The Weekly Top 3 (10.13.2025)

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 October 13, 2025. This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we discuss EIA’s most recent oil price forecast, why the oil futures market is starting to trend the same way, and what that means for Alaska’s fiscal situation (2:12); 2) we explain how all of the enthusiasm over the Ambler road and other new projects could end up causing even deeper PFD cuts (16:02); and 3) we explain how Jon Faulkner’s Permanent Fund inflation-proofing argument in Must Read Alaska undermines both the current two-account system and the PFD (35:39). 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. We join Michael weekly in the first hour of Tuesday’s show, from 6:25–7am, for a discussion between the two of us about our three issues.