Is the government manipulating the market?

Username999

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kinger101

It's not the government.  They just want you to think it's the government so you'll take your ire out at the ballot box, rather than seeing it for what it is.  A joint conspiracy between the Illuminati and the reptilian elite who really control this planet.

Hint......how many lizards have caught Covid........

CreditCardChris

They are not buying specific stocks, they are buying up everything, the entire index. 

Whether they are allowed to or not isn't important, the Federal reserve does what it wants and the public is kept out of the loop. The stock market was crashing and the Fed came in with trillions of dollars to stop the bleeding.

masonic

CreditCardChris said:

They are not buying specific stocks, they are buying up the index. 

Whether they are allowed to or not isn't important, the Federal reserve does what it wants and the public is kept out of the loop. The stock market was crashing and the Fed came in with trillions of dollars to stop the bleeding.

You can't just buy "the index". The index is just a hypothetical portfolio of companies. I very much doubt they are buying shares in every company listed in the S&P 500, or the Dow Jones, or indeed the Russell 3000, in proportion to their market capitalisation, and I doubt they are investing in an index tracker or other similar financial instrument so that the underlying shares are bought by a third party.

Prism

CreditCardChris said:

They are not buying specific stocks, they are buying up everything, the entire index. 

Whether they are allowed to or not isn't important, the Federal reserve does what it wants and the public is kept out of the loop. The stock market was crashing and the Fed came in with trillions of dollars to stop the bleeding.

Ah so its a conspiracy then since they are not officially doing it nor can. Its not like they could own the shares as we would all know. So how are they doing it? ETFs?

Username999

masonic said:

CreditCardChris said:

They are not buying specific stocks, they are buying up the index. 

Whether they are allowed to or not isn't important, the Federal reserve does what it wants and the public is kept out of the loop. The stock market was crashing and the Fed came in with trillions of dollars to stop the bleeding.

You can't just buy "the index". The index is just a hypothetical portfolio of companies. I very much doubt they are buying shares in every company listed in the S&P 500, or the Dow Jones, or indeed the Russell 3000, in proportion to their market capitalisation, and I doubt they are investing in an index tracker or other similar financial instrument so that the underlying shares are bought by a third party.

But you can buy the Index Futures and the cash index follows.
Where Goldman Sachs go, the herd follows, or used to.

Thrugelmir

CreditCardChris said:

They are not buying specific stocks, they are buying up everything, the entire index. 

Which index? There are over 25,000 listed companies in the USA . 

Username999

Thrugelmir said:

CreditCardChris said:

They are not buying specific stocks, they are buying up everything, the entire index. 

Which index? There are over 25,000 listed companies in the USA . 

Easily managed by any half decent computer algorithm.