Advancing economic and financial literacy education in SC

By Mike Switzer

Published February 15, 2024 at 6:30 AM EST

Chandler Jordan, executive director of the SC Council on Economic Education in Columbia, S.C.

You would think that in today’s world of the Internet (what we used to call the Information Superhighway), most people would be fairly knowledgeable about finances. But our next guest says there is still plenty of work to do. Mike Switzer interviews Chandler Jordan, the new executive director of the SC Council on Economic Education in Columbia, SC.

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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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