Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Dunleavy came in promising to “Save the PFD,” but is going to leave having helped kill it
May 2, 2025
Most who were here at the time of the 2018 governor’s race will recall that central to now-Governor Mike...
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Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Think oil credits are big? There’s another even bigger category
Brad Keithley June 6, 2025
The first thing that comes to many, indeed, likely most minds when discussing Alaska tax credits is the per-barrel credits used by the state’s oil producers to reduce their annual production tax obligations to the state.
While not as big as they used to be and as some still think they are, the credits are nevertheless significant….
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: Why the adoption of a one-account Permanent Fund would favor the current generation at the expense of future ones
Brad Keithley April 25, 2025
As some readers of this column may recall, we have...
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