Another market bubble?

By Mike Switzer

Published October 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM EDT

Charles Flowers, chartered financial analyst with Abacus Planning Group in Columbia, SC

If you pay attention to the financial media, you have probably been hearing some new talk about stock market bubbles and their ensuing crashes and the concern that such a scenario may once again be upon us. Our next guest is going to help us with this topic. Mike Switzer interviews Charles Flowers, a chartered financial analyst with Abacus Planning Group 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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