Tightly controlled companies are the unloved children of the public markets, because they concentrate decision - making in the hands of the few to the exclusion of a firm's wider shareholder base. (canadianbusiness.com)
While quashing traditional media mergers like the one between AT&T and Time Warner might produce greater competition and lower cable costs for a few years, it will cement control over the future of the entertainment industry in the hands of a few large technology companies. (fortune.com)
Economic growth has traditionally meant that everyone is better off, but in Canada the latest surge of growth simply concentrated income gains in the hands of a few, with the richest 1 % taking almost a third of all income growth between 1997 and 2007. (canadianbusiness.com)