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
March 27, 2026
Over the past couple of weeks...
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Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The Permanent Fund Investment Tradeoff: Higher Returns vs. Lower Variability
Brad Keithley May 1, 2026
A recent conversation reminded us of the need to finish an analysis we were challenged to undertake earlier this year concerning Permanent Fund...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Why a dedicated “Education Fund” would undermine a long-term fiscal plan
Brad Keithley
April 10, 2026
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: What the Spring Revenue Forecast tells us about the need for oil tax reform
Brad Keithley March 20, 2026
Regular, or even occasional, readers of this page will likely recall that, in previous columns, we have...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Thoughts on changing the POMV draw percentage
Brad Keithley March 13, 2026
Earlier this month, the Senate Finance Committee introduced Senate Bill (SB) 274, “An Act relating to the computation of the amount available for...
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...
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...