Chart of the Week

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The badly unbalanced “balanced budget”

Brad Keithley   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 overall spending. But that’s not the only lens.

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Alaska has a revenue design problem

Brad Keithley   February 28, 2025

In a recent op-ed that is making its way through the state’s newspapers and other media outlets, former Revenue Commissioner Bruce Tangeman rhetorically asks,...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: How the Legislature should respond to the Hilcorp LNG proposal

Brad Keithley   February 21, 2025

Earlier this month, Marathon Petroleum Corporation (Marathon), the owner of the Kenai oil refinery and various related assets, announced the proposed sale...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Revenues

Brad Keithley   February 14, 2025

Those who follow these columns know that we have been discussing for nearly all of the time we have been writing them the fiscal…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: A couple of updates

Brad Keithley   February 7, 2025

This week, we are updating the charts in our two previous columns – last week’s on the budget (“This is brutal”)…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: This is brutal

Brad Keithley   January 31, 2025

Over the past few years, one of the documents we have come to rely on most in assessing Alaska’s fiscal situation is the Legislative…
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