Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets

Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets

Home
Notes
Chat
Archive
About
The Friday Alaska Landmine: SB 21 is broken
The Department of Revenue's Spring Revenue Forecast clearly shows SB 21 has become badly broken and is no longer generating the benefits to Alaskans…
 • 
Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (6.26.2023)
The argument missing from the PFD debate, what budget issues are coming next session & a recent development in the oil fields that could have a big…
 • 
Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (8.14.2023)
Dunleavy disappoints on the Special Session, #AKLNG has become Kabuki theater & should the Permanent Fund Corp open an ANC office
 • 
Brad Keithley
The Friday Alaska Landmine Column: #WhoPays for the Jones Act
Many realize the Jones Act results in higher costs to Alaskans. But not many have focused on which Alaska families are bearing the burden. Turns out…
 • 
Brad Keithley
The Friday Alaska Landmine column: A not-too-far-fetched “thought experiment”
We undertook a "thought experiment" to calculate what the value of the Permanent Fund would be today if it had been invested in an S&P proxy over the…
 • 
Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (7.17.2023)
Is the PFC being Chicken Little about Permanent Fund earnings, facing the critical question of 𝙬𝙝𝙤 should pay for K-12 spending & more questions…
 • 
Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (7.24.2023)
How $$oil is doing as a new FY begins; the $8 𝘽𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣 question around the PF ERA & how recent developments on an old capital budget project…
 • 
Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (8.21.2023)
Sen. Stedman’s red herrings, our reaction to former Sen. Joe Paskavan’s “single focus” fiscal solution & a good overview of the solutions to…
 • 
Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (8.7.2023)
How PFDcuts were used to buy the state's new bond rating, why including non-rez as part of the state's overall fiscal plan is important & the membership…
 • 
Brad Keithley
The Friday Alaska Landmine column: Permanent Fund "Performance"
This week, we compare the returns being generated by the Permanent Fund and the benchmarks the PFC uses against more broadly known measures like the S&P…
 • 
Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (10.24.2022)
The "Bi-Partisan Coalition's" platform, who should pay for increases in the K-12 BSA & the phrase "Don't tax me to pay a PFD" is wrong factually…
 • 
Brad Keithley
The Weekly Top 3 (7.31.2023)
The #AKdisconnect𝙨, the potential impact of a dispute over local contribution levels on state K-12 spending & the effect of inflation on construction…
 • 
Brad Keithley
© 2025 Brad Keithley
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture