The Weekly Top 3 (12.15.2025)
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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 December 15, 2025. For those who follow us, this is our last podcast for 2025. After taking a couple of weeks off for the holidays, we will return on January 6, 2026. This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain what the Department of Revenue’s Fall Revenue Forecast tells us about state petroleum revenues (2:07), 2) we explain what OMB’s 10-year forecast tells us about the outlines of a potential solution to the state’s never-ending fiscal crises (17:08), and 3) in our wrap-up to this, ourlast show of 2025, we do our annual “Christmas Top 3” (35:43). 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.
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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 December 15, 2025. For those who follow us, this is our last podcast for 2025. After taking a couple of weeks off for the holidays, we will return on January 6, 2026. This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain what the Department of Revenue’s Fall Revenue Forecast tells us about state petroleum revenues (2:07), 2) we explain what OMB’s 10-year forecast te...
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- 0:00 Setup And Weekly Top Three
- 2:25 What The Fall Revenue Forecast Reveals
- 6:45 Volumes Rise, State Revenues Fall
- 12:40 Alaska’s Shrinking Share Of Oil Income
- 20:45 Spending Pressures And PFD Cuts
- 26:50 Governor’s Ten‑Year Plan And Deficits
- 33:10 The Third‑Third‑Third Path To Balance
- 41:20 Politics, Incentives, And Willpower
- 49:20 Christmas Top Three: Family
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