{"id":1053,"date":"2016-07-15T16:35:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T20:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2017-03-22T22:46:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T02:46:06","slug":"whats-behind-the-startling-decline-in-publicly-traded-u-s-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/whats-behind-the-startling-decline-in-publicly-traded-u-s-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s behind the startling decline in publicly traded U.S. firms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1160\" src=\"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/US-Pub-Firms-chart-1975-2015-1024x637.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"742\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/US-Pub-Firms-chart-1975-2015-1024x637.png 1024w, https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/US-Pub-Firms-chart-1975-2015-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/US-Pub-Firms-chart-1975-2015-768x477.png 768w, https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/US-Pub-Firms-chart-1975-2015-100x62.png 100w, https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/US-Pub-Firms-chart-1975-2015-862x536.png 862w, https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/US-Pub-Firms-chart-1975-2015-1200x746.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An underreported story of the last two decades is the sharp decline in the number of publicly traded U.S. firms. In 1996, U.S. stock markets boasted 7,322 listed firms. By 2015, however, that number had dropped by more than half, to 3,200. If we adjust for population, the U.S. had 2.2 public firms per hundred thousand people in 1975, but today that number has fallen to 1.1 public firms per hundred thousand people. The peak in 1996 was 2.7 public firms per hundred thousand. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/pubfirms0716\" target=\"_blank\"><em>continue reading . . .<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An underreported story of the last two decades is the sharp decline in the number of publicly traded U.S. firms. In 1996, U.S. stock markets boasted 7,322 listed firms. By 2015, however, that number had dropped by more than half, to 3,200. If we adjust for population, the U.S. had 2.2 public firms per hundred thousand people in 1975, but &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/whats-behind-the-startling-decline-in-publicly-traded-u-s-firms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-note","no-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}