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Post Tax-Day Economics

Many economists will tell you that once tax day has come and gone, consumers tend to relax their wallets and notch up spending a little.  Will that be the case again this year or will the uncertainties surrounding potential new policies from Washington keep a lid on things?

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.