Please answer this 3 questions:

1. According to the final estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the United States GDP growth rate for the fourth quarter of 2022 was ____________%.
2. Over the past year, from January 2022 to January 2023, how much did the CPI rise? ____________________%
3. In the articles and notes you have read, you know that the Federal Reserve, along with other nations' central banks, like the Reserve Bank of Australia, in the article above, have been raising interest rates. Explain why all of these banks have been raising interest rates.