Crews Cutts Joins NACM as Economist

By Reeves Simmons.
Updated Jan 30, 2022

COLUMBIA, Md. (PRWEB) January 30, 2022 - The National Association of Credit Management welcomes nationally recognized thought leader and chief economist, Amy Crews Cutts, Ph.D., CBE, as its economist. Each month Dr. Crews Cutts will provide detailed analysis of NACMs Credit Managers Index. Since its inception, the CMI has been a startlingly accurate economic predictor.

The CMI is created from a monthly survey of U.S. credit and collections professionals and asks participants to rate whether factors in their monthly business cyclesuch as sales, new credit applications, accounts placed for collections and dollar amount beyond termsare higher than, lower than or the same as the previous month. The results reflect the entire cycle of commercial business transactions, providing an accurate, predictive benchmarking tool.

Dr. Crews Cutts provides strategic economic analysis rooted in practical business terms. She is the president and chief economist of AC Cutts & Associates LLC and also serves as the chief economist for Bright Query LLC. She was previously senior vice president and chief economist for Equifax and senior director and deputy chief economist at Freddie Mac before that. With more than 25 years of economic analysis and policy development experience, Dr. Crews Cutts is a passionate advocate for expanding consumer and small business access to low-cost, nonpredatory credit. She is a noted expert in credit reporting, consumer and small business credit markets, loan servicing, securitization, residential real estate including home equity and price indices, and trends in employment and compensation.

Often quoted in national print and broadcast media, she has also published numerous studies in academic journals and books on such topics as the economics of subprime lending, the impact of technology on foreclosure prevention, and the drivers of strategic mortgage default. In 2015, she won the Pulsenomics Crystal Ball Award for Outstanding Performance in The Zillow Home Price Expectations Survey for her forecast accuracy and is a participant in the Wall Street Journals Survey of Leading Economists.

Dr. Crews Cutts holds a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. In 2015 she became a Certified Business Economist, a distinction of professional achievement from the National Association for Business Economics (NABE). She serves on the board of directors for NABE and the National Business Economics Issues Council, the policy advisory board for The Reinvestment Fund, the advisory board for Riskspan, and the housing advisory board for the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. She has taught economics at Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Virginia and was Assistant Professor of Economics and Senior Researcher in the Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

For a complete breakdown of the manufacturing and service sector data and graphics, view the January 2022 report at http://web.nacm.org/CMI/PDF/CMIcurrent.pdf http://web.nacm.org/CMI/PDF/CMIcurrent.pdf. CMI archives may also be viewed on NACMs website at http://www.nacm.org/cmi/cmi-archive http://www.nacm.org/cmi/cmi-archive.

ABOUT THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CREDIT MANAGEMENT NACM, headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, supports approximately 11,000 business credit and financial professionals worldwide with premier industry tools and information. NACM and its network of affiliated associations are the leading resource for credit and financial management information, education, products and services designed to improve the management of business credit and accounts receivable. NACMs collective voice has influenced federal legislative policy results concerning commercial business and trade credit to our nations policymakers for more than 100 years and continues to play an active part in legislative issues pertaining to business credit and corporate bankruptcy. NACM's annual conference http://creditcongress.nacm.org/ is the largest gathering of credit professionals in the world.

Contact: Diana Mota 410-423-1837

Website: http://www.nacm.org http://www.nacm.org/cmi/cmi-archive

Source: National Association of Credit Management