Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Dunleavy came in promising to “Save the PFD,” but is going to leave having helped kill it
May 2, 2025
Most who were here at the time of the 2018 governor’s race will recall that central to now-Governor Mike...
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Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Why the adoption of a one-account Permanent Fund would favor the current generation at the expense of future ones
Brad Keithley April 25, 2025
As some readers of this column may recall, we have...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The badly unbalanced “balanced budget”
Brad Keithley April 18, 2025
Fiscal analysts use multiple lenses to evaluate whether a government budget is “balanced.” One is in an accounting sense of whether overall revenues equal...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: SB 21 is broken
Brad Keithley March 28, 2025
The typical flurry of legislative session op-eds warning against changes to oil taxes began the week before last. True to form, the season kicked…
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Why the Permanent Fund Corporation’s investment approach may become a major 2026 campaign issue
Brad Keithley March 22, 2025
In our last two columns, we have explained that the
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: How much are we leaving on the POMV table?
Brad Keithley March 14, 2025
Last week’s column focused on conducting a “thought experiment” on the Permanent Fund (Fund). It examined what would have happened if the balance of...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: A not-too-far-fetched “thought experiment”
Brad Keithley March 7, 2025
“Thought experiments are defined as the mental process of using hypotheticals to logically reason out a solution to a difficult question. As the name...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Alaska has a revenue design problem
Brad Keithley February 28, 2025
In a recent op-ed that is making its way through the state’s newspapers and other media outlets, former Revenue Commissioner Bruce Tangeman rhetorically asks,...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: How the Legislature should respond to the Hilcorp LNG proposal
Brad Keithley February 21, 2025
Earlier this month, Marathon Petroleum Corporation (Marathon), the owner of the Kenai oil refinery and various related assets, announced the proposed sale...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Revenues
Brad Keithley February 14, 2025
Those who follow these columns know that we have been discussing for nearly all of the time we have been writing them the fiscal…