Who thinks the FED ‘investing’ in the stock markets Is a good idea? This I getting floated.
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/beyond-rate-cuts-8-non-traditional-federal-reserve-and-government-tools-to-fight-coronavirus-economic-ruin-1028951703
Federal Reserve and Entities Can Buy Stocks
The U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) balance sheet had worked itself down to about $3.75 billion in August of 2019, after peaking above $4.5 trillion back in 2014 and 2015 after quantitative easing measures went beyond just managing interest rates. The size of the Fed's balance sheet has come back up to nearly $4.2 trillion in February of 2020. Rather than solely buying Treasury notes and bonds, government agencies and mortgage-backed securities this time around, what if the Fed was more creative with asset purchases?
Central banks in Europe have bought corporate bonds, and Bloomberg noted in 2019 that the Bank of Japan and central banks in Switzerland and Israel have purchased equities in the past. With the widespread reporting of the "Plunge Protection Team," would anyone really be surprised if stocks started to get a new mystery buyer?
Beyond simply buying stocks and then having to dump them in the future, there are "other means" that could be considered. There have been calls in the past that the money put into Social Security should have at least some equity market allocations.