- SEC Approves Changes to MSRB Guidance on Underwriters’ Disclosure Obligations.
- Why Is It So Hard to Access Performance and Financial Data in Munis?
- Muni-Bond Trading Evolves.
- Please note that we have been diligently covering developments concerning Opportunity Zones, such as this week’s Federal Tax Bulletin: Key Timing Issues for Qualified Opportunity Fund Investments and What You Need to Know About the New Opportunity Investment Draft Form. We have, however, been hesitant to include OZ items in the Highlights due to lack of certainty as to how much OZ work is being done by Public Finance practitioners, as opposed to those tax wankers. Options include, a) letting us know that you’d like to see OZ news highlighted, b) going directly to the Tax section of the newsletter/website for OZ info, and/or 3) making the newsletter available to your tax practitioners.
- And finally, This Will End Well is brought to us this week by In re Mathias H., in which the court was faced with the charming issue of whether or not to incarcerate a 12 year-old due to his repeated refusals to comply with the terms of his house arrest and ankle monitoring while awaiting trial on armed robbery charges. I think that we can all agree that we’re looking at a monster understatement when the parent of the year “told the court that respondent repeatedly failed to listen to her.” Indeed.