Corporate Inequality Killing Innovation?

The topic of wealth inequality has been widely discussed over the past few years as quantitative easing has helped improve the fortunes of the world’s richest while doing little to help those at the bottom. For the most part, such discussions have focused on individuals, but increasingly the concept of inequality is starting to be applied to the corporate world better known as Corporate Inequality.

According to Societe Generale’s Global Quantitative Research analysts, corporate wealth inequality is just as prevalent as individual inequality. The bank’s Global Quantitative team look at this topic in a research note sent to clients. The key finding of the report is that the biggest US companies remain very profitable while the large majority of US...