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Step #5 - Evaluate Your Health Insurance - Can You Save By Switching? For many people, health insurance is a major expense. Monthly health insurance premiums are often a good deal more than a car payment. How much evaluation and shopping did you do before you bought your last car? Did you spend t...

Brighton Securities is proud to be a resource for the local media. Sunday's Democrat & Chronicle featured a long-form article about the outlook for the stock market and the economy in 2011 which quotes our President, George T. Conboy: Stocks are coming back ... Are you coming back to stocks?...

Step 4: Percent - Not Dollars Here's another tip in the "save more" category that can help you to save painlessly. Last year I posted a series of 10 Ground Rules for retirement savings success and this rule bears repeating - it's that important. You should start contributing to a retirement plan if...

Step #3 - Pay Down Your Small Debts First To get to this step you should be on board with the ideas of "Spend Less" and "Save More." Another way to save is by not having to pay interest, which means reducing or eliminating your debt. There's nothing wrong with debt, most people could never buy a...

#2 - A Tax Cut That Can Build Your Net Worth While one road to financial freedom is to spend less, the other, parallel road is to save more. Effective this week, every working American got a tax cut. It doesn't matter what tax bracket you're in or how much you make. Every worker pays Social Secur...

This time of year there is much spoken and written about resolutions, plenty of it humorous and quickly forgotten. Losing ten pounds, exercising more - I'm not going to do that myself so I have no critique to offer in that department. But this is a great time for a brief annual review of your pers...

Marge and I (and the rest of the staff here at Brighton Securities) will be pretty busy today, so I am taking a break from drafting a blog post and offer you a link to a column by Al Lewis that I saw on this morning's Dow Jones Newswire. I got a chuckle out of it and suspect you will, too. Next wee...

NYS Attorney General (and Governor-elect) Andrew Cuomo today announced a settlement with "Crime Czar" Steven Rattner. Rattner, who was the Obama administration's "Car Czar" - manager of the political bankruptcy of GM & Chrysler - has agreed to pay $10 million in restitution to New York State and wil...

Crude oil has hovered in the $75-$85/barrel range for most of 2010, but lately prices have risen. With oil changing hands at over $90, drivers are bracing for gasoline prices over $4 per gallon some time in 2011. No one wants to pay more to fill up their tank, and higher gasoline prices are regarded...

Amid news of mergers and acquisitions come two similar stories today: Brown-Forman and Constellations Brands are both looking to sell all or part of their wine business. Just type "wine glut" into Google and you'll get plenty of stories from markets around the world. So think about that for a minute...