Number of Banks in the U.S., 1966-2017 (Graph)
The total number of commercial banks in the U.S. began a period of dramatic decline in the late 1980s and early 90s. … Read More
Bank Market Share by Size of Institution, 1994 to 2018
As these six graphs show, bank market share has changed dramatically between 1994 and 2018 as giant banks have come to dominate the banking sector.… Read More
Small Business Lending by Size of Institution, 2018
In 2018, community-based financial institutions made 52 percent of all small business loans, even though they controlled only 16 percent of banking assets.… Read More
Distribution of Deposits and Assets by Size of Bank, 1994-2018
In the past decades, both total bank assets and total deposits have concentrated at the giant banks, those with over $100.2 billion in assets.… Read More
Small Business Loans as a Share of Assets, 2018
Small and mid-sized financial institutions devote a greater share of their assets to small business lending than big banks.… Read More
North Carolina Legislature Sides with Big Cable Providers, Foreshadowing Future Fights
Rural Pinetop residents are getting a glimpse of the treatment they are going to receive from Suddenlink, even before the ISP has started offering service in the small North Carolina community. According to locals, Suddenlink subcontractors are busting water mains, connecting fiber without homeowner permission, and spreading lies about the Town’s favored community-broadband provider, Wilson’s municipal network, Greenlight Community Broadband.… Read More
Listen: Stacy Mitchell on “We the Podcast” with Rep. Keith Ellison and Lina Khan
Taking on Amazon. It’s a big subject. But in this episode of Rep. Keith Ellison’s podcast, “We the People,” ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell and Lina Khan of Open Markets join Rep. Ellison to talk about how to do just that — and why we need to. … Read More
Watch: Stacy Mitchell on Amazon’s Stealth Invasion
In this talk, Stacy Mitchell discusses the findings of ILSR’s groundbreaking report on Amazon, and what the company’s growing dominance means for small businesses, jobs, and communities.… Read More
Watch San Francisco’s AnMarie Rodgers on How the City’s Formula Business Policy Works
In this 30-minute talk, AnMarie Rodgers, Senior Policy Advisor in the City of San Francisco Planning Department, breaks down the nuts-and-bolts of San Francisco’s pioneering formula business ordinance. She talks about how the city implemented the policy, how it works and how well it works — and what advice she has for other cities that want to do it too.… Read More