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According to Dallas Fed's Kaplan, America has an over abundance of jobs and needs to attract wanton amount of migrants in order to fill the insatiable demand for cheap labor, aka 'skills gap.'

While on one hand, Kaplan ceded to the notion that globalization was a primary reason for price deflation and stagnant growth, he also blamed America's aging demographics for lackluster growth.

One by one over the past several months, Europe's largest investment banks have each rolled out their new pricing models detailing how they'll charge for research in 2018 once the new MiFID II regulations go into effect.  Pricing strategies have varied from expensive all-in packages costing nearly $500,000 a year to pay-as-you-go plans that charge for each research report individually.  Here are a couple of recent examples:

Authored by A.Z.Mohamed via The Gatestone Institute,

According to new research from Gallup, many countries on the frontlines of Europe's migration crisis are among the least-accepting countries worldwide for migrants.

Statista's Nial McCarthy notes that the research found that Macedonia, Montenegro, Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia and Croatia which are all along the Balkan route for asylum seekers recorded the lowest scores for accepting migrants.

You will find more statistics at Statista

Authored by Joe Withrow via InternationalMan.com,

Eli’s mother was dying from cancer.

Eli is 33 years old. He owns a shoe store in Caracas, Venezuela. His mother has bone cancer.

Venezuela’s currency is the bolivar. It lost 62% of its purchasing power in February. (It lost 67% the month before that.)

That means prices for everything (food, water, and utilities) increased 62% over a month.

Eli couldn’t afford his mom’s medication. So he turned to bitcoin.