©2015 Bloomberg News NUUPGX6KLVR9 (Bloomberg) — The biggest collapse in commodity prices in a generation is giving some investors the best returns of any asset class. Over the past 12 months, eight of the 10 best-performing U.S. exchange-traded funds were securities that benefited from declines in raw-material prices, with five

A new book called Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality maintains that Illinois is one of the most corrupt states in the union. And Chicago is “undoubtedly the most corrupt city in our nation,” says authors Dick Simpson and Thomas Gradel.   Sure, four of our last nine governors went to jail, but I