No Amazon HQ a Good Thing for South Carolina

By Mike Switzer

Published October 31, 2017 at 9:22 AM EDT

You probably won’t be surprised to hear what our next guest has to say about our state’s economy...yes, we’re still just chugging along. However, it may surprise you to hear that he’s glad South Carolina decided not to compete for Amazon’s second national headquarters.

Mike Switzer interviews Frank Hefner, director of the Office of Economic Analysis at the College of Charleston.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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