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Broker Transparency & Personally Identifiable Information

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By Michael Darden
| Supply Chain Brain Verified
The 2024 Broker Transparency NPRM reinforced valid broker registration and 48-hour post-delivery record visibility. However, it critically failed to outlaw contractual waivers of transparency rights, or to mitigate arbitrary or vindictive blacklisting and unethical discrimination. The Broker Transparency Rule faced repeated administrative delays, from May 2025 to May 2026, and remained unreleased past its most recent July 2026 NPRM release target.
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Cigarette Taxes and the Household Budget

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By Michael Darden, Reginald B. Hebert, Michael Pesko, Samuel Sturm
| Cato Institute Verified
Cigarette smoking remains the greatest cause of preventable mortality in the United States, and cigarette excise taxes are commonly used to deter tobacco use. Despite much existing research on the effects of cigarette taxes on smoking prevalence, very little is known about how smokers reallocate their household budgets when cigarette taxes increase.
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Cigarette Taxes and the Household Budget

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By Michael Darden, Michael Pesko, Reginald B. Hebert, Samuel Sturm
| National Bureau of Economic Research
Research reported in this publication was supported by the University of Kentucky’s Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise and by the National Institute On Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01DA045016. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. We appreciate research assistance from Guthrie Scoblic.
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