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Humphrey-Hawkins Act
Humphrey-Hawkins Act definition - finance
Also known as the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act
of 1978. Legislation that required the Federal Reserve to set one-year target
ranges for money supply growth and to report those targets twice a year to
Congress. The legislation also required the chairman of the Federal Reserve to
speak to Congress on the state of the economy twice a year in what was called
the Humphrey-Hawkins report. That legislation expired in 2000 and the Fed said
it would no longer set money supply growth targets. Indeed, the use of money
supply growth targets had ceased through much of the 1990s. Even though the
Federal Reserve chairman is no longer required to address Congress, that
practice has continued; he typically goes before Congress in January or
February and July.
Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
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