Top Federal Reserve official says inflation fight seems nearly won, with rate…

Photo: The Canadian Press FILE- The seal of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System is shown at the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington on Feb. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) A top Federal Reserve official said Tuesday that he is increasingly confident that inflation will continue falling this year back to the Fed's 2% target level, after two years of accelerating price spikes that hurt millions of American households. The official, Christopher Waller, an influential member of the Fed's Board of Governors, noted that inflation is slowing even as growth and hiring…