June 30, 2025 -- Trump and Congressional Republicans' federal budget, the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," seeks to gut all state laws regulating AI for the next ten years. This gives code cartels -- the colluders using algorithms to fix prices for rent, healthcare, and groceries -- a free pass and harms consumers. In this episode, I discuss the implications of the measure. This episode is a read-aloud of my essay, "The Congressional Budget Bill is One Big Beautiful Boon for Code Cartels," published in ProMarket here: