Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The badly unbalanced “balanced budget”
April 18, 2025
Fiscal analysts use multiple lenses to evaluate whether a government budget is “balanced.” One is in an accounting sense of whether overall revenues equal...
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Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Why the Permanent Fund earnings reserve account is not in danger of being drained
Brad Keithley May 26, 2025
In last week’s column, we explored an issue underlying the arguments of some who are...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Some important numbers that have been missing from the Permanent Fund debate
Brad Keithley
May 16, 2025
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: SB 21 is broken
Brad Keithley March 28, 2025
The typical flurry of legislative session op-eds warning against changes to oil taxes began the week before last. True to form, the season kicked…
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Why the Permanent Fund Corporation’s investment approach may become a major 2026 campaign issue
Brad Keithley March 22, 2025
In our last two columns, we have explained that the
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: How much are we leaving on the POMV table?
Brad Keithley March 14, 2025
Last week’s column focused on conducting a “thought experiment” on the Permanent Fund (Fund). It examined what would have happened if the balance of...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: A not-too-far-fetched “thought experiment”
Brad Keithley March 7, 2025
“Thought experiments are defined as the mental process of using hypotheticals to logically reason out a solution to a difficult question. As the name...