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Jobs, EMS and a 'Center of Excellence': How will MT spend $233M on rural health this year?

Plans are taking shape for how Montana intends to dole out hundreds of millions of dollars in the next year to bolster rural health care, an ambitious undertaking that’s going to require the slow-moving apparatus of state government to work at lightning speed. It’s a breakneck pace

Talks towards international panel to tackle 'inequality emergency' begin at UN

Talks towards international panel to tackle 'inequality emergency' begin at UN

Talks towards creating a new international panel to address extreme wealth disparities, modelled on the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), opened in Geneva on Monday. The founding committee of the new International Panel on Inequality (IPI), made up of country representatives and inequality experts including Nobel

European bank battle heats up as UniCredit swoops for Commerzbank

European bank battle heats up as UniCredit swoops for Commerzbank

Italian bank UniCredit on Monday made a 35-billion-euro ($40 billion) takeover offer for Commerzbank, sparking fury from Berlin and a defiant vow from the German lender to defend its independence. While stressing that it did not expect to take full control, UniCredit said it would raise its stake

EU talks energy as oil price soars

EU talks energy as oil price soars

Energy ministers from the EU's 27 nations huddled in Brussels Monday to discuss how to help families and businesses as the Iran war sends energy prices soaring. The meeting laid the groundwork for a Thursday summit of EU leaders that will seek to address the issue -- though the

Are You ‘Spaving’? How to Save Instead of Overspend

Are You ‘Spaving’? How to Save Instead of Overspend

Have you ever added something extra to your online cart so you’d qualify for free shipping? Bought five items to get a multi-item discount? Spent $100 in a store so you could use a $20-off coupon? Guess what? You’re “spaving.” Spaving is a mashup of spending

Stagflation risk in US 'quite high': Nobel-winning economist Stiglitz

Stagflation risk in US 'quite high': Nobel-winning economist Stiglitz

The war in the Middle East has put the United States at high risk of falling into stagflation, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told AFP on Monday. Even before the war erupted on February 28 with a barrage of US and Israeli strikes on Iran, Stiglitz said the US

Central banks meet as Mideast war fuels inflation fears

Central banks meet as Mideast war fuels inflation fears

Some of the world's biggest central banks meet this week as fears grow the energy shock unleashed by the Middle East war could fuel inflation and weigh on growth. The US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of England and Bank of Japan hold previously scheduled meetings on