Charleston Currents

BRACK: Use smarter tools to be tough on trade

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | President Donald Trump is the bully in the China shop of global trade. If a new trade war sparked by tariffs on goods from China, Canada, Mexico and our European allies continues, South Carolinians will lose jobs – lots of jobs.

“The South Carolina economy is placed at high risk in the current tough talk about trade,” said economist C. Bruce Yandle, dean emeritus of the Clemson University College of Business and Behavioral Science.

by Andy Brack · 07/09/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

7/9, full issue: CofC’s interim president; Trade tools; new Palmetto Poem

IN THIS ISSUE of Charleston Currents #10.35 | July 9, 2018

FOCUS,: Meet Steve Osborne, interim president of the College of Charleston
COMMENTARY, Brack: Use smarter tools to be tough on trade
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Charleston International Airport
PALMETTO POEM: July 1963
WHAT WE LOVE: Tell us what you love about the Lowcountry
FEEDBACK: Pay attention people to the monster of a highway
MYSTERY PHOTO: Hmmm, looks like a church, but where?
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Briggs v. Elliott
CALENDAR, July 9+: Another great library book sale is around the corner