The Weekly Top 3 (3.9.2026)
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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 March 9, 2026. This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain how SB 274 — the Senate Finance Committee’s proposal to reduce the level of the annual POMV draw from the Permanent Fund — is applying the wrong lesson taken from the performance of the Permanent Fund Corporation (2:18), 2) we discuss whether the market dynamics behind the #AKLNG project have changed as a result of the effects of the military operation in Iran (19:24), and 3) we explain why the legislature should ignore the oil price derived from the Spring Revenue Forecast when setting the FY27 budget and instead use the rolling 10-year average price (38:41). 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 March 9, 2026. This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain how SB 274 — the Senate Finance Committee’s proposal to reduce the level of the annual POMV draw from the Permanent Fund — is applying the wrong lesson taken from the performance of the Permanent Fund Corporation (2:18), 2) we discuss whether the market dynamics behind the #AKLNG project have chang...
Chapters
- 0:10 Opening And Weekly Top Three Preview
- 2:18 SB 274 And The POMV Stepdown
- 5:30 Incentives And PF Corporation Performance
- 9:40 The PFD At Risk Under A Lower Draw
- 13:40 Passive Index vs Active Fees Debate
- 16:35 “Lower Of” Draw Proposal Explained
- 18:15 Transition To AKLNG And Iran War Effects
- 21:00 Why Temporary Shocks Don’t Lift AKLNG
- 24:10 Cost Stack And Timeline Reality Check
- 28:00 “Show Me The Money” On AKLNG
- 31:00 Legislative Control And Geisel’s Bill
- 35:30 Complexity, Taxes, And Investor Flight
- 38:42 Ignoring The Spring Forecast
- 42:20 Futures Volatility And Budget Risk
- 46:00 Use Rolling Averages Like Other States
- 49:00 Politicized Pricing And Structural Reform
- 53:00 Middle-Class Impact And Outmigration
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