Chart of the Week

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Here’s a significant part of the revenue problem

Brad Keithley   January 4, 2025

In our last column, we examined Governor Mike Dunleavy’s (R - Alaska) proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 10-year plan and expressed serious concern about both...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Dunleavy to potential investors and others: 🤷‍♂️

Brad Keithley   December 20, 2024

Although not widely understood, complying with AS 37.07.020(b)(2) is one of the Alaska governor's most important fiscal responsibilities. As part of the statutorily required responsibilities...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Alaska’s outmigration death spiral

Brad Keithley   December 13, 2024

An article in this month’s Alaska Economic Trends (Economic Trends) published by the state’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOL) and a recent follow-up...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: What we likely will see in the Fall Revenue Forecast and 10-year plan and the issues they will create

Brad Keithley   December 6, 2024

Since mid-November, we have been thinking about...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Comparing price projections

Brad Keithley   November 29, 2024

Earlier this month, the House Resources Committee held a hearing to receive updates on both the Cook Inlet gas issue and the Alaska LNG project....

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Why the coming candidates for governor should be thinking about revenue reform

Brad Keithley   November 16, 2024

Although we are still awaiting final results, with the 2024 midterm elections now largely in the rearview...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: How will the House Majority Coalition balance the budget?

Brad Keithley   November 8, 2024

We had planned to write about something else this week, but the quick announcement of the formation of a new “House Majority Coalition” to lead...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Here’s what we don’t understand

Brad Keithley   November 1, 2024

Two excerpts from recent news stories from Alaska Public Media caught our attention this past week and helped crystalize one of our biggest issues about...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Giving up on the PFD is giving up on the Alaska economy and Alaska families

Brad Keithley   October 26, 2024

In the adjacent “Facebook chat room” during the taping Tuesday of a segment on Alaska revenue...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: All the charts

Brad Keithley   October 20, 2024

While some may know us primarily or even only through these weekly columns, they represent only a small part of the work we do on...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: It’s all about the base

Brad Keithley   October 11, 2024

For some, the 2014 pop song “All About That Bass” is a long-forgotten “one-hit wonder.” For others, it’s an earworm - a recurring tune that...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: A relook at sales taxes

Brad Keithley   October 4, 2024

Over the years, we have been less than supportive of using a statewide sales tax to help address Alaska’s fiscal deficits. While certainly not as...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The Legislature to Alaska families – The less you make, the more we take

Brad Keithley   September 27, 2024

One of the things that disappoints most about the Alaska media is its ongoing failure to report on - or even reference - the hugely...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Growth rates

Brad Keithley   September 20, 2024

Occasionally, we check in on the contribution of various sectors to the overall Alaskan economy, where Alaskans are spending their money (and how much), and...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: What the latest state-level IRS data tells us

Brad Keithley   September 13, 2024

About a year ago, we took a look on these pages at what the then-most recent state-level data from the Internal Revenue Service told us...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Some observations on campaign positions

Brad Keithley   September 6, 2024

As we have read their position statements in the Alaska Beacon and on their websites and followed their social media posts, we have developed some...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Our monthly Permanent Fund charts

Brad Keithley   August 30, 2024

As some readers may be aware, monthly as the data becomes available, we post charts on our Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn pages and through them...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: An interim 2024 state revenue and budget update

Brad Keithley   August 23, 2024

Over the past two years, we have used columns during the summer and fall to fill gaps in the Department of Revenue’s (DOR) regular cycle...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Some follow-up on why there is not a Permanent Fund “fiscal crisis”

Brad Keithley   August 16, 2024

In last week’s column, we explained why claims by some that the Permanent Fund is facing a “fiscal...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: No, there is not – repeat, not – a Permanent Fund “fiscal crisis”

Brad Keithley   August 9, 2024

Sometimes we are accused of “burying the lead” to these columns by only reaching our primary point a few paragraphs down. Maybe that’s true. So,...
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