Source: ZeroHedge

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.

In a special report released Tuesday, Biderman said the $6 trillion increase in U.S. stock-market capitalization since March can’t be explained by the usual sources of funds flowing into the market — such as mutual funds, direct retail investment, pension funds, hedge funds or foreign purchases.
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 1988 after the 1987 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.

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