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A middleman adds to the seller's expense and the buyer's price without providing a service to either. attempts to prevent buyers from finding sellers. promotes trade by lowering the transaction costs of buyers and sellers. acts as a liaison between top management and the hourly employees. 

          A middleman
adds to the seller's expense and the buyer's price without providing a service to either.
attempts to prevent buyers from finding sellers.
promotes trade by lowering the transaction costs of buyers and sellers.
acts as a liaison between top management and the hourly employees.
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A middleman adds to the seller's expense and the buyer's price without providing a service to either. attempts to prevent buyers from finding sellers. promotes trade by lowering the transaction costs of buyers and sellers. acts as a liaison between top management and the hourly employees.

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00:01 So here we're thinking about the supply side and you want to know when suppliers have a lot of power, right? so a actually sounds very promising.
00:12 Few suppliers, which is good.
00:14 Think of monopoly, right? monopoly is when there are few suppliers and the monopoly has all the power, right? so few suppliers is getting close to the monopoly situation.
00:28 And when it's difficult to industry members to switch, right, you've got plus trapped.
00:36 So to me, a is actually the right answer.
00:40 There are few suppliers, and that means the suppliers have market power, and the industry members are trapped.
00:46 So the suppliers have the industry members hostage.
00:48 A is absolutely correct.
00:50 Let's go through the rest and why they're wrong...
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