A bill to provide for the reduction of inflation and the prevention of recession through regulation of the money supply.
Anti-Inflation and Anti-Recession Money Supply Control Act of 1979 - Amends the Federal Reserve Act to direct the Federal Open Market Committee to conduct its open-market operations to reduce the rate of annual growth in the money supply by specified increments to eventually establish a permanent annual growth rate between two and one-half and three and one-half percent by the fourth quarter of 1982.
Defines "money supply" as the sum of coin and currency held by the public outside the Treasury, Federal Reserve banks, and vaults of commercial banks plus funds held in any depository institution in demand deposits and savings deposits subject to automatic transfers or orders of withdrawal excluding domestic interbank deposits and deposits of the United States Government.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
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