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The Rich Are Minting Money in the Pandemic Like Never Before
- Country’s most well-off benefit from Federal Reserve policies
- Access to financial markets shape nation’s unequal recovery
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Americans have become, by some measures, richer during the pandemic than ever before.
It’s a difficult thing to fathom, what with the economic collapse and the surge in the ranks of the jobless, the homeless and the hungry. But there’s a whole class of people -- at least the top 20% or so of earners -- who’ve had to worry little about such matters.