Chart of the Week

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Why a dedicated “Education Fund” would undermine a long-term fiscal plan

Brad Keithley   April 10, 2026

Without any significant fanfare, or as far as we can determine, public discussion, Senate Joint...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The PFD debate

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April 4, 2026

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Why Gov. Dunleavy’s sales tax takes less from middle and lower-income families than Rep. Galvin’s income/education tax

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March 27, 2026

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: What the Spring Revenue Forecast tells us about the need for oil tax reform

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March 20, 2026

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Thoughts on changing the POMV draw percentage

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March 13, 2026

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Stabilizing Alaska’s boom-bust-boom-bust revenue cycles

Brad Keithley   March 6, 2026

As we have discussed in previous columns, one of, if not the greatest, causes of Alaska’s fiscal problems is the use of projected year-ahead oil...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Why “Protect the Permanent Fund” is really “Protect the Spend”

Brad Keithley   February 27, 2026

Two slides, the first in a recent presentation before the Senate Finance Committee by the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC), and the...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Significantly reducing the impact of the state’s fiscal burden on Alaskans

Brad Keithley   February 20, 2026

An exchange earlier this week with an interested reader helped us realize that some aren’t appreciating the full impact of various fiscal options on Alaska...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The impact of Gov. Dunleavy’s proposed sales tax by legislative district

Brad Keithley   February 13, 2026

Replacing cuts in the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) with the type of sales tax recently proposed by Governor Mike Dunleavy (R - Alaska) as a...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: More on the Governor’s proposed fiscal plan and its impact on Alaska families

Brad Keithley   February 6, 2026

In this week’s column, we continue to analyze elements of Governor Mike Dunleavy’s (R - Alaska)...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The Governor’s proposed fiscal plan: Examining whether it balances, and putting the “regressivity” of his sales tax in context

Brad Keithley   January 30, 2026

In last week’s column...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Our initial reactions to Gov. Dunleavy’s [maybe] proposed fiscal plan

Brad Keithley   January 23, 2026

After already having set a dollar target for the “New Revenue Measures” required to balance the state’s budget over the next ten years in the...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Protecting the Permanent Fund corpus

Brad Keithley   January 16, 2026

One of the carryover proposals likely to receive serious consideration as the Legislature returns this session is the proposed Constitutional amendment to turn the Permanent...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The Gaffney Cline Report hits at least one nail squarely on the head

Brad Keithley   January 9, 2026

The latest report on the Alaska LNG project submitted by legislative consultants Gaffney, Cline & Associates - “Key Issues - Legislative and Policy Options for...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The PFC’s “Maginot Line” investment strategy

Brad Keithley   January 2, 2026

In the news deadzone of Christmas week, 84 days after the close of the fiscal quarter, the Permanent Fund Corporation (PFC) finally posted its "Investment...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: A third, a third, and a third

Brad Keithley   December 19, 2025

While not everything the governing statutes require, the fiscal submissions last week and this week by the administration of Governor Mike Dunleavy (R - Alaska)...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: They don’t really object to “free money;” they just want more of it to flow to their pockets instead

Brad Keithley   December 15, 2025

Some recent comments reminded us that it's been a while since we wrote about the Tax Avoidance...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Dahlstrom is gaslighting Alaskans

Brad Keithley   December 5, 2025

In a recent op-ed in the Anchorage Daily News, current Lieutenant Governor - and declared candidate for Governor - Nancy Dahlstrom (R - Alaska) urges...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: How the Legislature is deepening the disconnect between Alaska and Alaskans

Brad Keithley   November 28, 2025

In last week’s column, we compared nominal growth in Alaska’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to “real”...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Alaska v. Alaskans

Brad Keithley   November 21, 2025

Recently, we were in a discussion in which a participant argued that there is no basis for concern about the Alaska economy (nor, by implication,...
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