Americans got richer than ever during the pandemic, but Canadians haven’t followed suit

COVID-19 has infected and killed a higher proportion of the population in the United States than in Canada, but that hasn’t stopped household wealth from rebounding to a record level south of the border, outpacing wealth gains in Canada in the process. According to U.S. data, a booming stock market and a series of fiscal and monetary stimulus efforts pushed the wealth of American households to the highest level ever in...