Your share of the federal regulatory burden: $15,859 a year. It never appears on your tax return. CEI President @kentatcei walks through the numbers from @wayne_crews 2026 Ten Thousand Commandments report, and what Congress should do about it.

Americans look to GDP to measure prosperity, but GDP only shows the results of prosperity, not how it was created. Read more: bit.ly/4jqMuoA

Merck and Moderna's personalized cancer vaccine delayed recurrence and spread in a 1,137-patient Phase 3 melanoma trial. CEI's Jeremy Nighohossian has this week in health policy: bit.ly/4zMYYvD

Thanks to the revolution in fracking, America has plentiful and affordable supplies of natural gas. CEI's Ben Lieberman on this winter's heating bill relief, and the fight to keep it: bit.ly/4B9Gkzt

Bottom-50% household wealth, inflation-adjusted, has more than doubled since 1989 — from about $700 billion to $1.7 trillion. CEI's @RegoftheDay: that's the number that actually matters, not the Gini coefficient. bit.ly/4BgMX35

States have passed more than 100 AI laws in just the first half of this year. CEI's @KentatCEI: that patchwork burdens startups, favors big incumbents, and hands China an advantage. Congress should preempt it. bit.ly/4dK8QxL

How bad was life before industrialization? Very. @chellivia joins @freethe_economy Ep. 197 to walk through the history. Plus: energy security and a new tariff lawsuit. bit.ly/4eR96eC

People are paying more for the same amount of energy as before the Iran war, CEI's @RegoftheDay writes in the @WSJ, and that leaves less money for food, housing, and investment. bit.ly/3VSb2Ns

The real danger to American self-government isn't a policy fight inside the right, it's pundits openly attacking representative government itself, writes CEI's @RichardMorrison in a review of Stephanie Slade's "Fusionism." bit.ly/4zKN4CA

"A law sold as making fuel affordable and assuaging consumers' fear made food unaffordable." CEI's @KentatCEI on the ethanol mandate, and the warning it holds for today's rush to regulate AI. cei.org/opeds_articles/why-w…

Electric heating costs projected up 4% this winter; heating oil up 21%. Natural gas heating bills down 9%. CEI's Ben Lieberman breaks down the EIA's winter fuel forecast, and the policy fight behind it. bit.ly/4B9Gkzt

GDP records prosperity, but it doesn't explain where it came from. CEI's Avery Schreck argues real wealth comes from people creating value through effort, creativity, and exchange. bit.ly/4jqMuoA

Merck's CEO says the six-week production time for its personalized cancer vaccine will shorten over time. CEI's @JNighohossian leads this week's health policy roundup with the latest on that vaccine: bit.ly/4zMYYvD

Rare good news on energy bills: the EIA projects natural gas heating costs will fall this winter compared to last year. CEI's Ben Lieberman on why, and what it will take to keep it that way: bit.ly/4B9Gkzt

Higher GDP per capita tracks with longer life expectancy, lower child mortality, and higher literacy. CEI's Avery Schreck argues GDP and well-being are more closely linked than critics admit. Read here: bit.ly/4jqMuoA

Congress's 2005-07 ethanol mandates diverted corn into gas tanks and helped push roughly 100 million people into poverty worldwide, per the World Bank. CEI's @KentatCEI: Washington is about to make the same fear-driven mistake with AI. Read here: bit.ly/4dK8QxL

A recent analysis claimed the Iran-war oil shock could make the U.S. stronger. CEI's @RegoftheDay says it counts the gains to energy companies while ignoring the costs spread across every consumer. Read here: bit.ly/3VSb2Ns

FDR won a 4th term in 1944. The 22nd Amendment capping presidents at two terms passed just 7 years later, in 1951. CEI's @RichardMorrison: "No permanent majorities exist in a democratic polity." Read more: bit.ly/4zKN4CA

Entrepreneurs capture only about 2% of the value they create, per economist William Nordhaus. A $1 billion Bezos fortune means roughly $49 billion flowed to everyone else. CEI's @RegoftheDay on why market wealth is positive-sum. bit.ly/4BgMX35

Coming up Nov 4: a CEI book forum on @DrSamuelGregg's "The Civilization of Commerce," with CEI President @KentatCEI. Gregg argues markets are "part of a civilizational enterprise," not just an economic engine. Details: bit.ly/3UvvKCt