But the shipowners, the merchants, the brokers, and the wholesale dealers, are so disinterested in the midst of all their crushing and elbowing for the sugar business, that they send men to parliament whose chief and great service is to maintain this fixity of quantity, and prevent a larger business for them.

ECONOMIST: Sugar

Now every night the integrator scours databases for product information from Japan, updates from a Nebraska manufacturer, warehouse inventory at its four distribution centers, wholesale transactions with the dealers, and local inventory and retail sales.

FORBES: Technology

Making sure that all dealers pay uniform wholesale prices for cars and trucks is a big aim of state franchise laws.

FORBES: Car Dealers Usually Like Getting Money, But Not Like This

Vehicle damage reports like CarFax are widely available on the Internet and make it easy to spot cars that have been suffered heavy flood damage, said Ricky Beggs, vice president and managing editor of Black Book, a guide to the wholesale market for used car dealers.

WSJ: What Happens to All Those Swamped Cars?

The way the government securities market had worked until that point was that wholesale brokers like Cantor arranged trades between primary dealers.

FORBES: Getting between the wall and the wallpaper