Latest articles by Knight Kiplinger
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Should Congress Dictate How Colleges Spend Their Endowments?
Business Costs & Regulation Charitable institutions with endowments—whether colleges, museums or hospitals—have a legal and moral obligation to honor the wishes of past donors.
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Should Restaurants Raise Prices and Eliminate Tips?
Business Costs & Regulation Saying goodbye to tipping would address fairness and income reporting concerns.
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Is It Fair for Websites to Lock Out Users of Ad Blockers?
Technology Web users must understand: There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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Remedying the Gender Pay Gap
Business Costs & Regulation A proposed federal rule designed to bring men's and women's pay in line would be an ineffective, burdensome mandate for employers.
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Why Can't I Give More to My Candidate's Campaign?
Politics There should be immediate disclosure of every donation to every political fund of any kind. That’s crucial for a healthy democracy.
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Splitting Time Between States to Pay Less Tax
taxes If you try to play it both ways, expect your old state to try to keep taxing you.
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R.I.P.: A Good Journalist, Good Boss, Good Father
business Journalist and philanthropist Austin H. Kiplinger led the Kiplinger Washington Editors for decades.
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Are Drug Prices Unethically High?
insurance It makes sense for the maker of a best-selling drug to lower the price gradually over the life of its patent.
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Do We Owe Students Two Free Years of College?
Paying for College Using taxpayer funds to help young Americans get post-secondary training of some sort would be money well spent. The challenge is figuring out how to do it most sensibly.
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Is This Lump-Sum Offer for Future Benefits Ethical?
Making Your Money Last Most structured-settlement sales involve the transfer of only a portion of future payments.
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Should You Have a Right to Delete Personal Online Information?
Technology Web sites should be obligated to comply with requests to remove information under certain circumstances.
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Why I'm Still Buying Stocks
Markets In 40+ years of patient investing, I haven't been disappointed yet.
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Should Tear-Down Plans Be Disclosed by Home Buyers?
real estate When a house for sale is worth more as a buildable lot than as a small, outdated residence, expect the highest bids to come from buyers intent on demolition.
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Is It Ethical for a Company to Terminate Its Pension Plan?
Employee Benefits The choice of a lump sum, rather than an annuity, could be a better financial choice for some retirees.
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Honoring End-of-Life Wishes
retirement Many doctors don’t ask patients about preferred scenarios, and they rarely talk about the palliative-care option in the first meeting.
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Is It Ethical to Go Without Auto Insurance?
insurance Auto insurance is mandatory in almost all states, but an estimated one in seven U.S. drivers don't carry it.
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Should Rich Immigrants Be Able to "Buy" Permanent Visas?
Business Costs & Regulation U.S. immigration policy should tilt toward admitting people who actually want to work in this country. An immigrant's wealth shouldn't by itself confer priority for citizenship.
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Scale Back These Discounts for Seniors
retirement Senior discounts given out by governments--if lacking a screen for income--constitute a broad subsidy of all elderly citizens by taxpayers, many of whom are younger and less well-off.
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Is This Hospice Pitch Legit?
insurance Because Medicare pays firms a flat rate of at least $150 per day per patient, a company bent on producing rising profits for investors has an incentive to enroll healthier patients.
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Browse in a Store, then Buy Online: Is This Fair?
Smart Buying If you've benefited from the physical presence of a local store to learn about products you're interested in, make your purchase there, too.
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Shouldn't Music Streaming Sites Pay Higher Royalties?
Business Costs & Regulation Recording artists both famous and obscure complain about the royalty of less than a penny that they receive for each play of their songs.
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Should Parents' Donations to Public Schools Be Limited?
spending Private donations could lead to educational inequality.
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When Is an Independent Contractor Really an Employee?
Business Costs & Regulation Many businesses, especially tech start-ups, fudge on legal distinctions to keep their labor costs low and cap their official employee count.
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Mergers Designed to Avoid U.S. Taxes: Is This Ethical?
Business Costs & Regulation Firms should stay and fight for comprehensive tax simplification that would lower the top C-corp rate.
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