Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Wait, what? Oil production volumes are projected to grow by a lot, but overall, state revenues from them are dropping
January 5, 2024
As we noted in our column two weeks ago...
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Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Our first look at Gov. Dunleavy’s FY25 Budget & 10-year Plan: Part 2
Brad Keithley December 29, 2023
This week, we publish Part 2 of our initial look at Governor Mike Dunleavy’s (R - Alaska) recently proposed Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Budget...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Our first look at Gov. Dunleavy’s FY25 Budget & 10-year Plan: Part 1
Brad Keithley December 22, 2023
This week, we publish Part 1 of our initial look at Governor Mike Dunleavy’s (R - Alaska) recently proposed FY 25 Budget and 10-year...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Fiscal baselines
Brad Keithley December 15, 2023
Governor Mike Dunleavy (R – Alaska) released his proposed FY2025 budget and 10-year plan as we completed this week’s column yesterday. We are digging…
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Preparing for next week’s “Budget Day”
Brad Keithley December 8, 2023
In addition to the upcoming holidays, as the calendar hits December, we start thinking also about the upcoming “Budget Day,” the day by which…
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: How Larry Persily (and others) misstate the real issue
Brad Keithley December 1, 2023
In the middle of a recent column on the Anchorage Daily News (ADN) op-ed pages ostensibly about Thanksgiving, “long-time Alaska journalist,…
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: “Free money” subsidies
Brad Keithley November 17, 2023
If there were no Permanent Fund earnings, there would be no Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD). But there also would be no Permanent Fund earnings...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The Alaska House Coalition is lying
Brad Keithley November 10, 2023
An op-ed published on the pages of the Anchorage Daily News last week written by Representative Alyse Galvin (I - Anchorage) and co-signed by...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Have Alaska Republicans given up on the market economy?
Brad Keithley November 3, 2023
Fundamental to the operation of any market economy is the relatively unfettered operation of supply and demand in finding an equilibrium price for the...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: A tale of three fiscal subsections
Brad Keithley October 27, 2023
AS 37.13.145 is one of the state’s key fiscal statutes. Titled “Disposition of income,” it sets forth the statutory principles that govern the disposition...