The Monopolists Are Winning

Run rake graphs or just rake to generate the static graphs. These are stored under ./static-graphs/raw.

Touched-up versions of the raw graphs are stored under ./static-graphs/final.

Use rake report to generate an RMarkdown report describing what the static graphs tell you about market concentration in the US.

Sources

Concentration ratio data is from the US Census Bureau economic census.

Business formation data is from a separate business formation dataset also maintained by the US Census Bureau.

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau maintains a database of complaints here.

A Selection of Static Graphs