Kiplinger  Kiplinger ( ) is an American publisher of business forecasts and personal finance advice which is a subsidiary of Dennis Publishing. Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc., was a closely held company managed for more than nine decades by three generations of the Kiplinger family, until its sale in February 2019 to Dennis Publishing, a U.K.-based media company. Kiplinger (1891–1967), a former AP economics reporter, founded the eponymous Washington, D.C. company in 1920. With his son Austin H. Kiplinger (1918–2015) he co-founded Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine in 1947. Grandson Knight A. Kiplinger continued the dynasty until the 2019 sale to Dennis Publishing. Its best-known publications are "The Kiplinger Letter", a weekly business and economic forecasting periodical for people in management, and the monthly "Kiplinger's Personal Finance" magazine. Kiplinger also provides custom publishing services to a variety of companies and associations. Kiplinger answers the queries of its readers as a regular feature of their subscriptions, filling requests for additional information on any subject its publications covers, by phone, mail or email. The Kiplinger Letter is a four-page weekly that tries to alert its clients to what is likely to happen in business and the economy, legislation and regulation in Washington and the state, demographics, technology, world affairs, politics and investing. Launched in 1923, "The Kiplinger Letter" pioneered a terse, colloquial writing style in which the key points of each topic are underscored for easy scanning. In a technique W. M. Kiplinger devised and dubbed "sweep-line," each line of copy—the full width of the page—ends in hard punctuation (a period or comma) at the right margin, not breaking awkwardly to wrap around to the next line. It continued during the Great Depression, when W. M. Kiplinger and his staff had contacts within FDR’s "brain trust." The newsletter doesn't quote or cites sources, both to save space and to encourage sources to speak candidly without the risk of being identified in print; longer versions in Kiplinger.com may identify these sources. The monthly "Kiplinger's Personal Finance" magazine advises its readers on managing their money, covering investing, retirement planning, taxes, insurance, real estate, buying and leasing a car, health care, travel and financing college. It has a paid average monthly circulation in 2017 of 600,000 copies per month (verified by the Audit Bureau of Circulation), sold mostly by subscription ($23.95 a year) but also on newsstands ($4.99 per copy).