William Birdthistle

William Birdthistle is a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law and the author of Empire of the Fund: The Way We Save Now (Oxford University Press, 2016).

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The 401(k) Is Turning 40 Years Old. It’s Past Time We Change How Americans Save for Retirement

The provision that gives the name of America’s most popular retirement savings plan, section 401(k), will turn 40 this Tuesday. And in its first four decades, the 401(k) has lived an unexpectedly glamorous life. At...

By William Birdthistle and Daniel Hemel
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