How is the PBGC financed? Define defined benefit and defined contribution. What does backloaded mean?

As an employee of a large firm, you are given the choice between a defined benefit pension plan and a defined contribution pension plan. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

What are depository institutions and how are they related to the Fed? How were they traditionally segmented, and how are the segmented today?

Is a compulsory government-sponsored Social Security retirement annuity system as subject to adverse selection as a private insurance company that offers individual annuity contracts? Explain.

What is a depression and how it different from a deflation?

What is the neutrality assumption? How is the inflation rate measured?