Latest articles by Knight Kiplinger
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Is Cash an Appropriate Wedding Gift?
spending The ethics of giving cash as a wedding gift, and what you could do as an alternative if you're not a fan.
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Celebrating 100 Years of The Kiplinger Letter
Editor emeritus Knight Kiplinger reflects on an enduring legacy of clear-eyed, unbiased journalism.
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Should All Student Debt Be Forgiven?
student loans My favorite reform would be making the repayment of all student loans proportional to the borrower’s future earnings.
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Should Lenders Mail Unsolicited Checks to Potential Borrowers?
credit & debt When it comes to preying on weak credit risks, it looks like Wall Street is at it again.
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Do Adult Children Have an Obligation to Support Needy Parents?
savings Even if some siblings can afford to help more than others, no one should shirk the obligation to assist in some way -- financial or otherwise.
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Should Nondisclosure Agreements Be Banned in Sexual Harassment Settlements?
Business Costs & Regulation Knight Kiplinger offers his advice on how companies can improve their handling of harassment problems.
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How Can the Approval Process for New Drugs Be Speeded Up?
investing There are many reform proposals, including some from free-market think tanks.
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Are Incentives to Lure New Businesses Fair to Current Employers?
Business Costs & Regulation Job growth and spending at an existing firm should be worth just as much in incentives as new jobs and capital investment brought in from outside.
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Should Ethics Determine Who You Do Business With?
Smart Buying Consumers seeking to do business only with ethical companies should ask these questions.
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Should Colleges Use Collection Agencies for Overdue Student Bills?
college Colleges have many potent options for getting students to square their accounts.
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Hold Soda Makers to Account for Health Woes?
Business Costs & Regulation A strong case can be made that it’s unethical for companies to target the very customers who shouldn’t be heavy consumers of a given product.
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Ways to Protect Borrowers From Predatory Home Lending
real estate Land contracts drain low-income communities of resources.
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Should Employers Be Barred From Asking Job Applicants What They Earn?
business The effort to ban the “What are you earning?” question is part of a broader movement to make all compensation totally transparent.
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Should Minor-League Ballplayers Get a Big Pay Raise?
business Pro athletes must keep their bodies and skills in shape 12 months a year, and all should be paid accordingly.
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Should Colleges Give Preference to Applicants From Wealthy Families?
college Every admitted student should meet the college’s basic academic qualifications.
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What Should Doctors and Drugmakers Do to Stop Painkiller Addiction?
business Physicians and dentists need mandatory pain-management training, starting in medical and dental schools and continuing thereafter.
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10 Timeless Financial Tips From Knight Kiplinger
savings Sage advice about saving, spending and investing never goes out of style.
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How Should I Handle a Tax Windfall That I Don't Want?
taxes If getting a huge windfall from impending tax cuts has you feeling guilty, here are some options.
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Knight Kiplinger's 8 Keys to Financial Security
Financial Planning Over many years of publishing Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, my colleagues and I have built up a deep institutional memory of personal-finance wisdom, and I'd like to share some of it with you.
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How Can We Discourage Bogus News Stories?
Politics Only the big online advertising networks can cut off the lifeblood and reduce the financial incentive to create phony stories.
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Should Casinos Court Senior Citizens?
spending State gaming commissions, which regulate casinos, have an ethical obligation to crack down on predatory marketing to the elderly. But so far, most don’t seem interested.
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Should Bank Customers Be Allowed to File Class-Action Suits?
credit & debt Of the $185 million in the Wells Fargo settlement, most will go to government agencies as penalties. Very little will go to customers.
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Should My Neighbor Be Allowed to Turn His House Into a Short-Term Rental?
real estate It's a debate that is raging in all of America’s major cities.
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Should a Criminal Record Rule Out a Job Applicant?
business The goal is an appropriate balance between fairness to job applicants and the employer’s right—indeed, legal obligation—to create a workplace that is safe for employees, customers and business interests.
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