{"id":296,"date":"2016-02-17T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T01:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/professor-guth-to-discuss-south-carolina-republican-primary-at-high-noon-at-fyi-jan-18\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:04:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:04:02","slug":"professor-guth-to-discuss-south-carolina-republican-primary-at-high-noon-at-fyi-jan-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/professor-guth-to-discuss-south-carolina-republican-primary-at-high-noon-at-fyi-jan-18\/","title":{"rendered":"“Kicking the Can Down the Road:” Professor Smythe presents final FYI lecture March 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

MARCH 1, 2012
\nby Vince Moore, Media Relations<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Dr. Tom Smythe<\/p><\/div>\n

Furman University’s winter\/spring High Noon at FYI lecture series is currently underway and\u00a0meets each Wednesday at noon in the FYI center in downtown Greenville.<\/p>\n

The winter\/spring schedule\u00a0consists of eight free lectures that run on consecutive Wednesdays through March 7.<\/p>\n

All FYI lectures begin at noon and last approximately one hour.\u00a0The FYI center is located at 612 South Main Street across from Mary\u2019s Restaurant at Falls Cottage.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact Furman\u2019s Marketing and Public Relations office at 864-294-2185 or e-mail Marie Newman-Rogers at\u00a0marie.newman-rogers@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is the remainder of the schedule:<\/p>\n

March 7<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Impact of Kicking the Can Down the Road\u201d<\/p>\n

Tom Smythe, Professor of Business, Furman University<\/p>\n

The \u201ccredit crisis\u201d and the \u201cdebt debate\u201d are among the pressing political issues that have a direct impact on the markets and the economy.\u00a0 But when political leaders settle for temporary solutions and \u201ckick the can down the road,\u201d it leads to uncertainty for everyone, from the smallest mom-and-pop businesses to the largest corporations.\u00a0 Dr. Smythe will look at what continued inaction on the political front might mean for the future of the American economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MARCH 1, 2012
\nby Vince Moore, Media Relations<\/p>\n

Furman business professor Tom Smythe will look at how political inaction is affecting the American economy\u00a0when\u00a0he speaks\u00a0at the High Noon at FYI lecture series Wednesday, March 7. It is the final lecture of the winter\/spring program, which began in January and has featured eight talks. His talk begins at noon in the FYI center, which is located at 612 South Main Street in downtown Greenville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}