With global interest rates at record lows, and pandemic volatility everywhere you look, The Agenda with Stephen Cole looks at the safer and more risky options for investors.

The episode examines just what the long term impact of coronavirus is likely to be on investments and tries to discover w...

"Financial markets were once oligopolies in which retail investors had no impact whatsoever on trade. Now that's changed."💵

💰Finance guru Arturo Bris tells #TheAgenda with Stephen Cole how the Game Stop saga may have changed investment forever.

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As the adverts tell us, your investment can always go down as well as up. And given the volatility of the last 12 months since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, that adage has never seemed truer.
But could the global reset caused by coronavirus actually be a good thing for investors longer...

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There are almost as many treatments for addicts as there are types of addiction. And finding the right treatment for the individual in question is absolutely key in facilitating their ability to give up their addiction for good. So here, Stephen Cole speaks to two treatment exp...

“Preventative education is the key strategy in our drug control efforts”

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International collaboration is key to solving the world’s addiction issues. Already in 2021, the EU have begun its first official dialogue on drugs with China. It’s hoped this will allow for real cooperat...

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The financial cost to global healthcare systems and economies runs into trillions of dollars. Alongside the financial cost, every story of addiction details an extraordinary human cost.

In this episode of The Agenda with Stephen Cole, we speak to author and former addict Erin...

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The financial cost of addiction to the world’s healthcare providers runs into trillions of dollars.

And, while the treatment and understanding of the addict is improving all the time, the number of people with a dependence on a substance or activity is continuing to rise – to...

Where once most addicts were considered weak and had only themselves to blame, times have changed, and addiction is now defined as a disease.
But as times change, the kinds of things we become addicted to change too, as does the number of people who fall victim to addiction.

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Addiction is a multi-trillion-dollar problem from which no country is entirely immune.

Experts describe it as a disease that alters our brain, making us a slave to a substance or an activity.

But just how do we become addicted to drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, food and so on? What are the human a...

"They all have an idea. They all believe wholly in their idea," Scott Omelianuk, editor in chief of Inc. magazine, says about what makes an entrepreneur. #TheAgenda

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Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, Associate Professor in Entrepreneurial Leadership at Henley Business School, thinks the basics of entrepreneurship can be taught.

“We’re seeing more and more research in terms of neuroscience, that shows us the characteristics such as creativity are skills that can be t...

On #TheAgenda​, Stephen Cole talks to Dan Vahdat, Founder and CEO of
Huma, an A.I. business designed to democratize healthcare.

He shares how he came up with his business idea and how the pandemic has transformed his operation.

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Deborah Meaden made her first entrepreneurial moves at a very young age “I can remember when I was about seven, picking some flowers from the garden and setting up a little flower stall by the side of the road,” she tells Stephen Cole – “I always wanted to be in business.”

She set up her first r...

2021 is set to be the year of the entrepreneur.

One in 18 people around the world now owns their own business, and experts predict that far from proving a hinderance, the current COVID-19 pandemic will actually be a help to millions more who may be using lockdown to perfect their potentially bi...

In this #AskTheAgenda special, Stephen Cole chooses some of the most prominent queries and concerns from viewers - such as whether the vaccines work on new variants, and how long immunity lasts - and gets the answers from Jerome Kim, Director General of the International Vaccine Institute.

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The biggest vaccination campaign of all time is making great progress around the world. As more vaccines continue to be developed, the numbers of people being inoculated are soaring. As of February 9, it’s estimated more than 130 million doses have been used in more than 70 countries worldwide. I...

How did Israel manage to vaccinate most of its population in such a short time, while other countries are struggling with limited supplies and delays in distribution?

Nathan Jeffay from The Times of Israel, explains. #TheAgenda

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What progress have vaccination campaigns made towards ending the pandemic? Amid limited global supplies and different approaches to vaccine rollouts, Stephen Cole looks at the challenges facing the world in its journey toward immunity.

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China has set itself the ambitious target of inoculating 50 million high-priority people before the end of its lunar new year holiday, which begins on February 12. Someone who will be advising how best to achieve that goal is Chen Jian, former adjunct professor of finance at Johns Hopkins Univers...

While countries race to vaccinate their populations as quickly as possible, many poorer nations don't have the technology needed to store vaccines at cold temperatures.

Vaccines must be kept at consistently cold temperature while they are transported long distances and when they arrive at their ...

An announcement by the European Union to control exports of vaccines produced within the bloc prompted a global discussion on vaccine nationalism.

Siddhartha Datta, the Regional Adviser for Europe at WHO’s Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Immunization Programme speaks to #TheAgenda.

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Is this the Olympics of the future? The Cybathlon championship sees man and machine merge in a global competition between 51 teams from 20 countries.

The event pits people of differing abilities against one another as they perform everyday tasks with the help of advanced assistive technology.
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Amid limited global supplies and different approaches to vaccine rollouts, we look at the challenges facing the world in its journey toward immunity.

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China is the country which has most recently been to the moon, the Chang e’5 probe returned to Earth with almost two kilos of rocks in December of 2020. But what does China plan to do with these samples?

“Study them and then share them with the global scientific community of course,” says Xu Ya...