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BIG by Matt Stoller How a Salt Monopoly Could Spike Car Accidents in the Midwest Michael Milken, private equity, and a salt roll-up are showing we re in for shortages and price spikes. Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly and finance. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… I write a lot about big tech, but today’s issue is about something so basic and fundamental we literally don’t think about it. Salt. Salt mining is one of humanities’ oldest industries, with wars fought over this commodity. Cities like Venice monopolized the salt trade in the middle ages for geopolitical reasons, and the British tried to block colonists from access to salt during the American Revolution to prevent their ability to preserve food. ....