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The Edgefield Advertiser began publication in February 1836, making it the oldest newspaper in South Carolina to publish continuously under the same nameplate.

The financial markets have been running into some headwinds lately with both the NASDAQ and S&P 500 registering 10% pullbacks. Not to mention the bond market suffering, as well, caused by inflation and Fed fears. So we thought this would be a good time to check in with one of our local prognosticators with his thoughts on where your money should be parked for the remainder of this year. Mike Switzer interviews Doug English, a certified financial planner with ACT Advisors in Charleston, SC.

Listeners report large numbers of white pelicans stopping in South Carolina.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Andrea Rinn about the connection between getting a good night’s sleep and your immune system. Dr. Rinn is a physician in the Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at MUSC.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. Today John discusses the population gap between the nation and our state when it comes to the professional class.

Most financial planners will tell you that the overall goal of a good plan is to help you live your best possible life. But our next guest says that many of the families he meets do not really understand what that looks like. Joining Mike Switzer by phone from Greenville is Rick Van Der Noord, a certified financial planner with over 40 years in the profession.

The harpsichord, the keyboard workhorse of the Baroque period, is an instrument with a problem: varying the touch on the keys has absolutely no effect on volume or tone quality. Depress a key gently or pound on it, it doesn’t matter — the note will sound the same.

One sector of the stock market that has done particularly well over the past 12 months is the energy sector, driven mostly by significantly higher oil and gas prices. Is this segment due for a breather? Mike Switzer interviews Peter Nielsen, a chartered financial analyst and adjunct professor of finance at Anderson University in Anderson, SC. He joins us by phone today from his office at Independent Solutions Wealth Management in Greer, SC where he is a portfolio manager. He is also a member of the South Carolina chapter of the CFA Society.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John discusses feedback from a listener regarding last week’s topic of retaining and growing the professional class in our state.

The Dr. Charles Townes Individual Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Innovision honors an individual who has exhibited a sustained commitment to the advancement of technology and the community for the benefit of our state. The award is named after the only person other than the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa to win both a Nobel Prize and a Templeton Prize. Mike Switzer interviews the most recent recipient of this prestigious award, Dr. Martine LaBerge, a professor and chair of Bioengineering at Clemson University. She was also recently inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame.