Fed's Evans: National economy is doing 'extremely well'

Chicago Fed President Charles Evans is now crossing the wires, delivering the key quotes, via Reuters, found below.

• At the moment the U.S. economy is doing quite well on employment, inflation.
• It's unusual for the president to comment on monetary policy, but asking why rates need to rise is a fair question.
• National economy is doing 'extremely well'.
• Sees U.S. economy growing 3.2 pct this year, to slow next year to 2.5 pct.
• Expects unemployment rate to bottom out at 3.5 pct, then to rise slowly to about 4.5 pct