{"id":111,"date":"2016-02-11T18:07:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/569\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:28:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:28:53","slug":"569","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/569\/","title":{"rendered":"Smythe interviewed on Fox Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tom-smythe.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-570 lazyload\" title=\"tom-smythe\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tom-smythe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"240\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 162px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 162\/240;\" \/><\/a>Furman business professor Tom Smythe was interviewed for a news piece on FOX Carolina TV about President Obama\u2019s bus tour to Asheville, N.C., to promote his jobs bill.\u00a0 Smythe said the jobs issue is a &#8220;classic Democrat, Republican&#8221; debate, where Democrats want the government to put money into the economy, and Republicans would rather cut taxes to prompt businesses to create jobs. \u00a0He added that it&#8217;s the &#8220;uncertainty&#8221; that keeps financial\u00a0markets from hiring and adding long-term investments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/story\/15716565\/upstate-economist-weighs-in-on-obamas-jobs-bill\">Visit the FOX Carolina website for more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman business professor Tom Smythe was interviewed for a news piece on FOX Carolina TV about President Obama\u2019s bus tour to Asheville, N.C., to promote his jobs bill.  Smythe said the jobs issue is a &#8220;classic Democrat, Republican&#8221; debate, where Democrats want the government to put money into the economy, and Republicans would rather cut taxes to prompt businesses to create jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-business-and-accounting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}