Extra Credit: S&p Global Ratings Public Finance Podcast

Hear what the future holds for our economic growth. Hear about tariff impacts; housing starts and stops; and what pressures and opportunities to expect. With Lisa Schroeer, Jane Ridley and Adriana Artola.

Listen to a myriad of analysts from charters to transit talk about rating actions that you should know about. You will hear about a first-of-its-kind pool transaction featuring charter school loans, recent actions related to wildfire risk within public power, and The Miami-Dade Expressway. All of this, on this week’s Extra Credit with Lisa Schroeer and special co-host Peter Murphy.

Listen to clips from host Lisa Schroeer’s 2018 favorite shows. Return for new programing next episode.

Lisa Schroeer talks with Texas experts Andy Hobbs, Josh Travis and Oscar Padilla. Hear about recent legislation and the impact on locals and school districts, and get a state overview.

Hear Lisa Schroeer discuss cyber security and opportunity zones with Tiffany Tribbitt and Kristin Button. Hear it all, on this week’s Extra Credit!

This week hear Lisa Schroeer talk with state analyst experts David Hitchcock and Sussan Corson about how “U.S. States Take Advantage Of A Prolonged Economic Expansion”.

This week on Extra Credit Lisa Schroeer talks to Jane Ridley and Chris Morgan about our anticipated U.S. growth and what regional variations we can expect. Hear from Jane on broader U.S. and regional trends and then deep dive with Chris on what’s behind the faster growing regions.

This week they talk about asset transfers and other post-employment benefit obligation bonds (OOBs). Carol Spain will discuss recent trends in these areas with respect to Illinois.

Listen to Lisa Schroeer and visiting co-host Tiffany Tribbitt cover this action packed podcast covering the New York State Budget and its potential impact on local governments, as well as our view on congestion pricing. Analysts Tim Little, Paul Dyson, and Nora Wittstruck provide their insights.

This week you can hear Kaiti Vartholomaios talk about our recent publication that highlights rating actions over the past two years and the role ESG factors played. Erin Boeke Burke discusses her findings on water and sewer rate affordability and Andrew Bredeson joins the conversation to help cover the 2019 Green Bond outlook.

Why does the charter school sector tend to have lower ratings than other sectors within USPF? Listen to Lisa Schroeer talk with Jessica Wood, Kaiti Wang and Luke Gildner about charter schools. We cover the sector broadly and then dive deeper into Colorado and California charter schools. We highlight trends, differences and similarities.

Lisa Schroeer talks 2019 outlooks for our USPF Higher Education and Health Care Sectors with Martin Arrick and Jessica Goldman. Topics include the potential impacts from slower economic growth and disrupters. Hear how management may be the key to keeping credit quality healthy and ahead of the class.

In this week’s Extra Credit, we give our 2019 outlook for pensions and other post-employment benefits in 2019. Hear what our analysts think will be the risks and opportunities in the upcoming year. Sussan Corson, Todd Tauzer, Todd Kanaster and Lisa Schroeer discuss the issues.

This week Lisa Schroeer talks with sector leaders David Bodek, Ted Chapman, and Kurt Forsgren about the 2019 outlooks for our public power, water/sewer and transportation groups. Amongst other topics, hear how our view of the anticipated slower growth in 2019 will affect each sector slightly differently. Risks and Opportunities are also discussed.

For our first 2019 podcast, we introduce Eden Perry as the new head of U.S. Public Finance and discuss our view on state and local government risks and opportunities for the upcoming year.

This week host Lisa Schroeer talks with Russell Bryce and David Veno to cover the municipal bond market. You’ll hear highlights on proposed criteria changes along with any anticipated ratings impact and a run-down of the current state of the municipal bond insurance market, including potential areas for growth.

In this week’s Extra Credit, Lisa Schroeer takes a walk down memory lane with excerpts from podcasts past. From analytic topics to sign-off favorites, she covers some of the past year’s highlights.

This week on Extra Credit Lisa Schroeer talks with lead analysts Rahul Jain and Carol Spain about big city updates with NYC and Chicago. Then we discuss Chicago STSC and Build Illinois’ bonds recent rating actions.

In this week’s Extra Credit, S&P Global Rating’s U.S. Public Finance Podcast, Lisa Schroeer sits down with Not-For-Profit Health Care industry expert Martin Arrick and Higher Ed’s veteran analyst Ken Rodgers to learn about mergers and acquisitions. What are we seeing in these sectors and are there any lessons we can learn?

This week on Extra Credit, S&P Global Ratings’ U.S. Public Finance Podcast, Gabe Petek dives deep on the potential impact to states of a cycle turn, noting they may be tested in unprecedented ways. Lisa Schroeer takes a turn at the mic highlighting and explaining how S&P Global Ratings incorporates ESG factors into its Public Finance ratings.