This is the week the big Enron trial starts, the courtroom culmination of the 2001 corporate collapse that kicked off the now receding scandal wave. But relax—this column isn't going to be about legal strategies or What It All Means or the odds of former Enron top executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling's spending the rest of their lives in the pokey. That's been covered. And covered. Instead, we'll talk about how Congress has refused to adopt one simple reform that would eliminate the risk of having your retirement account collapse if your employer does. And how even though the government won't protect you from such a fate, you can protect yourself.
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