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Unlike most finance contracts, swaps were conceived as contracts between equals — hence the labels “Party A” and “Party B” — either side can be long or short, or in- or out-of-the-money — clerical oversight can be a bitch — most swaps aren’t really contracts of equals — mistaken belief in bilaterality arguably concentrates, rather than dissipates, systemic risk.