Chart of the Week

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Dunleavy came in promising to “Save the PFD,” but is going to leave having helped kill it

Brad Keithley   May 2, 2025

Most who were here at the time of the 2018 governor’s race will recall that central to now-Governor Mike...

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…
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