When a publication as pro-free-market as The Economist is bemoaning increased concentration and inadequate competition, documenting a $10 trillion wave of mergers since 2008 and that two-thirds of the economy has concentrated since 1997, you know the situation is dire.

XREF: Connects to broader antitrust and market concentration discourse, and the $10 trillion mergers since 2008 figure is a citable stat.

Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, loc. 461