Extra Credit: S&p Global Ratings Public Finance Podcast

In this week’s Extra Credit, Managing Director Martin Arrick and Director David Peknay provide an overview of our recent report on the U.S. healthcare industry and our outlook for the segments within the sector, including for-profit and insurance companies.

In this segment of Extra Credit, Director Nick Waugh discusses what's behind our recent rating action on Southern New Hampshire University and Director Karen Fitzgerald provides a big picture look at our affordable housing criteria.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Senior Director Kevin Holloran discusses the rationale behind our 2016 outlook for the not-for-profit health care sector and Associate Director Carol Spain addresses questions concerning our recent rating action on North Dakota.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Senior Director and Analytical Leader of our Public Power and Utilities team David Bodek provides an overview of the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan and the U.S. Supreme Court's stay of the plan’s implementation.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Director Charlene Butterfield provides an overview of our recent report on cultural institutions and our outlook for the sector, and Senior Director Dave Hitchcock explains why we view the Massachusetts budget proposal as a step in the positive direction.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Associate Director Carol Spain discusses Flint’s water crisis and its potential implications for the state of Michigan, and Senior Director Ted Chapman explains our revised U.S. municipal water-sewer criteria and the outlook for the sector.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Director Eden Perry discusses the impact of collapsing oil prices on states' credit profiles and Managing Director Gabe Petek explains California’s budget process and the state's strong link to stock market performance.

In this week's Extra Credit segment, Standard & Poor's Associate Director Aulii Limtiaco discusses our rating action on the California Housing Finance Agency and Senior Director Jessica Matsumori details our outlook for the Higher Education sector, including how we expect to apply our recently revised criteria.

This week’s segment of Extra Credit features Director Carolyn McLean, who explains the key revisions to our methodology for rating not-for-profit public and private colleges and universities. In addition, we highlight last week’s rating actions and discuss the key factors behind our rating on Illinois.

Starting with fiscal 2015, Governmental Accounting Standards Board statement 68 (GASB 68) requires the reporting of pension liabilities for the first time for many governmental entities, including cost-sharing entities. In this week’s Extra Credit, Director Jessica Wood assesses the impact of GASB 68 on public university credits.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Managing Director and Analytical Manager of the Transportation and Infrastructure Group Peter Murphy discusses the FAST Act and its impact on the Garvee sector.

In this week’s segment of Extra Credit, Managing Director Geoff Buswick discusses how climate change could affect ratings and Director Jennifer Hansen explains what’s behind our outlook on the City of Los Angeles.

In this week's Extra Credit, Director Bianca Gaytan-Burrell discusses what's behind our rating action on the University of Alabama and Senior Director David Bodek explains the EPA’s recently finalized Clean Power Plan.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Associate Alex North discusses the key findings from our recent articles on the affordable multifamily housing space, and Managing Director Gabe Petek reviews the State Group’s new annual debt report.

In this week's Extra Credit, Senior Director Larry Witte discusses the factors driving rating transitions in the public housing sector, and Senior Director Lisa Schroeer reviews the key rating actions we took on various entities across the country over the past week.

In this week's Extra Credit, Associate Director Sarah Sullivant discusses what’s driving California’s redevelopment sector and Senior Director Lisa Schroeer reviews the trends shaping the bank loan market.

In this week's Extra Credit, ratings analysts Anna Uboytseva and Michael Furla discuss what spurred our rating actions on Garden City Schools, Michigan, and the Town of Lawrence, Wisconsin.

In this week’s Extra Credit segment, Director Bianca Gaytan-Burrell discusses what prompted our recent rating action on New Mexico State University.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Senior Director Kevin Holloran explains what’s behind our outlook for the U.S. health care sector and Director Russell Bryce discusses special tax ratios.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Senior Director Larry Witte, from the global fixed income group, discusses second-quarter rating trends, and Senior Director Lisa Schroeer, from the local government group, talks about how GASB 67/68 factors into our pension analysis.