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Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Other Banks Report Strong Earnings

[ad_1] Four of the nation’s largest banks posted quarterly earnings that beat expectations on Thursday, continuing a strong earnings season for the financial sector. Solid reports from four banks (Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup) highlighted their optimism about the economic recovery from the pandemic, even amid risks from the Delta variant …

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Bank of America and Wells Fargo beat earnings estimates

[ad_1] Four of the country’s biggest banks are posting their financial results on Thursday, a day later. JPMorgan Chase made a solid start to the earnings season. Bank of America beat analysts’ expectations, reporting a profit of $7.7 billion, or 85 cents per share, for the quarter ended September. The bank’s dealmakers received a record …

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Two Writers See America From Above and Below and Are Not Satisfied

[ad_1] In Clarksburg, we meet some victims, longtime employees who have lost their health insurance and pensions. Poverty and dwindling opportunities in West Virginia also make it the prime recruiting country for our all-volunteer military, and we encounter veterans who have been badly damaged. Employment from such communities, including speculators in Greenwich, as well as …

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‘I Need an Army’: Schools in America Are Closing For Covid Tests

[ad_1] SAN ANTONIO — Last Thursday, Ciara Brown, a senior at Fox Tech High School in San Antonio, stood on a small white desk, lowered her face mask, and performed a test still nonstandard in American schools: rub a cotton nose. “Testing is very easy,” he said. “It’s not as scary as I thought – …

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Biden Administration Seeks to Expand Telehealth in Rural America

[ad_1] He said that if it were easier to contact doctors regularly, many of those who hesitated would have changed their minds. “They’re left up to them and things someone might have told them that might not be reliable information,” said Ms. Turner-Ford. “If you don’t have a current relationship with a cultivator, someone in …

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Review: ‘Fiasco’, A Look at How America Got Where It Is

[ad_1] One of the candied anecdotes throughout “The Fiasco,” a six-part documentary about the Iran-contra affair, involves the CIA preparing Ronald Reagan for his first summit with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985. Knowing that reading was not Reagan’s preferred method, to absorb the information, the agency crafted a movie biography of the Soviet leader, with whom …

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Race Historian in America Receives An Unusual Four-Book Deal

[ad_1] Historian Martha S. Jones has a nose for writing deeply researched histories that land in the midst of the tumult and collapse of our national politics—sometimes deliberately, sometimes not. “Birthright Citizens,” a 2018 scholarly study of the history of the 19th century debate about Black citizenship in America, came at once When some conservatives …

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Bank of America Renews Leadership, but CEO Plans to Stay Around

[ad_1] Bank of America on Friday made sweeping changes in the company’s leadership, raising several executives, including three women, to senior positions and ensuring that CEO Brian Moynihan will remain head of the nation’s second-largest bank for many years. Come. Company promotion Alastair Borthwick, current head of commercial banking in New York, has been appointed …

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