The Market rose, The Market fell.
But The Corporation kept growing, no matter what.
They always beat The Market.
Literally. They sent out goons with clubs to beat The Market.
They beat The Market into submission.
Then, they crushed The Competition.
They sent out large bulldozers and steamrollers to crush The Competition.
After that, they gobbled The Competition up.
Going out to the crushed bits of The Competition, putting napkins in their collars, and gobbling it up.
They cornered The Market, pushing The Market into a corner.
Which was easy, since they’d beaten The Market into submission a while back.