The strategy the central bank adopts to fight the last mile of inflation has big, potentially painful implications for consumers, the markets and the economy

Screens on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange in December show Fed Chair Jerome Powell. ANDREW KELLY/REUTERS
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