On August 11th, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill barring grand juries from deciding on charges in cases involving police use of lethal force.  The thinking behind the bill was that grad juries are often “shrouded in scerecy” and enable prosecutors to escape accountability to the public.

published Mar 13th 2017, 3:30 pm, by Robert Burgess (Bloomberg View) — Saying the U.S. junk bond market has been hot would be an understatement. The securities gained slightly more than 17 percent last year as measured by the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Index, one of its best