Is The U.S. Government Buying Stocks? | zero hedge

Is The U.S. Government Buying Stocks? | zero hedge

The Fed (or Treasury) could even go as far as directly intervening in the stock market via direct purchases of equities as a way to boost falling equity prices. Some of such policy actions seem extreme but they were in the playbook that Governor Bernanke described in his 2002 speech on how to avoid deflation.