Prove the Federal Reserve does not buy and sell stocks!?

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Flyboy, The most important information that anyone can have is the moves and the data from the Fed! That has been the market mover.

Why does anyone do anything?
Ans Because they can!? Ever heard of that? It is common sense!

If something can be done, it probably is.

Easy. Just check the Federal Reserve Balance sheet. http://www.federalreserve.gov/RELEASES/h41/Current/
The assets are all categorized and common stock is not one of them.

Still not sure? You can check every weekly balance sheets since 1997 if you like: http://www.federalreserve.gov/RELEASES/h41/

Where the heck did you get the idea that the FRS buys and sells stocks anyway?

Prove that space aliens don't buy and sell stock.

Prove that they can ?

First there is no mechinism for the Fed to do so, second when they can control the market by setting the Fed Fund Rate, discount rate and reserve ratios why would they?

prove they do sell stocks.

Very difficult to prove a negative; much easier to prove the positive. Why don't you do that for us?

We can always go off in weird directions based on a false premise.

There is no constitutional basis or nexus for the Fed to speculate in stocks. I'm not saying that would stop them, but there is no authority for them to buy/sell stocks or "invest" in anything. Our tax dollars are not supposed to be used for speculation; that's the law. Neither would it be a free market if they did so, and investors would look elsewhere.

If the Fed is speculating in the stock market, then there must have been some law passed that allows them to do so. For example, it states very clearly in the law that the Fed may purchase land for its own use. But the nexus, or purpose, must exist first.

A few hundred points, or thousand points either direction in the Dow is not a national crisis or security concern.

Because the Fed prints our paper money, stores it, doles it out, sets interest rates, etc., they are allowed to support it, yet again, the nexus is great.

What does your greatest imagination of common sense tell you about the nexus or connection with the stock market?

Just because you can rob a bank, does not mean you should, or would, or do. There are laws against such things. Although much too powerful, the Fed is also constrained by law.

When the Fed wants to cheat us, or rob us, or imprison us, they simply pass a law to do so, and are blatantly open about their aggressive use of power, but they remain within the law. Where is the law allowing them to speculate openly in the markets?

Qualify your statement first, then ask the question. So far, you have not established a debatable premise, except in your own imagination you call common sense.
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"Never waste your time arguing with an idiot."

Hmm...another case of guilty until proven innocent.

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