Published inAlaskans for Sustainable BudgetsThe Friday Alaska Landmine: SB 21 is brokenThe Department of Revenue’s Spring Revenue Forecast clearly shows SB 21 has become badly broken and is no longer generating the benefits to…6d ago6d ago
Published inAlaskans for Sustainable BudgetsThe Weekly Top 3 (3.24.2025)Combining the Permanent Fund corpus and earnings reserve opens the door to draining the corpus, the House Rs position on oil taxes undoes…Mar 25Mar 25
Published inAlaskans for Sustainable BudgetsThe Friday Alaska Landmine column: Why the Permanent Fund Corporation’s investment approach may…The Permanent Fund is growing and earning significantly less than it should. That could easily become a major campaign issue in an era of…Mar 22Mar 22
Published inAlaskans for Sustainable BudgetsThe Weekly Top 3 (3.17.2025)How the Permanent Fund Corp is leaving a lot of money on the table, what both the right and left are missing about the Hilcorp Loophole &…Mar 18Mar 18
Published inAlaskans for Sustainable BudgetsThe Friday Alaska Landmine column: How much are we leaving on the POMV table?The Permanent Fund Corporation is managing the Permanent Fund much too conservatively and much too expensively. Here’s the resulting level…Mar 15Mar 15
Published inAlaskans for Sustainable BudgetsThe Weekly Top 3 (3.10.2025)The battle over #WhoPays for Alaska spending, the push by the Senate Majority (& Minority) to raid the Permanent Fund corpus & the #AKLNG…Mar 11Mar 11
Published inAlaskans for Sustainable BudgetsThe Weekly Top 3 (3.3.2025)Why oil tax reform is needed, the fiscal irresponsibility of those pushing K-12 & defined benefits, and how both the left and right are…Mar 11Mar 11
Published inAlaskans for Sustainable BudgetsThe 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…Mar 8Mar 8
Published inAlaskans for Sustainable BudgetsThe Friday Alaska Landmine column: Alaska has a revenue design problemNever-ending arguments about whether Alaska has a spending or revenue problem miss the point. The real problem is that Alaska uses a…Mar 1Mar 1
Published inAlaskans for Sustainable BudgetsThe Weekly Top 3 (2.24.2025)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 February…Feb 25Feb 25