Chart of the Week

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

Brad Keithley April 4, 2026

As codified in current law, Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) functions much like a preferred corporate dividend. The amount is set by rule rather than determined periodically on an ad hoc basis, and must first be set aside from its source before other amounts are calculated. On Tuesday of this past week, early in the House Finance…

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

Brad Keithley
March 27, 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

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

Brad Keithley
March 13, 2026

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

Brad Keithley
March 6, 2026

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...

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...

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...

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