Charles Biderman, chief executive of TrimTabs Investment Research, is the latest and most credible person to charge that the Federal Reserve and the Treasury in league with top Wall Street firms is rigging the stock market on a daily basis.

It's hard to believe that the Fed could keep such a conspiracy a secret for 20 years or more. Read more about Biderman's theory. The only logical explanation for the extent of the rally, he suggested, is secret buying by a government committee known colloquially as the Plunge Protection Team.

It's like the dark matter that astrophysicists conjecture must be there, even if we can't detect it. The PPT was established by President Ronald Reagan in after the stock crash to coordinate the government's response to market meltdowns. It consists of the Fed chairman, the Treasury secretary, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Biderman acknowledged that he had no direct evidence that the Fed and other agencies have intervened in the stock market.

But he worried about what will happen to the market if the PPT has been buying and suddenly stops. The Fed, of course, is a major player in the fixed-income markets, buying and selling billions in Treasurys, agency bonds and mortgage-backed securities. It's taken on hundreds of billions in assets from Bear Stearns, American International Group Inc. Presumably, all of those positions are duly reported by the central bank each week. But the Ppt stock market manipulation define has never said it is buying equities or equity futures.

Doing so would likely violate the Federal Reserve's investment policies, and could violate federal hindi typing work at home in udaipur if not disclosed properly. Aside from the legal issues, the PPT would have operational constraints.

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An operation big enough to manipulate markets for months on end would be big enough to develop leaks. Yet Biderman's accusation of PPT market manipulation is another argument in favor of a complete public audit of the Fed's books. As any casual reader of this site's community boards knows, there is a widespread belief that the Ppt stock market manipulation define does manipulate stock prices on a daily basis to enrich its pals and screw individual investors.

It would be useful to prove them wrong. And if they are right, the Nsw easter trading laws should be put out of business.

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