Seems like an extreme extrapolation. I found this page listing Fortune 500 companies that failed from Dec 2000 to Jan 2012: http://traderhabits.com/86-of-the1

Seems like an extreme extrapolation. I found this page listing Fortune 500 companies that failed from Dec 2000 to Jan 2012: http://traderhabits.com/86-of-the1955-fortune-500-have-failed/ http://traderhabits.com/86-of-the1955-fortune-500-have-faile... I don't know how accurate that is, but it lists 24 failures (about 5% of the Fortune 500), of which one company (Hostess) is listed twice, and at least two (American Airlines and GM) are still around.