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Weight Watchers For Your Money: Mastercard's New Tool

Updated on: August 17, 2010 / 11:44 AM EDT / MoneyWatch

As soon as I read this Ron Lieber article over the weekend, I knew that I would talk about it on the air with CBS3. And as lifetime member of Weight Watchers (guess what happens when you stop playing two sports in your junior year of college and eat your way through Europe?), I couldn't pass up the opportunity to use the analogy of diet when talking about spending.

Jill Schlesinger

Jill Schlesinger, CFP® is the Emmy-nominated business analyst for CBS News. She covers the economy, markets, investing and anything else with a dollar sign on TV, radio (including her nationally syndicated radio show), the web and her blog, "Jill on Money." Prior to her second career at CBS, Jill 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.

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