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Re:Profits are too high. America needs a giant dose of compe... by hkmurakami on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @05:02AM (#11380310)
I think it's worth seeing how the breakdown turns out between the survivors and failures. Are the losses concentrated in a small number of major train wrecks or dispersed evenly? etc.
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Re:Profits are too high. America needs a giant dose of compe... by DavidHm on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @06:49AM (#11380600)
That makes sense, I would be interested to seeing that too.

For the purposes of assessing the industry's profitability though, we cannot exclude them - if losses are because they were badly run and lost market share to other players, then their losses will be offset by the survivals (who then buy them out).

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