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Middlemen, known as forwarders, are increasingly hired by lenders to oversee the repossession process, pushing the companies that actually find and recover cars farther down the food chain, shrinking their profit margins.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

Middlemen purchase worms from the pickers for approximately $5 and will sell them to established shops in Yushu and other urban centers for a 10-20 percent markup.

From National Geographic • Jan. 4, 2024

Middlemen, who have the facilities to boil and dry the root, buy it from him and other farmers.

From Salon • Aug. 2, 2023

Middlemen put out the finished yarn for local women to weave in their homes.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Middlemen use privileged information and access - whereas speculators use information of a more public nature.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel