ILSR's state-by-state guide to antitrust laws, and how those laws work to enable competition and level the playing field.
The decision to stop enforcing a single law decimated the independent grocery market and led to the dominance of big chains.
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...
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.…...
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...
Small and mid-sized financial institutions devote a greater share of their assets to small business lending than big banks.… Read More
Maps from eight cities show how numerous dollar stores have become in America and reveal a pattern between dollar stores and neighborhood income and race.
When you choose locally owned businesses for your shopping, you create a ripple effect. Our new infographic shows what happens when you shop local.
Thanks in large part to the Bank of North Dakota, community banks and credit unions are much more robust in North Dakota than in other...
As this graph shows, giant banks consistently make poorer lending decisions and write-off more bad loans than community banks do, and the financial crisis heightened...
This 90-second video shows how giant banks have devoured the banking sector over the past 20 years.… Read More
Walmart continues to expand, and rapidly. The company is now embarking on its third historic wave of store construction, with plans to build 440 to...
Thanks in large part to its Pharmacy Ownership Law, North Dakota outperforms neighboring states and the U.S. as whole on every key measure of...