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   "url": "https://thedeltaarc.com/research/pattern-and-noise/status-collapse/",
   "title": "Status Collapse: One Error in Five Fields",
   "summary": "Approved, queued, funded, reopened and active all hide several states in one word. The fix is the same in every field.",
   "date_published": "2026-11-02T12:00:00+00:00",
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   "id": "https://thedeltaarc.com/research/evidence-briefs/inventories-to-sales-ratio-procurement-limits/",
   "url": "https://thedeltaarc.com/research/evidence-briefs/inventories-to-sales-ratio-procurement-limits/",
   "title": "What the inventories-to-sales ratio tells procurement teams",
   "summary": "The US inventories/sales ratio is a revisable, nominal, national aggregate: useful macro context, not a supplier or category signal.",
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   "id": "https://thedeltaarc.com/research/evidence-briefs/negative-option-rule-status-chronology/",
   "url": "https://thedeltaarc.com/research/evidence-briefs/negative-option-rule-status-chronology/",
   "title": "Click to cancel: final, effective, then vacated",
   "summary": "The FTC's 2024 Negative Option amendments moved from proposed to final, effective and vacated, with a stay denied along the way.",
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   "title": "New Orders, Shipments and Production Measure Different Things",
   "summary": "What the Census M3 survey and Federal Reserve G.17 each measure, how they are built, and what neither can establish.",
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   "title": "What a ClinicalTrials.gov record can establish",
   "summary": "A registry record shows what a sponsor submitted and NIH posted. It does not show results, scientific review or FDA evaluation.",
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   "title": "What FMCSA Carrier Records Can and Cannot Establish",
   "summary": "Operating authority, insurance filings, safety ratings and SMS data are separate records; active authority is not a safety rating.",
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   "title": "What a Form 13F Filing Can Establish",
   "summary": "Form 13F gives a delayed, partial view of reported quarter-end holdings, not current positions or intent.",
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   "title": "What a Poor Bridge Rating Can Establish",
   "summary": "A National Bridge Inventory Poor rating records component deterioration; it is not by itself a finding that a bridge is unsafe.",
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   "title": "Permits, starts, completions, spending: what each measures",
   "summary": "How Census permits, starts, completions and spending data differ, and what each can and cannot show a planner.",
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   "url": "https://thedeltaarc.com/research/decision-notes/a-monthly-drop-is-not-an-easing/",
   "title": "A Monthly Drop Is Not an Easing",
   "summary": "Retail beef prices fell in September and were still above last year. Both are true, and they answer different questions.",
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   "title": "A Cohort Rate Is Not a Conversion Factor",
   "summary": "Thirteen percent of past queue requests reached operation. That does not mean 13 percent of today's queue will.",
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   "url": "https://thedeltaarc.com/research/decision-notes/an-allotment-is-not-a-replacement/",
   "title": "An Allotment Is Not a Replacement",
   "summary": "A published funding allotment marks one step. It does not show a grant, a dollar spent or a pipe removed.",
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   "url": "https://thedeltaarc.com/research/decision-notes/reopening-is-not-closure/",
   "title": "Reopening Is Not Closure",
   "summary": "An authority returning to normal does not tell you which recommendations were closed. Those are separate records.",
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