Nearly 7 gigawatts of new power generation capacity came online in the first quarter of 2019 — 13 percent of which from small-scale solar installations — in the latest update from ILSR’s Energy Democracy Initiative. Renewable resources claimed a majority share of new power generation for the second quarter in a row.… Read More
Credit card lending has seen major growth for banks in the past decades. Giant banks dominate credit card lending today, with a 65 percent share.… Read More
The number of community banks has declined sharply in the last decade. Most of the decline is owed to the fact that virtually no new banks have been created since 2009. Why the sudden absence of new banks?… Read More
The share of U.S. deposits held by the largest financial institutions has exploded from 8 percent in 1994 to 52 percent in 2018, as these three charts show.… Read More
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
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
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
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 and mid-sized financial institutions devote a greater share of their assets to small business lending than big banks.… Read More
