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 energy projects is like a game of whack-a-mole
Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of May 19, 2025.
The Weekly Top 3 is a regular weekly segment on The Michael Dukes Show. The Show broadcasts on Facebook and YouTubeLive as well as via streaming audio from the Show’s website weekdays from 6–8am. I join Michael weekly in the first hour of Tuesday’s show, from 6:10–7am, for a discussion between the two of us about our three issues.
This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain why this year’s PFD cut — which is the 10th in a row and the largest yet — is, like the others before it, nothing more than a bailout paid for by middle & lower-income Alaska families of the Top20%, non-residents, and the oil companies (2:18); 2) we discuss how, in its latest press release, the Permanent Fund Corporation is trying to divert attention away from its recent performance (19:40) and 3) we explain how dealing with supersized and uneconomic Alaska energy projects is like a game of whack-a-mole; just when you have one down, another pops up (38:31).
The segment is at the YouTube clip above. For those who prefer the audio version, it is available on our Spotify and Soundcloud pages. And for those interested, a rough draft of the transcript of each show from July 23, 2024, forward is available through our Buzzsprout page.
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