Farm bankruptcies on the rise according to new Fed report
Entrepreneurship is dying in America and it should concern us all.<p><a href="https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/research-matters/2018/02/bfs.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/research-matters/2018/...</a><p>While unemployment and asset prices have recovered in the past decade, business starts have remained at historic lows.  When these small businesses die they aren't being replaced by upstarts.  I wish we knew why.<p>I'm worried the future will be a small handful of oligopolist mega-corps.  You see this consolidation in every industry: banks have consolidated (there are fewer banks now than at any point in modern US history), a few leading tech firms, agriculture, energy, etc.