Jill On Money: The great reshuffle
By Jill Schlesinger The Great Resignation is so 2021. This year, we should replace that term with a new one,…
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Jill On Money: Tax season is now open
By Jill Schlesinger As we start the third tax season of the COVID-19 era, I advise you to take a…
Jill On Money: What’s new for 2022?
By Jill Schlesinger It may have taken a brutal twenty-two months of a pandemic to do it, but when it…
Jill On Money: The best books of 2021
By Jill Schlesinger One of the coolest parts of my job is interviewing authors of books that pique my interest–and…
Jill On Money: The real estate conundrum: No houses
By Jill Schlesinger
A year ago, the nation's housing market, like the rest of the economy, went into a deep, COVID-induced freeze. By the summer, the real estate industry had adjusted to socially distanced open houses and buyers were trying to get ahead of what would become a long year of work and school from home.
Jill On Money: Women working 5 to 9
By Jill Schlesinger
A year of COVID-19 has devastated the US labor market. Despite recouping more than half of the 22 million jobs that vanished during the past twelve months–and a better-than-expected February report, the country still has 9.5 million fewer jobs (6.2%) than the pre-pandemic level a year ago.
Jill on Money: Year end money moves amid COVID-19
By Jill Schlesinger
In most years, writing a year-end column is a snap, but 2020 is not most years. As a result, I will be writing a few columns with action items to consider.
Jill on Money: A snapshot of the post-election economy
By Jill Schlesinger
On November 8, U.S. news outlets called the 2020 election, but investors had already voted with their money. After the worst week since March, stocks soared election week and recouped all of the previous week's losses–and then some. The S&P 500 soared 7.3% the best presidential election week since the 1932 election.
Jill on Money: Beware of these home buying hurdles
By Jill Schlesinger
A surprising star has emerged from the pandemic-induced recession: the housing market. After freezing up in March and April, realtors, buyers and sellers began adapting to a new reality: we are spending a lot more time in our dwellings, and some of us are not happy with where we currently live. Add to that fact, that there are not enough houses for sale — and that mortgage interest rates have cratered, and you may notice that there is a full-fledged frenzy going on in some housing markets around the country.
Jill on Money: The stock market is NOT the economy
By Jill Schlesinger
“How can the stock market go up, while the economy is still struggling to recover amid the pandemic?” The answer is that the stock market is not the economy and vice versa.