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David Wyss

David A. Wyss is chief economist at Standard & Poor’s. Wyss joined Data Resources in 1979 as an economist in London at European Economic Service, which was acquired by McGraw-Hill. He returned to the U.S. in 1983 as chief financial economist for DRI/McGraw-Hill, became chief economist for Standard & Poor’s DRI in 1992, and was named chief economist for Standard & Poor’s in 1999. Before DRI, Wyss was a senior staff economist with the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board, and economic adviser to the Bank of England. Wyss holds a bachelor’s degree from MIT and a PhD from Harvard.

Recent Articles by David Wyss

June 22, 2009

The Retirement Dilemma: Keep Working?

As the first cohort of the baby boom generation this year hits 63—which is the average age of retirement in the U.S.—the big question is: Are they financially ready to...

June 8, 2009

Can the Government Afford Retirement?

Federal entitlement programs are critical to retirement security, but these programs are rapidly moving into the red. New projections by the trustees of the Social ...

March 2, 2009

When There's Nowhere Left to Spread the Risk

It will be months or years before the definitive history is written of the mix of factors that led to the great credit market and economic retreat of 2008-09. What's ...

January 22, 2009

A Deep and Long Recession

For economists, projections are a stock in trade. At Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, which operates independently of S&P Equity Research, we publish monthly our ...

January 15, 2009

A Trillion-Dollar Deficit?

We now expect the drop in real gross domestic product (GDP) during this downturn to be similar to the declines in 1975 (3.1%) and 1982 (2.9%), the previous record ...