We have met the enemy, and he is us.

Always one of my favorite old-time comic strip lines (Wikipedia that one for a nice diversion this morning). But also painfully true when considering the great undoing of America's continually evolving retirement experiment.

As profiled recently in the Washington Post, one of the biggest threats to participants' retirement plan success turns out to be those participants themselves, in the form of 401(k) loans.

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