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Jill Schlesinger, CFP®, is the Emmy and Gracie Award-winning business analyst for CBS News, where she translates complicated business and economic news into understandable, relatable topics for everyday viewers and listeners.
Schlesinger covers the economy, markets, investing and anything else with a dollar sign on TV, on the "Jill on Money" podcast, radio (including her nationally syndicated show, "Jill on Money," which won the 2018 and 2021 Gracie Award for Best National Talk Show), the web and her blog, "Jill on Money." Jill also won a 2018 Personal Finance Reporting Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA)/National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE).
Prior to her second career at CBS, Schlesinger spent 14 years as the co-owner and chief investment officer for an independent investment advisory firm. She began her career as a self-employed options trader on the Commodities Exchange of New York, following her graduation from Brown University.
Schlesinger's second book, "The Great Money Reset," was published in January 2023 by St. Martin's Press and her first book, "The Dumb Things Smart People Do With Their Money," was published in February 2019 by Ballantine Books.
Jill Schlesinger: Conversing with Your Inner Bull
Jill Schlesinger: Making Sense Out of Executive Compensation
Today is the 22nd anniversary of "Black Monday," when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 22.6% in one day. Over two decades later, people are waking up to another form of Black Monday--one where we are asked to make sense of the mind-blowing compensation that Wall Street garners, while Ameri...
While everyone has been focused on big bank earnings this week, I've been thinking about small banks. The FDIC expects that these institutions will continue to be under pressure from bad loans made in the boom times. Soon, we're going to see the 100th bank failure in the US. It may even occur this w...
Jill Schlesinger: Feels Like 1999 Again
What could be better than talking about Dow 10,000 with CBS Evening News pros Katie Couric and Anthony Mason? Answer: NOTHING! In prepping for the segment, it was clear that some recent trends reinforce an old truism of investing: people often chase performance. Of course it doesn't make sens...
Jill Schlesinger: Creating a Financial Game Plan
It's Monday, so that means it's time for EconWatch, a weekly segment hosted by CBSNews.com Editor In Chief Dan Farber with yours truly as the financial sidekick. Dan and I spoke about the major stories expected to occur this week. We dive into earnings for financial companies, then move onto the...
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Jill Schlesinger: Why are Stocks So Volatile in October?
The September employment report was a disappointment. Not terrible, like January's horrendous 741,000 jobs slashed in the US, but the economy lost almost 100,000 more jobs than anticipated. Drilling down into the report, there are some sobering stats to absorb: U-6 Employment (unemployed+part-ti...