Are the Rothschilds and Rockefellers ruling the world? Is it really? Who are the Rothschilds and Rockefellers? Rothschilds and Rockefellers history of families and wealth

Nathan Rothschild and his family. The surname is a legend. A surname that is immediately associated with gold, with huge billions and world domination.

For most people, the crisis crept up unnoticed. But it’s noticeable and even painful. And now everyone is wondering - where did he come from? Did it arise on its own or was it created? If it was created, then who are these powerful people? And immediately conspiracy theories arise, talk about corporatocracy, names such as the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, and Morgans come up.
Who are these Rothschilds? Do they actually have world power or have they become legends and become more of a household name? In the process of studying the influence of the Rothschilds, I wavered several times in one direction or the other in answering these questions.

Yes, the Rothschilds exist. Moreover, surprisingly, there are many hundreds of them. And, again surprisingly, among the Rothschilds there are not only bankers, but also famous zoologists, botanists, entomologists, opera singers, gardeners, and art historians. And all of these are not namesakes, but representatives of the same dynasty, the same clan.

And perhaps this is precisely why they do not appear on the lists of the richest people in the world. This is not one person, this is a large family, which owns banks, public funds, financial companies, vineyards, lands, mines, tourism and hotel businesses, etc. And their strength lies not so much in capital, expressed in monetary terms, as in the connections between family members, each of whom “leads” his own branch. Their strength is in interaction and partnership. And also - in centuries-old relations with government circles in Europe, Great Britain and the USA.

The truth is that “everything is connected.” There is such a legend that founder of the Rothschild clan Mayer Amschel was a poor Jewish youth, collected old coins from various principalities of Germany, and, at an opportune moment, donated his collection to Prince William in exchange for the right to hang a sign “His Majesty’s supplier” above the entrance to his store.

As with any legend, this one contains some truth about the collection. But its role is by no means primary. According to the research of Heinrich Schnee in his work “The Rothschilds, or the History of the Dynasty of Financial Magnates,” the Rothschild family traces its roots back to the Khan family, who settled in the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt in the 16th century. By the time Meyer Amschel was born in 1744, his family had been successfully trading and running an antique shop for more than a century. Meyer's father intended him to become a rabbi. But after several unsuccessful years of study, Meyer realized that he was interested in trade. And then he was hired at the Hanoverian Oppenheim Bank (which at one time lent 85% of the Austrian budget). It was the center of court financiers, or, as they were otherwise called, “court Jews” or “court factors.” Court factors of that time handled almost all supplies to the royal court and international trade. They also supplied food and clothing for the armies, and were engaged in the “soldier trade,” that is, the formation of units of legionnaires and the “sale” of these units to other countries.

So, when the young twenty-year-old Meyer Amschel returned to Frankfurt, his business quickly took off, largely thanks to long-standing family ties with:

Crown Prince Wilhelm, who became William IX Landgrave and Elector William I of Hesse. He was indeed keen on collecting antique coins and medals, and Meyer supplied him with valuable pieces over the years.
the Minister of Finance, the sovereign Karl Friedrich Buderus, who is also the property manager and the privy adviser to the elector. He noticed the outstanding abilities of the young merchant, invested money in his enterprises for a share of the profits, and in return actively supported his promotion at the state level, crowding out competitors.

And yet, large fortunes are rarely made within a single generation. When Mayer Amschel died, he was neither the richest Jew in Frankfurt nor a rival to the major court factors of the time. Yes, he was rich, but much richer then were Yoel Gall, Marcus Baruch, Benedict Aron Maja, Gumpert Isaac Elias and Michael Speyer, whom no one remembers now. In his will of 1810, Mayer Amschel Rothschild determined the value of his company at 800 thousand florins. In the same year, the family of the court factor Oppenheim showed a net worth of one million French francs on the books.

We all love beautiful fairy tales, fabulous stories that we can idealize and dream about the realization of. And fairy-tale heroes, to either wait for them to come to the rescue, or without hesitation to blame the cause of all sorrows on them.
In many ways, the situation with the Rothschilds is similar to such a beautiful fairy tale.

Yes, the Rothschilds indeed became one of the most influential players in the European political and financial arena in the 19th century. Meyer Amschel (founder) had 10 children, including 5 sons, who inherited and continued his business in 5 different countries: Nathan went to England, to London, Solomon to Vienna, Amschel remained in Frankfurt, Kalman (Karl) went to Naples, and James (Jacob) - to Paris. Compared to other bankers, they became the first “transnational company” that, during the Napoleonic Wars, supplied troops on both sides of the barricades and won regardless of the outcome of the battle. In modern business parlance, they were "innovators" - they had the best of their own line of post horses between France and England, they had their own pigeon post, they were among the first to recognize the importance of rail travel and financed the railways of France, Belgium and Austria. In 1845, James Rothschild received a government contract to build the first railway line between Paris and Valenciennes. When the track was ready, it was combined with the Austrian line (built by his brother, Solomon) into a pan-European rail system.

Perhaps the Napoleonic Wars brought the most profit to the Rothschilds. In 1809-1810, the Elector of Hesse, through Privy Councilor Buderus, entrusted the Rothschilds in London to buy government loan bonds of England for 550 thousand pounds or 3 million 240 thousand 875 florins at the exchange rate of that time. This was a huge amount, and the Rothschilds had the opportunity to put this money into circulation for their own purposes for a short period of time. At the same time, England needed to transport gold to Spain through France for the allied army in the war against Napoleon. Nathan and James Rothschild took up this matter, one using influence and connections in England, and the second in France.

As admitted Nathan Rothschild in his letters: “When I opened a trade in London, a company from East India sold £800,000 worth of gold. I bought everything because I knew that the Duke of Wellington needed the gold. I purchased a large number of his bills at a cheap price. They called me to the government and said that they needed this gold, but they did not know how it could be delivered to Portugal. I took up this matter and sent the money through France. It was the most successful of all my ventures.”

The Rothschilds also profited from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Through the Parisian bank N.M. Rothschild and Sons carried out 5 billion French reparations to Germany.

However, using wars and starting wars are not the same thing. And in many cases, to the best of their ability and their advantage, the Rothschilds contributed to the preservation of peace, as evidenced by James’ letter to his brother Solomon in 1830: “We still have 18 million francs of nominal French rent. If peace remains, we will get 75%, and if war breaks out, then 45%... Believe me, in my opinion, now a lot depends on the prince (Metternich); if he wants peace... then there will be peace.” And there was no war with France after the July Revolution of 1830.

As a conclusion, we can say that the rise of the Rothschilds is based on personal connections, bribes, business acumen, good teamwork, modern “information technology,” and innovation.

But time passes and it is not always favorable even to the Rothschilds.

Amschel Meyer had no children, and he handed over the management of the Frankfurt House to Mayer's nephew Karl Rothschild of the Neapolitan branch. Mayer returned from Naples with his brother Wilhelm to continue the work of the Frankfurt house. In 1901, after the death of Wilhelm Karl Rothschild (Baron “Willy”), the Frankfurt Rothschild Bank ceased to exist.

The Austrian branch lasted until World War II. The Nazis confiscated the Rothschild banks and palaces. Some Rothschilds fled Vienna and settled in the United States. Baron Louis Rothschild (1882-1955) emigrated to Jamaica, where he died on January 15, 1955. Also during the war, the wife of the French Baron Phillipe de Rothschild died in concentration camps, and Elizabeth de Rothschild was not saved even by the fact that she was a Catholic - she also died in German concentration camps.

The French and English branches turned out to be the strongest, which have survived to this day. Bank N.M. Rothschild & Sons, founded in London by Nathan Meyer, still exists until 2004. Was one of 5 banks that set the world price of gold twice a day (“gold fixing”).

The Rothschild Bank in Paris was nationalized by the Germans during World War II. In the 1950s, Guy de Rothschild restored the banking business in France. The bank's general director from 1956-1962 was Georges Pompidou, who soon became President of France (1969-1974), and the Rothschild bank flourished. However, even here history reminds us that nothing lasts forever - in 1981 the Socialist government nationalized the successful Parisian Rothschild bank. Guy de Rothschild leaves for New York. And only in 1987 his son, Baron David de Rothschild, restored the family business in Paris, opening a new bank together with Eric Rothschild - Rothschild & Cie Banque (RCB).

On this note I would like to pause. After reading the history of the Rothschilds, they appear to be a large and close-knit family of aristocrats and businessmen. Strong, but not omnipotent, because they not only found, they also lost. Their banks are by no means the largest, not only in the world, but even in Europe. They are not “concerned” exclusively with finances - they plant gardens (about 100 gardens in Europe), grow grapes (Mouton-Rothschild wine was recently recognized as the best Mouton wine) ... Maybe, in fact, they are a respectable family in which everyone runs their own business along with many others businessmen in this industry? Maybe their strength is only in their numbers: one has a bank, another has mining companies in South Africa, a third financed the construction of the Supreme Court building in Israel in 1992, and together - wow, the Rothschilds!

So who are the Rothschilds now?

Strong is not the one who does not fall, but the one who, having fallen, rises, and who, having fallen many times, finds the strength to rise each time. The Rothschild bank in France was nationalized several times - they restored it. The Rothschild bank in Frankfurt has also now been restored.

Another criterion of strength can also be the fact that the total fortune of the Rothschilds inexorably continues to grow, experiencing wars and crises. And it looks like this is a trend of sustainable growth in the future.

To say that Rothschild caused the financial crisis is stupid. The crisis of the financial system has been brewing for a long time, just as an apple inevitably ripens on an apple tree. It’s just that someone planted this apple tree and knows its growth cycles, when it blooms, when the fruits ripen and when the leaves fall. And someone sits under it, and when the apple falls on him, he discovers a lot of new things.

Now the Rothschilds are:

Companies:

Bank "N. M. Rothschild & Son" (England).
Bank "Rothschild & Cie Banque" (France).
Concordia B.V. - a holding company headed by Baron David de Rothschild, co-owned by the London and Paris Rothschild banks, owning a controlling stake in the Swiss Rothschild holding company Continuation Holdings of Switzerland, as well as all shares of the American and Canadian Rothschild banks.
Insurance Fund Afficus Capital Inc (Nathaniel Rothschild)
Holding company “Societe d'investment du Nord”
Hedge fund Atticus Capital. Capitalization 14 billion dollars, Vice President - Nathaniel Rothschild, currently lost 5 billion due to the crisis.
Energy company Vanco International Limited. By the way, the recent scandal in Ukraine is connected with it. In May 2008, the Government of Ukraine (Tymoshenko) revoked Vanco Energy's license for oil exploration on the Black Sea shelf, openly accusing this American oil company, along with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, of holding secret negotiations with the Russian Gazprom. Tymoshenko supports the Ukrainian company Naftogaz of Ukraine in this conflict. Ukraine's terminated agreement with Vanco provided for the development of the shelf over 30 years and an investment of $15 billion. As always, in this case the standard “gift” tactics are applied. The winning bidder Vanco International Ltd transferred the rights to develop the shelf to a subsidiary company Vanco Prykerchenska Ltd (British Virgin Islands), retaining a 25% stake. At the same time, other 25% stakes belong to Akhmetov’s Donbass Fuel and Energy Company and Evgeniy Novitsky’s Shadowlight Investments Ltd.
Bank "JNR Ltd" (J. Aron & Nathan Rothshild Energy International Limited, Nathaniel Rothschild, investments in Ukrainian and Russian companies).
Hungarian development company Trigranit (Nathaniel Rothschild - 12%, investments in Russian real estate are estimated at $5 billion).
Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa (South Africa, a South African mining company engaged in the extraction of gold, diamonds, uranium and other minerals)
Rio Tinto is a mining company (coal, iron, copper, uranium, gold, diamonds, aluminum)
De Biers is an international company for the exploitation, processing and distribution of diamonds (Evelyn Rothschild)
Restaurant and hotel chain RLM (Eli Rothschild)
Bank Rothschild AG (Elie Rothschild, Switzerland)
FirstMark Communications International LLC and FieldFresh Foods (Evelyn Rothschild with her wife Lyn Forester)
Financing the Israel Oil Pipeline (Edmond Rothschild)
Music company F7 Music (Anthony Rothschild, USA, Brighton)
The castles of Chateau Mouton and Chateau Lafite, where the famous wine Chateau Mouton Rothschild, awarded the status of First Grand Cru Class, is produced.
More than 100 gardens and parks in Europe
The following publications and media also fall under the control or ownership of the Rothschilds:
Parisian publishing house “Press de la Cité” - property of the Rothschilds
French newspaper Libération
Economist, Daily telegraph (Evelyn Rothschild)
BBC (Edmund Rothschild's son-in-law Marcus Agius - head of the BBC)

The listed list of companies is far from complete; it only allows us to estimate the scale of the Rothschild “empire”. After all, power is not only money and companies that can be listed. As before, success is now largely determined by personal connections and well-prepared public opinion.

Evelyn Rothschild's wife Lyn Forester is a good friend of Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State. Georges Pompidou, former President of France, was a director of the Rothschild bank.

The Rothschilds' financing of the purchase of the Suez Canal for England and a letter from the British government addressed personally to Lionel Walter Rothschild about assistance in the formation of a Jewish state in Palestine can indicate the closest, long-standing ties with the British crown and parliament.

In 2004, the Rothschild bank N. M. Rothschild & Son has officially left the top five banks that set the world price of gold. The Rothschilds then justified this step by the decline in interest in commodity markets. But what do these words mean while they continue to actively fight for energy and raw materials? Now they are actively entering Kosovo, which is the “Serbian Kuwait” with huge deposits of tin, zinc, gold and coal.

Maybe the gold market has simply become too “small” for modern Rothschilds, uninteresting, like a passed stage?
Another reason for the Rothschilds leaving the gold market is their desire to focus on mergers and acquisitions. David de Rothschild said that Rothschild will pursue a more aggressive policy in the areas of real estate financing, natural resource extraction, as well as financing corporate mergers and acquisitions. This might actually be true. This market is especially relevant in times of crisis, when it is possible to buy bankrupt enterprises for next to nothing. And the Rothschilds began to strengthen the direction of corporate mergers in advance, 4 years before the crisis, in order to now approach it with a full set of trained specialists.

When I asked a lawyer friend: “How is the crisis affecting you?” He replied: “Of course, there’s a ton of work! Full of bankruptcies, lawsuits, courts!” So for some, a crisis means layoffs, and for others, a source of additional income.

So it is with the Rothschilds, for whom now, when many companies are approaching default, it will be the right time to reap the harvest and work on uniting weak and small companies into controlled large and strong corporations.

How the Rothschilds and Rockefellers got the Fed and will they be able to take control of the whole world.

“Give me the right to issue and control the money of the country, and I will not care at all who makes the laws!” - this phrase was uttered at the beginning of the 19th century by Mayer Amschel Rothschild. His descendants conscientiously fulfilled the wishes of their great-grandfather.

The version that a group of families led by the Rothschild clan has direct influence on world markets is called “ conspiracy theories" According to George Antin, author of Conspiracy Theory and the Conspiracy Mentality, a conspiracy theory is “an attempt to explain an event or series of events as the result of a conspiracy, that is, the actions of a small group of people working in secret to consciously control or reverse the development of something or other.” other historical events." It turns out that this theory assumes some kind of secrecy and conspiracy. However, even without any mystery, it is clear that the richest people on the planet have more opportunities than anyone else. “The conspiracy theory has no basis in anything. Explaining everything with conspiracies is a mania of persecution, this is an extreme humiliation of the people. At the same time, this does not mean that financial circles have no influence on events on a global scale,” said Joseph Diskin, co-chairman of the National Strategy Council.

Family bonds

Rockefellers, Morgans, Rothschilds, Kuhns, Loebs, Goldmans, Mellons, Saxons, Duponts, Lehmans... These are the names of those bankers and businessmen who laid the foundation for family capital back in the 17th-18th centuries. The most important thing for them then was the psychology of the clan: family business, dynastic marriages. As an example, the history of the development of the largest American bank in the 19th century, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. It was founded in 1867 by Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb. Under the leadership of manager Jacob Schiff, the bank successfully invested in more than promising American companies, including Western Union and Westinghouse. From 1907 to 1912 Kuhn, Loeb & Co. was a subscriber of shares (had a kind of options) for a total amount of $530 million. In the 20s of the last century, the bank was managed by other famous personalities - Otto Kahn, Felix Warburg, and Benjamin Buttenweiser. (By the way, there is evidence that it was they who financed the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. The relevant British intelligence reports are given in Henry Wickham Steed's book “After 30 Years, 1892–1922.”) In 1977, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. merged with Lehman Brothers to form Lehman Brothers, Inc. And seven years later there was a merger with American Express, which was founded by the Fargo and Butterfield families.

In turn, a quick glance at the genealogical intricacies of these families refutes even the hint of their rivalry with each other. Thus, Solomon Loeb's daughter married Jacob Schiff, and Felix Warburg married Solomon Loeb's granddaughter Nina. Benjamin Buttenweiser was married to the granddaughter of Lehman Brothers founder Abraham Lehman.

We found ourselves outside of this family Rockefellers And Morgans. Unlike Kuhn, Loeb and others who came to the United States from Europe, the Rockefellers and Morgans are Native Americans. John David Rockefeller was born in Richford, John Pierpont Morgan - in Boston. At one time there were rumors that the Rothschilds allegedly competed with the Rockefellers. However, the talk died down after JPMorgan, controlled by N. M. Rothschild & Sons, absorbed Chase Manhattan, the brainchild of David Rockefeller, in 2000, creating a hybrid JPMorgan Chase. As a result, the interests of the two sides were successfully united.

Rothschilds in the fog

About the contents of the pocket David Rockefeller, whose ancestor became the first dollar billionaire a hundred years ago, one can only guess. In 1913, the personal fortune of that same ancestor, John Rockefeller, was estimated at at least $1 billion (according to other sources, $6 billion). Taking into account US currency inflation and interest rates, $1 billion worth a hundred years ago is equivalent to $60 billion today.

As for the financier Nathaniel Rothschild, it is simply indecent to speak out loud about the real size of his fortune. Suffice it to say that his family has been successfully engaged in banking for about 200 years. Over the centuries, their ancestors grew capital, weaved intrigues, developed connections, and married children. And all this so that the descendants - the same David or Nathan - preserve and increase the family wealth. No one dares to give exact figures, but it is very likely that the total fortune of the Rothschilds today is measured in trillions of dollars.

Today, identifying the true owners of a large company or bank is like finding the trace of a viper on a stone. “Most people don't believe they own assets unless they have ownership documents. The Rockefellers know this is a big mistake. It is much more convenient to have assets owned by a trust or foundation that you control... The result is that the public has no way of assessing the Rockefeller fortune, let alone the influence and power of the family,” writes Gary Allen in The Rockefeller File . Nevertheless, some assumptions can be made from facts and documented history. For example, the Rockefellers, Morgans, Kuhns and Loebs control the financial conglomerate Citigroup, as well as JPMorgan Chase and ExxonMobil Corporation.

As for the Rothschilds, they occupy a special position: they have a share in the assets of all families and individually own the largest banks, public funds, investment companies, vineyards, lands, and mines. If the mystery shrouding the Rockefeller family is like a gray haze, then the information-impenetrable halo around the Rothschilds is like a dull fog. “I categorically and in the most decisive manner prohibit the holding of a judicial or public inventory of my inheritance, any judicial intervention and any publication of the size of my fortune” - this clause was contained in the will of the French millionaire Anselm de Rothschild, who died at the end of the 19th century. Among the Rothschilds there are not only bankers, but also famous scientists, opera singers, gardeners, and art critics.

Who does the Fed pay?

However, the wealth of wealthy families in America and Europe is not limited to high-yielding assets around the world. There is something more fundamental, namely Federal Reserve System USA. As legend has it, the organization was conceived at the beginning of the last century by a group of those same bankers - the Morgans, Rockefellers, Kuhns, Loebs, Goldmans, Mellons, Sachses, Duponts, etc. The decisive meeting took place at the end of November 1910 in the “hunting lodge” of John Morgan on Jekyll Island off the east coast of the United States.

Lobbying for the Federal Reserve Act in parliament was carried out by Republican Senator Nelson Aldrich, father-in-law of John Rockefeller. Unfortunately, the first time in 1912, he failed to push through the cherished document called the Aldrich Plan. Subsequently, reformers removed the name of Republican Aldrich, which irritated Democrats, from the title, made a number of minor changes to the document, and relaunched it as a Democratic initiative. Thus, after sophisticated manipulations by the banking circle in 1913, the Federal Reserve Act was successfully ratified. Interestingly, the vote in the upper house of Congress took place on December 23, and on the eve of Christmas there were very few senators in the meeting room.

This is how the “Fed Hydra” was born, which performs the functions of the Central Bank with a small reservation. The Fed's form of capital is private - joint stock. The structure of this corporation consists of 12 Federal Reserve Banks and numerous private banks. The latter are shareholders of the Federal Reserve and receive a fixed 6% per annum in the form of dividends on their membership fees, regardless of the Federal Reserve's income. Currently, about 38% of all banks and credit unions in the United States (approximately 5.6 thousand legal entities) are involved in this structure. Fed shares do not confer control rights and cannot be sold or pledged. Moreover, their acquisition is the official obligation of each member bank to invest in them an amount equal to 3% of their capital. The main benefit of being a member bank is borrowing from the Fed's reserve banks.

No one knows what structures the US Federal Reserve actually owns. Only the close friendly and family ties of all the heads of the Fed with the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, as well as the history of the creation of the Federal Reserve, point to them as the true owners. However, in the 70s of the last century, some information leaked to the press through investigative journalist Rob Kirby, who published a list of organizations that own the Federal Reserve System. However, all these banks have long disappeared through mergers or acquisitions with others. All except one - Bank of England (Bank of London).

Rothschild Bank of London
Warburg Bank of Hamburg
Rothschild Bank of Berlin
Lehman Brothers of New York
Lazard Brothers of Paris
Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York
Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy
Goldman Sachs of New York
Warburg Bank of Amsterdam
Chase Manhattan Bank of New York

Chipping all earthlings

So, on the one hand, America's wealthy families have existed and prospered for centuries, with another - through the Fed they exert influence both on the United States itself and on other countries, because the dollar remains the main reserve currency.

In addition, if necessary, the US government can always borrow from the Federal Reserve, for example, $5 trillion for a small, victorious war in the Middle East, if the interests of the parties coincide. Since Bush came to power, this measure has been used so often that today the national debt stands at a record $1.5 trillion. At the same time, it is worth saying that the debts of US individuals and corporations amount to more than $10 trillion and the total amount of debt is approaching the US GDP of $13 trillion.

Russia on the eve of the 1998 default was in milder conditions. Therefore, one of the biggest problems of the current crisis is considered to be the threat of US default or hyperinflation of the dollar if the Fed starts printing paper with portraits of presidents at an accelerated pace.

“...Everyone, in general, understands that the reasons that led to the crisis in the fall of 2008 have not gone away and that the second blow of the financial and economic disaster is inevitable. At the same time, states and corporations have noticeably exhausted their available funds... There is only one scenario left - government default. Designed and controlled collapse of the dollar,” writes Sergei Pereslegin, head of the “Designing the Future” analytical group, in one of the publications.

How the detente will happen remains anyone's guess. The world has changed significantly over the past 20 years. Back in the mid-1980s, the Americans managed to force Japan to strengthen the yen against the dollar, which was beneficial for the United States, but led to depression in the Land of the Rising Sun. Today there is a China that is growing by leaps and bounds with its own ideas about good and evil, and if you look more broadly - the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) - the invention of the Goldman and Sachs family.

Some of the plans of the world's most powerful people came to light with the help of journalist and director Aaron Russo, who is known for revealing stories and films about the Fed. One of his most scandalous films is “America - from freedom to fascism.” In 2007, in an interview with journalist Alex Johnson, he made a number of confessions. Nick Rockefeller, being a friend of the director, tried to “recruit” him. He even invited Rousseau to join the odious elite organization - the Council on Foreign Relations, but he refused. Rousseau said that he once asked Rockefeller a question: “You have all the money in the world that you need. You have all the power in the world that you need. What is the meaning of all this, what is the ultimate goal? To this Rockefeller replied: “Our ultimate goal is to ensure that everyone is “chipped.” To control the whole society, so that the bankers and the elite control the world." Rockefeller even promised that if Russo joined them, his chip would have a special mark that would allow him to avoid too intrusive surveillance. In conclusion, it remains to add the following: the interview took place at the end of January 2007, and in the summer of the same year, Aaron Russo died of cancer.

Rockefellers: flour and pork

John David Rockefeller was born in 1839 in New York State. His father Bill was a drunkard and a charlatan. John did not follow in his parent’s footsteps, but at the age of 16, after a three-month accounting course, he left for Cleveland. There he looked for work for six months until he got a job as an assistant accountant in the small company Hewitt & Tuttle. At age 18, John co-founded the brokerage firm Clark & Rockefeller and made good money from the American Civil War of 1861–1865. Maurice Clark and John Rockefeller supplied the armies with flour, pork and salt. After the war, Rockefeller struck a gold mine - fuel, which was vital in conditions of rapid industrialization. In 1865, he sold his interest in Clark & Rockefeller for $72.5 thousand and began investing exclusively in oil. As a result, in 1870, the “grandmother” of ExxonMobil, Standard Oil, was born.

Rothschilds: antiques

The founder of the Rothschild clan, Amschel Moses Bauer, a native of Frankfurt, acquired his initial capital literally in a trash heap back in the middle of the 18th century. As legend has it, after the death of his father, a small merchant, Amschel began searching for antiques in landfills. Then the future financier gave them a marketable appearance and sold them to aristocratic collectors. In 1773, he founded an antique shop and changed his surname Bauer (translated into Russian as “peasant”) to Rothschild (the name of his father’s shop). The brilliant Amschel donated his entire collection of antiques to Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse-Genau, asking in return only the status of the official supplier of the royal court. Amschel then went into banking, helping the prince make speculative transactions.

The name of Rothschild's son Nathan is associated with the most famous example of insider trading. In 1818, the son of the enterprising Amschel sent his agent to the site of the Battle of Waterloo and was the first to learn about Wellington's victory and Napoleon's defeat. On the London Stock Exchange, he put on a whole performance, pretending that he had started selling. Everyone followed his example in panic, while Nathan's agents bought up depreciated shares of the British Treasury.

Lemans: cotton

The recently bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers had its origins in cotton. In the United States in the mid-19th century, this plant was of particular value, and immigrants from Bavaria - Heinrich, Emmanuel and Mayer Lehman - did not miss a beat when they opened the H. Lehman grocery store in the “cotton” state of Alabama in 1845. The brothers kindly allowed customers to pay for their products in cotton, which they then sold at a good markup.

Two years later, the company H. Lehman and Bro saw the light of day, and subsequently the name changed to Lehman Brothers. In 1870, Lehman Brothers became one of the main founders of the Cotton Exchange in New York. Subsequently, the Lehmans made transactions in the oil and coffee markets, and invested in bonds of railway companies.

Morgans: weapons

John Pierpont Morgan Sr. founded the famous Morgan banking house. He started out as a simple accountant at the New York company Duncan, Sherman and Company. He, like Rockefeller, got rich in the Civil War - however, he sold weapons, not food, to the northerners. In 1867, John Pierpont co-founded Drexel, Morgan and Company. Just then, after the end of the war, the United States experienced an economic boom. The Morgans invested in industrial enterprises and railroad construction. In 1893, the company was transformed into the banking house JPMorgan.

Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild

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Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild(English) Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild , genus. April 29, 1936) - representative of the Rothschild dynasty, baron, head of the London branch of the Rothschilds at present (since 1990). Great-great-great-grandson of Nathan Mayer Rothschild.

Born to Victor, 3rd Baron Rothschild, and his first wife Barbara Judith Hutchinson. Jacob has two sisters - Sarah and Miranda and two half-sisters - Victoria and Emma, a famous economist.

In 1961 he married Serena Mary Dunn, and the family had four children:

Hannah Mary (b. 1962), married Brookfield
Beth Matilda (b. 1964), married Tomassini
Emily Magda (b. 1967), married to Freeman-Atwood
Nathaniel Philip Victor James (Nat) (b. 1971)

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Excerpt characterizing Rothschild, Jacob

In practical matters, Pierre suddenly now felt that he had a center of gravity that he did not have before. Previously, every money question, especially requests for money, to which he, as a very rich man, was subjected very often, led him into hopeless unrest and bewilderment. “To give or not to give?” - he asked himself. “I have it, but he needs it. But someone else needs it even more. Who needs it more? Or maybe both are deceivers? And from all these assumptions he had previously not found any way out and gave to everyone while he had something to give. He had been in exactly the same bewilderment before with every question concerning his condition, when one said that it was necessary to do this, and the other - another.
Now, to his surprise, he found that in all these questions there were no more doubts and perplexities. A judge now appeared in him, according to some laws unknown to himself, deciding what was necessary and what should not be done.
He was just as indifferent to money matters as before; but now he undoubtedly knew what he should do and what he should not do. The first application of this new judge for him was the request of a captured French colonel, who came to him, talked a lot about his exploits and in the end almost declared a demand that Pierre give him four thousand francs to send to his wife and children. Pierre refused him without the slightest difficulty or tension, marveling later at how simple and easy it was that which had previously seemed insurmountably difficult. At the same time, immediately refusing the colonel, he decided that it was necessary to use cunning in order to force the Italian officer, when leaving Orel, to take the money that he apparently needed. New proof for Pierre of his established view of practical matters was his solution to the issue of his wife’s debts and the renewal or non-renewal of Moscow houses and dachas.

Who are the Rothschilds and Rockefellers? Are the Rothschilds and Rockefellers ruling the world?

Rockefeller family

John Davison Rockefeller- founder of the dynasty. Initially, John's business interests covered only the oil production sector, but later they expanded to manufacturing activities.

In the 70th year of the 19th century, brothers John and William Rockefeller founded the oil company Standard Oil. The huge demand for fuel and an aggressive business strategy allowed John to become a monopolist and earn billions of dollars, and his entrepreneurial talent and ruthless attitude towards competitors allowed him to increase his capital in new subsidiaries.

John Rockefeller conducted large-scale sponsorship activities. He founded a charitable foundation, and social institutions received assistance.

John Rockefeller Jr.- the son of a billionaire - was also involved in. Rockefeller Jr.'s entrepreneurial interests extended into the sphere. His main brainchild is called Rockefeller Center - the largest office building in New York. He was also interested in banking. He was a co-owner of Chase Bank.

The next generation of the family represents David Rockefeller. David received a prestigious education in economics, he is a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in economics. This representative of a successful family business promotes the principles of globalization and puzzles over the salvation of all humanity in the near future:

Distribution of food and water among the planet's population;

Regulating the number of people on the planet;

Problems of global warming.

David Rockefeller was born and raised in prosperity. His standard of living was predetermined. Higher economic education and a degree in economics, as well as the level of well-being - all this pushes a person to cultivate hypotheses about saving the world and global integration. Most likely, this is the correct pattern.

Today, the Rockefellers are controlling shareholders in the following companies:

ExxonMobil (a derivative of Standard Oil);

New York Life;

Rothschild family

Founder of the dynasty. In the 19th century, Mayer made every effort to begin the formation of his capital. Rothschild connected his activities with the usurious shop, which he inherited from his father.

Mayer Rothschild competently built his relationship with Prince Wilhelm. This allowed him to supply antiques for the royal house; later Mayer became the prince's financier.

The five Rothschild children - Solomon, James, Nathan, Karl and Amschel - grew up and settled in different European countries, but this did not prevent them from maintaining close relationships with each other. A high-quality business reputation was undoubtedly one of the factors in the family's success.

Of all the children of Mayer, Nathan and Amschel distinguished themselves in the formation of the Rothschild empire. Nathan's effective work is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.

The descendants of Nathan, Amschel, Solomon, James and Karl got an excellent financial basis; they could only work to strengthen the financial position of the empire and take it to new levels.

Now the head of the family Nathaniel Rothschild. The dynasty conducts its financial affairs in Europe and takes an active part in charity work there. It is not possible to unambiguously assess the Rothschilds' fortune. One thing is obvious - these are talented businessmen who have managed to preserve and increase their fortune and their own influence after several generations. And most likely, they are interested in continuing their business in a peaceful environment.

Family intersection points

The Rockefellers and Rothschilds have partnerships on several projects. From time to time they became co-owners of each other's enterprises, but these were only forms of money management, and not manifestations of competition. For people of such high status, the most prestigious form of interaction is partnership.

The myth of world domination

Undoubtedly, the greatness and power of the families and the Rothschilds can influence the global financial system - they are talented and successful businessmen, as proven by deeds and time. Many believe that these influential families are large or.

But still, on a planetary scale, this is just a handful of people who are unable to take control of the whole world, especially if we talk about the modern technological world. Therefore, the myth of world domination is most likely just a myth.