Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Updating some monthly charts on the Permanent Fund
June 20, 2025
As regular followers of our Facebook, LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), and
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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...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: HB 209: A wolf in sheep’s clothing
Brad Keithley May 11, 2025
On the heels of the Legislature’s expected approval of a $1,000 Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 – adjusted for inflation,…
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...