Brazen:Big Banks, Swap Mania and the Fallout
A Rashad Abdel-khalik
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A Rashad Abdel-khalik: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
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Abstract:
For nearly two decades, countless non-profits in the U.S. were forced to pay big banks enormous sums of money to settle or terminate bilateral contracts known as Interest Rate Swaps (IRSs). Officials at non-profits had entered into these costly contracts unaware that each contract has only one winner, and that big banks did not intend to be the losers.
Keywords: Swaps; Interest Rate Swap; Unconscionable Contracting; Termination Penalties; Embedded Costs; Paying for Nothing; Gambling; ISDA; Master Agreement; Deceit; Inadequate Disclosure; Hidden Costs; Zero Sum Game; Wealth Transfer; Paper Chasing Paper; Floating Rate; Synthetic Rate; Credit Risk; Demonstrations; Water Shut Off; Union Class Action Suit; The LIBOR Scandal; Non-Profit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E43 E44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
ISBN: 9789813275560
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Chapters in this book:
- Ch 1 What Is This Book All About? , pp 1-57

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- Ch 2 Carol Loomis Described Four Derivatives’ Sins: Lies, Leverage, Ignorance, and Arrogance , pp 59-71

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- Ch 3 The Saga of Jefferson County, Alabama, & JPMorgan Chase , pp 75-98

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- Ch 4 Big Banks Took Nearly $900 million from Detroit for Terminating Swaps & Gave back Nothing , pp 99-121

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- Ch 5 The City of Brotherly Love Drowned in the Eastern Swap Sinkhole , pp 123-140

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- Ch 6 The Heart of America and Windy City Handed Its Compass to the Banking Cartel , pp 141-151

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- Ch 7 Tales of Two Small Cities , pp 153-159

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- Ch 8 The State of Illinois and Other Swap Gorillas , pp 163-170

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- Ch 9 The State of New Jersey: The Pandora’s Box of Interest Rate Swaps Cost Nearly $1.5 Billion , pp 171-177

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- Ch 10 The Empire State Doctored Interest Rate Swap Gains Artfully , pp 179-184

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- Ch 11 Jack Wagner’s Mission to Rescue Pennsylvania from the $17.4 Billion Derivatives Mess , pp 187-193

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- Ch 12 The School District of Philadelphia Dismissed Staff to Save Money to Pay for Swaps , pp 195-200

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- Ch 13 Two Other Special Cases in Pennsylvania Schools , pp 201-208

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- Ch 14 Chicago Public Schools Dismissed Staff and Borrowed at High Interest Rates to Pay for Interest-Rate Swaps , pp 209-225

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- Ch 15 Denver Public Schools: Paid High Price for the Advice of Unwitting Experts , pp 227-231

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- Ch 16 The Flagship of the Tar Heel State Kept Dipping into the Same Losing Swap Well , pp 235-246

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- Ch 17 The MSU Spartans Kept On Swapping Their Money for Nothing , pp 247-251

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- Ch 18 Interest-Rate Swaps Cost Harvard More Than $1.47 Billion , pp 253-259

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- Ch 19 The University of Texas System: A Large State-Run Hedge-Fund-Like in Austin , pp 261-269

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- Ch 20 Indiana University Health: A Case of Derivatives Abuse from the Midwest , pp 273-280

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- Ch 21 The University of California Health System: A Case of Derivatives Abuse from the West , pp 281-290

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- Ch 22 Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation: A Case of Derivatives Abuse from the East , pp 291-296

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- Ch 23 The University of Florida Shands Hospital: A Case of Derivatives Abuse from the South , pp 297-301

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- Ch 24 The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System , pp 303-310

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- Ch 25 Dignity Health Holds A Bigger Bag of IOUs to the Banking Cartel , pp 311-317

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- Ch 26 Texas Methodist Hospitals Did Not Escape Big Banks’ Vise , pp 319-323

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- Ch 27 With Swaps, Riding the Gravy Train Is Expensive , pp 327-329

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- Ch 28 The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority Fell into the Eastern Swap Sinkhole , pp 331-338

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- Ch 29 The Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) Fell into the Western Swap Sinkhole , pp 339-346

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- Ch 30 The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Joined the Eastern Swap Sinkhole , pp 347-352

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- Ch 31 A Couple of Other Port Authorities , pp 353-356

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- Ch 32 The London Connection: London Average Interest Rate (LIBOR) , pp 361-366

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- Ch 33 The Discovery of Cheating , pp 367-393

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- Ch 34 Are Interest Rate Swaps with Nonprofit Entities Unconscionable Contracts? , pp 397-426

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- Ch 35 Epilogue , pp 427-437

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- Ch 36 APPENDICES , pp 439-479

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