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Sep 2023
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2. The drug behind Europe's most valuabl...

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How much harm has been done by decades of governments investing too little? Is buy-now-pay-later causing misery or joy for young shoppers? Are supermarkets cutting prices fast enough? Is Novo Nordisk’s anti obesity wonder drug Semaglutide the most important pharmaceutical discovery of the century?


Join Robert and Steph as they answer all these questions and more on today's episode of The Rest Is Money.

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