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Should We Defuse The Tax Bomb Facing Lawyers Who Are Enrolled In Income-Based Student Loan Repayment Plans, Gregory Crespi
Should We Defuse The Tax Bomb Facing Lawyers Who Are Enrolled In Income-Based Student Loan Repayment Plans, Gregory Crespi
South Carolina Law Review
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Countercyclical Regulation And Its Challenges
Countercyclical Regulation And Its Challenges
Patricia A. McCoy
New Kids On The Blockchain: How Bitcoin's Technology Could Reinvent The Stock Market, Larissa Lee
New Kids On The Blockchain: How Bitcoin's Technology Could Reinvent The Stock Market, Larissa Lee
Larissa Lee
Bitcoin is the first and most successful digital currency in the world. It is polarized in the news almost daily, with either glowing reviews of the many benefits of an alternative and international currency, or doomsday predictions of anarchy, deflation, and another tulip bubble.This Article focuses on the truly innovative aspect of Bitcoin—and that which has gone mostly unnoticed since its inception—the technological platform used to transfer Bitcoin from one party to another. This technology is called the Blockchain. The Blockchain eschews a bank or other middleman and allows parties to transfer funds directly to one another, using a peer-to-peer …
Lessons From The Efforts To Manage The Shift Away From Defined Benefit Plans To Defined Contribution Plans In Australia, The United Kingdom, And The United States, Elizabeth F. Brown
Lessons From The Efforts To Manage The Shift Away From Defined Benefit Plans To Defined Contribution Plans In Australia, The United Kingdom, And The United States, Elizabeth F. Brown
Elizabeth F Brown
This is an earlier version of this Article that was published in the 53 American Business Law Journal 315 (Summer 2016). Please see that journal for the final version of this Article. This Article examines what lessons may be learned from examining how Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States have tried to manage the shift away from defined benefit plans towards defined contribution plans. This shift has fundamentally changed the relationship between workers and the financial industry. While defined contribution plans provide employees with some advantages over defined benefit plans (e.g., portability, early vesting, greater autonomy), they also …