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Knight Austin Kiplinger () (born February 24, 1948) is an economic journalist who heads the Kiplinger financial media company in Washington, D.C., publishers of business forecasts and personal finance advice. He serves as editor in chief of all its publications, including the weekly ''Kiplinger Letter'', monthly ''Kiplinger's Personal Finance'' magazine and daily Kiplinger.com. He writes a bimonthly column on financial matters in the magazine and also writes its monthly "Money & Ethics" feature, which explores ethical dilemmas in consumer affairs, business, and family relations. In the civic realm, Kiplinger is active in nonprofit governance and philanthropy, especially in the fields of secondary education, choral music, and historic preservation. He is a frequent guest on radio and TV programs (on NPR, CNN, Fox and CNBC, among others) and has appeared on "The Diane Rehm Show", "Charlie Rose Show", "The Today Show", "CBS This Morning," and “Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser”. He is an occasional commentator on "Marketplace," the daily business report heard on public radio stations nationwide. As a public speaker, Kiplinger frequently addresses audiences of corporate and civic leaders, on such topics as the economic outlook, politics, investing and ethical business management. The closely held company he heads, Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc., has been honored several times with national ethics awards for its progressive employee relations and business integrity.〔Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc. was one of three national winners of the 2001 American Business Ethics Award, of the Society of Financial Service Professionals (http://www.financialpro.org), and it was recognized in 2007 and 2008 as “one of America’s most ethical companies” by ''Ethisphere Magazine'' (Q2, 2007 issue, http://www.ethisphere.com);〕 Kiplinger is the co-author and editor of several books, including ''World Boom Ahead'' (1998), with David Koenig and the staff of ''The Kiplinger Letter''; ''America in the Global '90s'' (1989), with Jack Kiesner, Austin Kiplinger (his father) and ''The Kiplinger Letter'' staff; ''The New American Boom'' (1986), with Sidney Levy and the staff of ''The Kiplinger Letter''; and ''Washington Now'' (1975), with Austin Kiplinger. == Beliefs and philosophy == In his weekly ''Kiplinger Letter'', he and his staff attempt to forecast economic and legislative outcomes in a dispassionate, nonpartisan way, without regard to their own or their readers’ wishes. As a columnist, in his monthly ''Personal Finance'' magazine, and as a public speaker, Kiplinger shows a fundamental preference for free markets tempered by vigilant shareholders and government watchdogs; free global movement of goods, capital and registered guest workers; the economic empowerment of women worldwide; microcredit for promoting entrepreneurship and alleviating poverty in less-developed nations; employee profit sharing; and a commitment to corporate integrity. Kiplinger considers himself an economic conservative and social liberal (with a libertarian streak), favoring individual responsibility, private philanthropy, a limited U.S. foreign policy, and minimal government intrusion in private personal interactions.〔KAK column, “A New Economic Agenda,” (11/2008, http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2008/11/knight_kiplinger.html), and forecasts in his book World Boom Ahead (1998); for KAK’s views on the importance of democratic self-determination, effective childrearing, the empowerment of women and other issues, see his 1999 interview in A Perfect World: Words and Paintings by over 50 of America’s Most Powerful People (collected by Debra Trione; 2002, Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, MO); See also “Eight Keys to Financial Security” KAK column, 1997 and updated 2008, http://kiplinger.com/features/archives/2006/12/knightkeys.html〕 He believes that public shareholders should take a more-active role in overseeing the integrity, business practices and executive compensation of the companies they own. Writing and speaking extensively on business ethics, Kiplinger is critical of lavish executive compensation and a short-run, bottom-line fixation that leads businesses to disrespect their employees and fail to plan for future success.〔“The CEO’s Role in Creating an Ethical Corporate Culture,” chapter by KAK in ''Developing a Corporate Ethics Policy: Leading CEOs on Building a Culture of Trust, Addressing Ethical Dilemmas, and Ensuring Company Consistency'' (2009, Aspatore Books, Thomson Reuters, Boston, Mass.)〕 He believes that layoffs should be a last resort, done not to maintain a declining but still-comfortable profit margin, but only to enable an unprofitable business to survive an exceptionally long and deep slump. Senior executives should voluntarily cut their own pay and benefits, he believes, before asking the same of their employees. In good times, he writes, companies should share their profits and grants of stock options with all employees, from top to bottom, and a larger share should go to the rank-and-file collectively than to senior management.〔KAK’s “Money & Ethics” columns, http://www.Kiplinger.com, and Kiplinger company profile, “Times change, But Kiplinger Style Hasn’t,” Washington Business section of ''The Washington Post'', June 15, 1987〕 On journalism ethics,〔KAK’s article on journalistic and media ethics, “Who’s Watching the Watchdog?” 2005, Ethics Resource Center, Washington, D.C. (http://www.ethics.org)〕 Kiplinger has criticized the growing dependence of the profession on advertisers and the declining reliance on subscriber revenues, a situation which he feels increases the commercial pressure on journalists to pull punches and favor advertisers in their writing. In his columns and speeches on personal finances, Kiplinger champions simple living, with a high savings rate (at least 10% of gross income per year), limited use of debt (only for major needs such as a home or college education), and generous charitable giving.〔KAK’s column “Eight Keys to Financial Security” (http://kiplinger.com/features/archives/2006/12/knightkeys.html, 1997, updated 12/2008)〕 “Let others live the high life now and figure that the future will take care of itself. () will not live above his means—end of discussion,” wrote a New York Times interviewer in 2004.〔“At Lunch with Knight A. Kiplinger, by Claudia H. Deutsch, ''New York Times'', Feb. 1, 2004 (www.nytimes.com)〕 In 1993, Kiplinger said of the personal finance magazine he publishes, “We are a magazine for these more-serious times, more-careful times. We are a magazine of planning, of deferred gratification rather than instant gratification.”〔“Building on Kiplinger’s Traditions,” Washington Business section of ''The Washington Post'', June 14, 1993〕 He favors long-term stock, bond and real estate investing, with an asset allocation appropriate to one’s age and income, and he urges his readers to eschew short-term speculation, such as day-trading.〔KAK’s column “An investor’s Manifesto,” (6/2009, http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2009/06/knight_kiplinger.html);〕 “The Kiplinger family has made slow-but-steady a successful investment mantra. When the tortoise races the hare, back the tortoise,” the New York Times wrote.〔Deutsch, ''NYT'', 2/1/04〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Knight Kiplinger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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