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The Rise Of Big Potato

Katya Schwenk | Lever | 2nd January 2025

There are four major distributors of frozen potato products — french fries, hash browns, and so on — in the US. A couple of years ago, customers began to suspect this quartet was operating as a cartel, with identical price increases informed by alleged data sharing. An antitrust suit against "Big Potato" is ongoing, but this is merely the latest in an economy-wide trend towards monopoly (2,600 words)

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Some Principles

Emily Wilson | 31st December 2024

Rules for translators. The translation should honour and echo the form of the original, via a metre or verse structure. It should read with the same pace and evoke the same emotions. Don't re-translate something unless you have a fresh perspective to offer. Keep reading the original text "until you're breathing it, tasting it, dreaming it". Always keep going, even when it is difficult (900 words)

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