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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: zzpat who wrote (32420)9/3/2017 11:38:26 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 362069
 
As you may know, around half of all publicly traded companies have disappeared since the late 1990s. We used to have well over 6000 US companies to invest in and now it's a little over 3000

That's largely because more companies have gone private.

If it actually does represent a decline in the number of companies, well big government would have a lot to do with it. Extensive regulation (and to a lesser extent taxes) discourage investment and favor larger established companies over smaller more numerous companies.

But fewer companies (and esp. fewer publicly traded companies) isn't the same as fewer jobs. Jobs did decline during the recession, and yes the recovery was slow (but long which mitigates the slowness), but there hasn't been a long term increase in unemployment.
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