Encyclopedia of Municipal Bonds

Acknowledgments ix
 
Introduction xiii
 
A 1
 
ability to pay acceleration additional bonds test advance refunding advertised sale "All bonds go to heaven" Ambac AMT appropriation arbitrage Arkansas Default of 1933 auction-rate securities auction sale authorities
 
B 14
 
bank-qualified basis points Baum pools Bell, California, pay scandal bid rigging black-box deals blind pools Blue List BOCES bond anticipation notes bond banks The Bond Buyer Bond Buyer indexes bond counsel "Bond Daddies" bond purchase agreement bond year book-entry-only system Bradford zeroes Build America Bonds
 
C 28
 
CAFR calls Canadian interest cost capital appreciation bond capital gains certificates of participation Chapter 9 charter schools closed-end funds cogeneration projects colleges and universities community development districts competitive sale computers constitutional protection of tax-exemption convention centers CPI-linked municipals cram-down credit default swaps credit enhancement current refunding CUSIP
 
D 43
 
"Deadly Sins" debt per capita default Denver International Airport Dillon's rule dirt bonds disclosure Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act Mrs. Dodge
 
E 52
 
elections EMMA escrow churning escrowed to maturity
 
F 63
 
feasibility studies Fed Flow of Funds report Ferber trial 50 percent coupon financial advisers fiscal year 501(c)(3) issuers flipping floaters/inverse floaters flow control
 
G 71
 
garbage gas prepayment bonds GASB general obligation GFOA golf courses government census guaranteed investment contracts
 
H 78
 
Hammersmith Heartland fund implosion house museums
 
I 84
 
"Ideas in public finance blow in from the West" indenture Indian tribes industrial development bonds initiative and referendum insider trading insurance interest inverse floaters investment pools issue price issuer

Joe Mysak joined The Bond Buyer in 1981 as a copy editor and learned about municipal bonds from the ground up, eventually rising to editor and publisher of the newspaper. In 1994, he founded a series of municipal market-related biweekly newsletters for the Interest Rate Publishing Corporation. In 1999, Mysak joined Bloomberg News as a columnist. He is also the author of the book Handbook for Muni-Bond Issuers.