Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Why the adoption of a one-account Permanent Fund would favor the current generation at the expense of future ones
April 25, 2025
As some readers of this column may recall, we have...
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Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Financing the FY26 Budget
Brad Keithley May 30, 2025
Now that the legislative session is over, this week we look at how the Legislature proposes to finance the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget and the resulting impact on Alaska households.
As in the previous seven years since the adoption of the percent-of-market-value (POMV) approach for drawing funds from the Permanent Fund to help pay for government…
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
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...
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...