Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Focusing on the forest
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...
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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
In the wake of President Trump’s emphasis on opening additional federal lands in Alaska for oil...
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
In recent conversations, some have continued to use the impact of federal income taxes on Permanent...
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
While many Alaskans believe that Alaska’s revenue stream, which funds both government and
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Updating some monthly charts on the Permanent Fund
Brad Keithley June 20, 2025
As regular followers of our Facebook, LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), and
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...