Metro Charleston can help lead the next economy

AUG. 22, 2011 — With an overflow crowd set to meet Tuesday [See Good News below] to learn more about the tri-county area’s new regional plan, let’s recall some lessons offered by a Brookings Institution senior fellow less than a month ag0. Amy Liu, co-director of the think tank’s Metropolitan Policy Program, gave a fact-filled [...]

Tort reform isn’t silver bullet for jobs

FEB. 4, 2011 – A lot of lawyer bashing is on tap next week in the S.C. House where members are expected to pass a new tort bill.

Proponents say they’re just trying to move forward with a pro-business measure to make our job-starved state more competitive so it can land more jobs. That’s a similar rationale to what they said in 2005 when they passed another tort reform bill.

Economists say SC is recovering slowly

JAN. 7, 2011 – Analysts say South Carolina’s economy is slowly waking from the snooze of the Great Recession. But like a child who doesn’t want to wake up to go to school, it’s going to take the state awhile to get out of bed.Nationally-known Charlotte economist Mark Vitner opened a talk this week to Charleston [...]

SC moving into economic recovery

You might not believe it from what you see around you, but economists say South Carolina is coming out of the recession.

“We still have a long way to go,” said Ryan Sweet at Moody’s Economy.com in West Chester, Pa. “The recovery is likely going to be slow and uneven, but we’re moving in the right direction.”