Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The upcoming budget should continue to be based on the rolling 10-year average oil price
September 15, 2023
One of the little realized things about the FY2024 budget is that, whether intentionally or not, it is...
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Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: What’s going on with the Earnings Reserve Account
Brad Keithley September 8, 2023
Monthly following the publication by the Permanent Fund Corporation (PFC) of its Financial Statement and History and Projections,…
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The misleading narrative and its consequences
Brad Keithley September 1, 2023
In a recent article carried by Alaska Public Media, reporter Robert Woolsey references Senator Bert Stedman (R - Sitka) in concluding that overdraws...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Looking at the most recent IRS data
Brad Keithley August 25, 2023
Readers of these columns will know that we regularly analyze the distributional impact of various fiscal measures – taxes, cuts in the Permanent Fund…
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Here’s how – and how much of the – PFD cuts are ending up in the bank accounts of non-residents & oil companies
Brad Keithley August 18, 2023
Over the course of the past few months, we have...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Is the Governor telling Wall Street something different than Alaskans?
Brad Keithley August 11, 2023
In a recent press release, Governor Mike Dunleavy (R - Alaska) and Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Whose money are we speculating with?
Brad Keithley August 4, 2023
A recent article in the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman dredged up some old memories about past “big” capital projects, which, in turn, is causing us...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The $100,000 Dividend
Brad Keithley July 28, 2023
Last month we wrote a couple of columns on these pages discussing the Tax Avoidance Dividend (or TAD). The TAD is the flip side...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: “Who pays” is a co-equal fiscal issue
Brad Keithley July 21, 2023
One of the most troubling aspects of Alaska state fiscal policy is the failure of policymakers and others regularly to consider the issue of...
Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Who pays for the Jones Act
Brad Keithley July 14, 2023
While because of its significance and Alaskans’ ability directly to control the outcome, we focus most often on these pages on the economic impact…