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The Friday Alaska Landmine column: The Legislature badly needs to fix production taxes before we continue to “drill, baby, drill.”
This week, we examine the potential consequences of "drill, baby, drill" on state finances. In the absence of repairing the state's badly broken oil tax…
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Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (7.21.2025)
The significant state revenue downside of Conoco's exploration program, why #AKLNG is not a 'fix' to Alaska's fiscal issues & how the OBBA may make…
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Brad Keithley
The Friday Alaska Landmine column: Why the federal tax impact on PFDs is not a valid basis for supporting PFD cuts
Some argue the federal tax take from PFDs justifies using PFD cuts to raise state revenues. But that ignores the offsetting impact of other approaches…
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Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (7.14.2025)
The OBBA increases access but will it result in new state revenues, the fundamental economic issue on which the candidates for #AKgov should focus & how…
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Brad Keithley
The Friday Alaska Landmine column: The Permanent Fund Corporation’s most recent numbers show it continues to underperform
The numbers are clear. The PFC is significantly underperforming in managing Alaska’s most important fiscal asset. In doing so, it is costing Alaskans a…
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Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (7.7.2025)
Is Elon Musk the new Ross Perot (and what that might mean if he is), how will the OBBA affect the issues facing the Legislature & our reaction to Gov…
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Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (6.30.2025)
The hypocrisy of Alaska's politicians; while the Permanent Fund Corp tries to talk a good game, their actual numbers are bad compared to the…
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Brad Keithley

June 2025

The Weekly Top 3 (6.23.2025)
Where are oil prices headed now, the US Senate adopts the same budget gimmick as the #akleg & why the Alaska budget outlook will become even worse if we…
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Brad Keithley
The Friday Alaska Landmine column: Updating some monthly charts on the Permanent Fund
This week, we are making some revisions to one set of our monthly charts to help those interested in better understanding the Permanent Fund and its…
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Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (6.16.2025)
Where oil prices are likely headed, the issue that should be at the heart of the education (or any #akleg) task force & an event that sends a huge…
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Brad Keithley
The Friday Alaska Landmine column: What an Anchorage Daily News story on the Permanent Fund missed
The POMV draw and PFD would be significantly larger under a relatively well-known and much lower-cost alternative investment approach. The Anchorage…
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Brad Keithley
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The Weekly Top 3 (6.9.2025)
The issues around terminating Cosmopolitan, the important part that's missing in a recent child care op-ed & why what didn't happen at Gov Dunleavy's…
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Brad Keithley
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