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Too big for their boots? Are bigger companies slowing the economy.
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Too big for their boots? Are bigger companies slowing the economy.

Do big companies really inhibit competition? Would the world be a better place if they didn’t exist or were broken up. Steve thinks not. But their size highlights another issue.

The global share market has always been dominated by the US, now we’re seeing a number share of very large tech companies claiming a larger slice of that pie.  Even though they are trading with price to earnings ratios well beyond the historic average, these companies won’t fail. They dominate the market, with billions of customers, low production  cost…

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