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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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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
Think oil credits are big? There’s another even bigger category.
To provide a sense of scale, this week we compare the size of per-barrel oil tax credits to the even bigger set of tax credits created by PFD cuts
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Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (6.2.2025)
How the Permanent Fund's April results demonstrate our point, the potential impact of the Trump Admin's focus on Alaska & which "working people" Angela…
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Brad Keithley

May 2025

The Friday Alaska Landmine column: Financing the FY26 Budget
One-third of the revenue for the FY26 budget comes from PFD cuts - the largest share ever - which in turn is dumping a record fiscal burden on middle …
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Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (5.26.2025)
With nearly a third of FY26 spending covered by PFD cuts, we examine #WhoPays; Anna MacKinnon picks up from where she left off in the Senate & how the…
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Brad Keithley
Supplement to May 23, 2025, Alaska Landmine column
At the suggestion of some, we have developed additional charts that show the impact of implementing the approach we discuss in the column, effective as…
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The Friday Alaska Landmine column: Why the Permanent Fund earnings reserve account is not in danger of being drained
Some claim that, without merging the Permanent Fund's current two accounts into a single account, the Fund's earnings reserve account could fail. We…
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The Weekly Top 3 (5.19.2025)
The 10th year in a row and largest PFD cut yet, the latest spin from the Permanent Fund Corporation about their performance & how dealing with Alaska…
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