Knight Kiplinger to Speak at UA March 6

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Knight Kiplinger, one of America’s most respected economic journalists and business forecasters, will speak Thursday, March 6 at 5 p.m. in Sellers Auditorium at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Kiplinger is editor in chief of The Kiplinger Letter, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, and KiplingerForecasts.com. His visit is sponsored by UA’s College of Human Environmental Sciences and The Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama.

The Kiplinger Letter is a business forecasting weekly that has been published since 1923 and has more than 300,000 subscribers. Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, founded in 1947 as the first magazine in the field of personal money management, has a monthly circulation of more than 1 million. KiplingerForecasts.com is the organization’s newest venture and is a daily forecasting service that alerts executives to coming changes in economics conditions, technology and government regulation.

Kiplinger is the co-author of several best selling books, including “Kiplinger’s Look Ahead”, “America in the Global ’90s”, “The New American Boom” and “Washington Now.” His most recent book, “World Boom Ahead,” was published in 1998.

He is a frequent guest on many national radio and television programs including “The Today Show”, “CBS This Morning” and “The Larry King Show.”

For more information, contact Jan Brakefield, coordinator of college relations in the UA College of Human Environmental Sciences, at 205/348-8132 or jbrakefi@ches.ua.edu.