Articles for The Conversation

Is the pandemic over? We asked an economist, an education expert and a public health scholar their views

Published September 21, 2022

Why is inflation so high? Is it bad? An economist answers 3 questions about soaring consumer prices

Published July 22, 2022

America’s cost of ‘defending freedom’ in Ukraine: Higher food and gas prices and an increased risk of recession

Published February 24, 2022

Relief or Stimulus: What’s the Difference, and What It Means for Biden’s $1.9 trillion Coronavirus Package

Published February 24, 2021

Will It Be a 'V' or a 'K'? The Many Shapes of Recessions and Recoveries

Published October 13, 2020

Brexit Could Spell the End of Globalization, and the Global Prosperity That Came With It

Published January 13, 2020

How Congress Lost Power Over Trade Deals – and Why Some Lawmakers Want It Back

Published July 13, 2018

4 Charts Showing Why Putting Tariffs On Your Friends is a Bad Idea

Published June 6, 2018

George W. Bush Tried Steel Tariffs. It Didn’t Work

Published April 4, 2018

Trump’s $60 Billion in China Tariffs Will Create More Problems Than They Solve

Published March 23, 2018

For Richer or Poorer: 4 Economists Ponder What 2018 Has in Store

Published January 3, 2018

Why Trump’s threat to slap tariffs on foreign steel is a bad idea

Published July 17, 2017


TV, Radio, and Newspaper Mentions

Soaring rents pushing more Charleston thirtysomethings back into roommate living

The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC), Dec 4, 2022

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates to help combat higher inflation rates and slow consumer spending

ABC Columbia (Columbia, SC), July 28, 2022

Is inflation impacting climate change? The answer’s not so simple, experts say

South Carolina Public Radio, July 22, 2022

How the Ukraine crisis could affect your pocketbook

The Indicator from Planet Money Podcast (NPR), February 25, 2022

UofSC professor speaks on gas prices in the Midlands

ABC Columbia (Columbia, SC), November 11, 2021

Social Security to increase by 5.9%, largest boost since 1982

WLTX News 19 (Columbia, SC), October 14, 2021

Many in SC will be on the hook to repay student debt as COVID relief nears end

The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC), June 13, 2021

Many could receive stimulus payment by the end of March

WLTX TV (Columbia, SC), March 11, 2021

As Virus Raged, China Snapped Up Luxury Cars Made in America

Bloomberg, May 22, 2020

Midlands residents receive first wave of stimulus checks

WIS TV (Columbia, SC), April 15, 2020

Tariffs slow SC manufacturing investment, putting projects on ‘long pause’

The (Charleston, SC) Post and Courier, June 15, 2019

Midlands soybean farmers take major hit to bottom line thanks to Chinese tariffs

WIS TV (Columbia, SC), July 19, 2018

Not Possible to Win a Trade War: No Winners in US Trade Tariffs

ABC News (Australia), March 7, 2018