Beth Ann Bovino is the U.S. Chief Economist at Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, based in New York. In this position, she develops S&P's U.S. economic forecasts and authors the monthly U.S. Economic Forecast, the quarterly U.S. Risks To The Forecast, the weekly Financial Notes and the Weekly Economics Call. Beth Ann has created Industry Drivers reports for analyst research. She is quoted regularly in the press and has appeared on many major television programs. Further, she has written many ar

Nicholas R. Lardy is the Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He joined the Institute in March 2003 from the Brookings Institution, where he was a senior fellow from 1995 until 2003. Before Brookings, he served at the University of Washington, where he was the director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies from 1991 to 1995. From 1997 through the spring of 2000, he was also the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of International

On October 27, 2011, Tsinghua University Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE) held a closed-door seminar with several representatives from the credit rating agency Standard Poors. Jean-Michel Six, Standard Poors Chief European Economist, and Ping Chew, Managing Director, Greater China President, led the discussion on the Standard Poors side. In addition to CCWE Director David Daokui Li, Chinese participants included academics from various universities throughout China and officials fr