Fed to fight inflation with fastest rate hikes in decades

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The Federal Reserve is poised this week to accelerate its most drastic steps in three decades to attack inflation by making it costlier to borrow—for a car, a home, a business deal, a credit card purchase. Yet with inflation having surged to a 40-year high, the Fed has come under extraordinary pressure to act aggressively

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