About this episode

The episode discusses key issues regarding Alaska's budget and economic strategies.

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 March 2, 2026. This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain why the Legislature should use the rolling 10-year average oil price in preparing the FY27 budget, rather than whatever will come from the snapshot of the current futures market being taken this month in the midst of what's happening in the Middle East (2:26), 2) we review two slides included in Permanent Fund Corporation advisor Callan's presentation last week which undermine both the claim that the PFC is doing "well" compared to its peers, and that even a 4% POMV draw rate adequately protects the Permanent Fund corpus (17:35), and 3) we discuss why a distributional analysis of who pays under any given revenue approach is critical to both the legislative process and the long-term well being of both Alaska families and the Alaska economy (39:10).

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