South Carolina Business Review

Tariffs and S.C.…continued

By Mike Switzer

Published May 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM EDT

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Mike Switzer, host of the South Carolina Business Review

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been covering the effect of the Trump tariffs on our state’s economy. Today we’ll hear from an expert on this issue who we first spoke with back when all this started in February. Mike Switzer interviews Bill Hauk, associate professor of economics and academic director of the professional MBA program at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C.

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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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