Why housing could boost confidence
MoneyWatch Week Ahead: Reports on housing should provide more clues as to the progress and pace of the nation's real estate recovery
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. She 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.
MoneyWatch Week Ahead: Reports on housing should provide more clues as to the progress and pace of the nation's real estate recovery
The real estate market is finally making (slow progress), raising lots of questions from listeners
Stocks at multi-year highs on the four-year anniversary of the worst week of the financial crisis makes it a perfect time to review investments
MoneyWatch Week Ahead: Four years after the height of the financial crisis, how is the economy doing?
On this week's radio show, we discuss how the Fed's latest decision will impact your financial life.
The Federal Reserve announced a third round of bond buying and other steps to boost U.S. economic growth
The new iPhone 5 could boost the U.S. economy by a sizable amount
MoneyWatch Week Ahead: After a disappointing jobs report, the Fed could announce new actions to stimulate economic growth this week
Guest Paddy Hirsch, author of a new book "Man vs. Markets" joins us to explain markets, bonds and more
The tepid jobs recovery continues amid a heated political campaign season; Economy added 96K jobs, unemployment drops to 8.1 percent
MoneyWatch Week Ahead: 125,000 new jobs were likely created in August and the unemployment rate remained at 8.3 percent
While you are shopping for your Labor Day BBQ, listeners were busy, taking control of their financial lives!
Federal Reserve Chairman stopped short of outlining specifics of any central bank actions to boost the weak economic recovery
What's better: a CFP or a CPA-PFS? What's the difference between a fee-based financial adviser and a fee-only one?
Time to address the salespeople, who say I wrongly disparaged annuities