It also hints at a difference in the reasons why the typical American woman stays single into their prime working age, depending on their race. The single whites whose median wealth is $46k are more likely to have stayed single and childless to get ahead in a professional career. The single blacks with a median wealth of $5 are caught in a cycle of poverty and probably are single mothers which has kept them from getting ahead economically.

The brainless should not be in banking -- Willem Buiter