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The Midwestern city of Olathe became a global magnet for tech talent thanks to plentiful jobs, cheap housing, and good schools. Then a local opened fire on a pair of Indian-born engineers, injuring one and killing the other. The shooting was one in a string of recent attacks against Indians in the U.S., which, paired with Trump’s rhetoric on immigration and crackdown on H1-B visas, has caused many to question their prospects in a time of escalating nativism.

The Fed’s plan for gradual rate increases is starting to look complacent, and there is a strengthening case for a faster pace of hikes. The central bank's outlook could abruptly shift if global growth gains momentum and U.S. unemployment sinks much lower.

Hedge funds are facing a U.S. criminal probe over bond valuations. Prosecutors are investigating one of Wall Street’s darkest markets, focusing on hedge funds suspected of inflating the value of debt securities in their portfolios to juice the fees they collect.

The heroin business is booming in America. As states and doctors make it tougher to get prescription painkillers, many addicts are turning to street drugs for their fix. With persistent demand and increasingly wide profit margins, 2017 is shaping up to be the most profitable year ever for drug cartels peddling heroin.

Student loans just got more expensive. The U.S. government is raising prices for new student debt, adding hundreds of dollars to the cost of the typical federal college loan. For undergraduates, it could amount to nearly a 20 percent increase in interest charges.

The crop that ate America. Corn has always been a mainstay of U.S. agriculture, but its increasing profitability has driven up corn’s share of total production, while grains such as wheat and oats have steadily fallen. This has locked farmers to the rises and falls of one crop, as both domestic and export markets grow more and more tied to the dominant U.S. grain.

The bike industry has a long history of hyping new niche machines, and gravel bikes are the latest example. The enthusiasm for the new models comes from a swelling interest in gravel ride events themselves. Bloomberg’s Josh Petri tests a bikeBloomberg’s Josh Petri tests a bike that’s not designed for the mountain or the road, but can handle almost anything.