Big Business Is Killing Innovation in the U.S. – The Atlantic

How big business jammed the wheels of innovation

The new antitrust crusaders are manning an old trench with fresh ammo. Brandeis was right, they argue, and the evidence of his rightness abounds: Citizens United has empowered business at the same time corporate profits have been hitting an all-time high; wages are stagnating at the same time stock buybacks and dividends soar; corporate mergers are spiking as entrepreneurship languishes; mom-and-pop stores are shuttering as corporate franchises fill the empty spaces.

Source: Big Business Is Killing Innovation in the U.S. – The Atlantic