Extra Credit: S&p Global Ratings Public Finance Podcast

In this week's "Extra Credit," Senior Director Larry Witte discusses the fourth-quarter ratings round-up for U.S. public finance and Director Helen Samuelsson updates us on Chicago.

On this week’s Extra Credit, Managing Director Gabe Petek dispels the notion that temporary revenues are behind California's better operational financial performance, and Director Sussan Corson discusses our outlook on Louisiana.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Senior Director Jane Ridley, Director Ken Rodgers, and Senior Director Dave Hitchcock discuss our rating actions on Wayne County, Thomas Jefferson University, and Puerto Rico, respectively.

In this segment of Extra Credit, Senior Director David Bodek discusses the credit implications for public power and cooperative utilities with stakes in delayed nuclear plants, and Associate Li Yang explains what's behind our recent rating action on Kern County.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Associate Director Lindsay Wilhelm and Director Scott Garrigan discuss our recent ratings actions on Atlantic City, New Jersey.

In this week’s Extra Credit, we review the implications of oil price declines on municipalities in Texas with credit analyst Oscar Padilla and on the University of Texas Permanent University Fund with Director Bianca Gaytan-Burrell.

In this week's Extra Credit, Senior Director Jessica Matsumori and Director Jeff Panger discuss our 2015 outlook for the higher education and public power sectors, respectively.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Managing Director Robin Prunty, Senior Director Kevin Holloran, and Director Larry Witte review 2014 and provide our outlooks for the states, health care, housing, and local governments sectors.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Senior Director Kevin Holloran explains our new not-for-profit stand-alone heath care criteria and Associate Director Carol Spain provides our forecasts for state and local governments in 2015.

In this week’s Extra Credit segment, Director Ted Chapman discusses our recent water & sewer criteria request for comment and Associate Sarah Sullivant examines the credit characteristics of California City.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Standard & Poor’s Senior Director Dave Hitchcock discusses the link between Puerto Rico’s economy and its credit quality.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Standard & Poor's Director Sussan Corson weighs in on states’ OPEB liabilities and Senior Director Jessica Matsumori discusses the recent trends in higher education enrollment.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Senior Director Dave Hitchcock and Director Misty Newland discuss the impact of California's Proposition 2 on the state and its school districts, and Senior Director Jane Ridley and Director Chris Morgan provide an update on Detroit and Stockton.

In this week's Extra Credit, Ratings Specialist Omar Tabani explains what's behind our rating on Harris County Houston Sports Authority and Managing Director Martin Arrick discusses two recent bulletins on Ebola's possible impact on the health care sector.

In this week's Extra Credit, Standard & Poor's Associate Director Apple Lo discusses our credit conditions forecast and Director Larry Witte summarizes our two recent reports on housing finance agencies.

On this week’s segment of Extra Credit, Standard & Poor's Director Henry Henderson discusses our commentary on state debt and Senior Director John Sugden explains our rating action on Pennsylvania.

In this week’s Extra Credit segment, Standard & Poor’s Director Chris Morgan discusses the recent ruling in the Stockton bankruptcy case regarding the city’s pension contributions, and Director Lisa Schroeer explains the impact of our updated local government general obligation criteria one year after its application.

In this week’s Extra Credit segment, Standard & Poor's Associate Director Hilary Sutton explains what's behind our rating action on Washington, D.C., and Associate Director Carolyn McLean discusses our privatized student housing report.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Standard & Poor's Associate Director Aulii Limtiaco explains our upgrade on New York City Housing Development Corp.'s multifamily housing revenue bonds and Director Suzie Desai discusses our medians report for U.S. not-for-profit children’s hospitals.

On this week's Extra Credit, Managing Director Gabe Petek discusses our commentary on income inequality and state tax revenue, and Senior Director John Sugden explains our recent rating action on New Jersey.