Corvette

As the CARS program -- a.k.a. "cash for clunkers" -- helped an estimated 700,000 cars find new homes, it was sometimes easy to forget the opposite end of the process. For every car that was purchased, another car was traded in, and these unwanted heaps were, allegedly, put to death with a nasty...

A recent study by a University of Michigan researcher suggests that overspending by men is driven to a large extent by sex. Is this a surprise to anyone? Certainly not to the salespeople hustling Corvettes, speed boats and hot tubs. The study found that by looking at financial consumption one...