Chart of the Week

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Focusing on the forest

Brad Keithley August 3, 2025

One of the biggest challenges in discussing Alaska’s fiscal situation is to persuade listeners to focus on the full fiscal forest. When discussing fiscal issues, most focus one-at-a-time on various trees, such as spending levels, K-12 spending, oil taxes, Permanent...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The Legislature badly needs to fix production taxes before we continue to “drill, baby, drill”

Brad Keithley
July 25, 2025

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Why the federal tax impact on PFDs is not a valid basis for supporting PFD cuts

Brad Keithley
July 19, 2025

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The Permanent Fund Corporation’s most recent numbers show it continues to underperform

Brad Keithley
July 14, 2025

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Updating some monthly charts on the Permanent Fund

Brad Keithley
June 20, 2025

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: What an Anchorage Daily News story on the Permanent Fund missed

Brad Keithley June 13, 2025

As regular readers will know, we have written several times in recent months about the performance of the Permanent Fund Corporation (PFC) in managing...

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…

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)…

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

Readers of this column and other op-ed pages will know that the Legislature and others are in the...

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