Chart of the Week

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Have Alaska Republicans given up on the market economy?

Brad Keithley   November 3, 2023

Fundamental to the operation of any market economy is the relatively unfettered operation of supply and demand in finding an equilibrium price for the...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: A tale of three fiscal subsections

Brad Keithley   October 27, 2023

AS 37.13.145 is one of the state’s key fiscal statutes. Titled “Disposition of income,” it sets forth the statutory principles that govern the disposition...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The Permanent Fund Board’s restructuring proposal is a horrible idea

Brad Keithley   October 20, 2023

Over the course of the past few months, there have been a series of articles in the press about a purported developing problem with...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Alaska’s “Tax Expenditures”

Brad Keithley   October 13, 2023

Tax expenditures are a departure from the “normal” tax code that lowers the tax burden of select individuals or businesses through an exemption, deduction,...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Fighting with straw men

Brad Keithley   October 6, 2023

A straw man fallacy is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: Who is the current Legislature’s least “regressive” member from a revenue perspective?

Brad Keithley   September 29, 2023

There have been several bills filed this session that would help close all or a portion of the state’s...

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The September 2023 state budget update

Brad Keithley   September 22, 2023

Last year, we began the practice of using columns in June and September to fill in gaps we believe exist in the Department of…

Brad Keithley’s Chart of the Week: The upcoming budget should continue to be based on the rolling 10-year average oil price

Brad Keithley   September 15, 2023

One of the little realized things about the FY2024 budget is that, whether intentionally or not, it is...

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...
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