WASHINGTON: The US Federal Reserve this week will raise the key interest rate for the second time in 2018, working to stay one step ahead of inflation.

A hiring spree in May helped drive the unemployment rate down to levels eerily similar to those recorded almost 50 years ago — just before an era of high inflation and economic pain that many Americans still recall with a shudder.

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