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Were you wondering what Alan Greenspan thinks about the outlook for monetary policy across the globe?

Neither were we, but Bloomberg was and Tom Keene and Mike McKee got the “privilege” of sitting down with the “maestro” on Monday afternoon to discuss a variety of topics including NIRP, which Greenspan says “warps investment behavior.”

While he isn’t willing to go so far as to condemn negative rates as “dangerous,” he does say the global race to the proverbial Keynesian bottom is “counterproductive.”

Submitted by Nima Gholam Ali Pour via The Gatestone Institute,

• That Sweden is a "humanitarian superpower" is a myth that needs exposing once and for all. The recent migration wave to Sweden has made some people poor and others very, very rich. It is all about money, and it is about winners and losers.

• If liberal journalists outside Sweden believe that rape is humanitarian, then Sweden has a humanitarian migration policy.

Last week, Larry Summers took on the $100 bill.

Now, he’s taking aim at the man who, if it were up to him, would be on that banknote. In a new Op-Ed for The Washington Post, Summers calls Donald Trump “the greatest present threat to the prosperity and security of the United States.”

Following the weakness in global PMIs, and yesterday's Chicago PMI collapse, US Markit Manufacturing PMI dropped to cycle lows at 51.3 from 52.5 (very slightly better than expectations of 51.2) with job growth at 5-month lows, production at slowest in 28 months, and work backlogs tumbling to the lowest since Sept 2009.

This past Friday morning, when the tremendous bear market rally finally fizzled after an initial spike higher following by gradual daylong selling which closed the market in the red, following by another red close on Monday, we warned the bulls early that the "Rally is in Jeopardy" for one simple reason: Gartman had covered his shorts. 

As a reminder, this is what he the perennial CNBC guest said early on Friday morning: