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Jill Schlesinger

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 28, 2026
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Jill Schlesinger

    Jill On Money: The Fed hikes — What it means to you (opens the original)

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    In a unanimous 12-0 decision, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point, to a target range of 3.75–4.00 percent. In explaining the first interest rate hike in three years, Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said that, “Inflation is the problem. Stable prices have been the problem for more than five and a half years.” While the inflation rate has improved from the peak seen in the COVID reopening surge, it has remained stubbornly high, running between 3.4 and 3.7

  2. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Jill Schlesinger

    Jill On Money: The Fed hikes — What it means to you (opens the original)

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    In a unanimous 12-0 decision, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point, to a target range of 3.75–4.00 percent. In explaining the first interest rate hike in three years, Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said that, “Inflation is the problem. Stable prices have been the problem for more than five and a half years.” While the inflation rate has improved from the peak seen in the COVID reopening surge, it has remained stubbornly high, running between 3.4 and 3.7

  3. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Jill Schlesinger

    Jill On Money: The Fed hikes — What it means to you (opens the original)

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    In a unanimous 12-0 decision, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point, to a target range of 3.75–4.00 percent. In explaining the first interest rate hike in three years, Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said that, “Inflation is the problem. Stable prices have been the problem for more than five and a half years.” While the inflation rate has improved from the peak seen in the COVID reopening surge, it has remained stubbornly high, running between 3.4 and 3.7

  4. Article · Sep 21, 2026 · Jill Schlesinger

    Jill On Money: A new pace to the AI race (opens the original)

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    It’s rare when financial news breaks over a weekend, but that is exactly what occurred recently. There have been on again, off again worries about the dangers of AI, but those concerns came to a head when 27-year-old Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon posted about his resignation from the company, accusing the firm and his previous employer, OpenAI, of not “acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” In response, on September 12, Ant

  5. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Jill Schlesinger

    Jill On Money: Are recent grads worse off today? (opens the original)

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    I was recently with a college friend (“Alex”) who pronounced that this generation of young college graduates has a problem: They are not willing to sacrifice in order to plow ahead amid a challenging economic environment. He said to me: “When I graduated in 1986, I had roommates, moved far outside of the city, which required a long commute, and just stopped spending!” You may be thinking, “OK, Boomer… you are just an old guy complaining about the younger generation.” Maybe, but Alex is familiar

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