The Great Corporate Extinction

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2023 saw a record number of new businesses being created here in America, with five and a half MILLION new companies being registered within the year.
Data hasn’t been published for 2024 yet, but most expectations suggest this record could be broken again.
At the same time it seems like every pre-revenue, pre-idea, pre-clue startup that vaguely mentions artificial intelligence is getting billions of dollars thrown at them by cashed up investors.
And yet there is a problem that you may not have noticed.
There just aren’t that many companies anymore.
In 1996 the market hit an all time record of 8,090 companies publicly listed on the various stock markets around America.
Today almost 30 years later, despite the economy being THREE times larger, and the market handling about SEVEN times as much capital, there are fewer than HALF as many companies publicly available to buy shares in.
There are a lot of theories about what is going on here, from private equity making wall street irrelevant, corporate consolidation, to the dwindling savings of average investors.
BUT there are some even bigger issues at play here.