Worried about the state of your 401K? We all are. But there’s no need to panic. Chances are, you don’t need to use all of your 401K savings at once. If you take the right steps, your 401K investments will have a chance to recover. Below are five simple steps to help you rescue your 401K:...

Ready to pay more in airline fees, thanks to government sloth? The Economist reports on an upcoming increase in aviation fees: …if the American government’s “Aviation Passenger Security Fee”, currently at $2.50 for each leg of travel, is already annoying you, the Obama admini...

Do you ever wish that you had a cool job title, even if the work itself wasn’t that great? If you swing two of the jobs below, you could be a female groom, a nude trainer, and work at Doggie Style. You can’t beat that: 1. Dublin: Jobs at Doggie Style Mobile Washing & Grooming We are...

The Fed will launch the Asset Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) to inspire US consumers to go into more debt, with the hopes of sparking life into the economy. MarketWatch reports: A new lending program from the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury could generate up to $1 trillion in loans for...

(John & Tania) 1. How’d you come up with the idea for Unemploymentality? What was the context, what happened, why this blog, now? Tania and I were work friends and laid off on the same day. A week or so later we found ourselves obsessing over the details of what had happened. Tania and I ...

After reading about plastic surgery for the dead, we decided to remind everyone that there are a million good ways to spend $5,000. The dumb and expensive procedures below are not among them: Warning: Post contains mature content 8. Calf implants If the calf raise at the gym doesn’t work, you can ...

When coffee doesn’t sell, add a shot of sex. According to the people behind Maine’s Grand View Coffee Shop, bare chests will put a lagging town back on the map. Jaunted reports: Yesterday, The Grand View Topless Coffee Shop located in Vassalboro, Maine, held its grand opening. Only adult...

The top topic on Twitter this morning was that Gmail was down Were you a member of the panicked masses who could not handle today’s GMail problems? I certainly was. I spent hours obsessively refreshing the GMail site, refusing to believe that GMail–my GMail–wasn’t working. No...

(Image: Picasaweb user Chris) Microsoft employees have been either given too much or too little money in their severance checks–and Microsoft wants the difference back. From TechCrunch: Microsoft has inadvertently overpaid severance to some of its recently laid off employees, and is now asking...

The new Obama housing plan, announced today, will help homeowners refinance loans and lower monthly payments. Bloomberg reports: U.S. President Barack Obama pledged $275 billion to a program that includes cutting mortgage payments for as many as 9 million struggling homeowners and expanding the role...