“Give me the control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes it’s laws.” – Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild

The name Rothschild is literally associated with wealth. For over 200 years, the Rothschild family have remained the most powerful and wealthy family in the world. Their wealth has been made primarily in the world of banking. However, they have massive investments in other industries such as real estate, oil and construction. This unique family began with their patriarch, Mayer Amschel Rothschild. He was a Jew living in Germany in the 18th century. He was a court Jew or personal banker of the German royals and governors of the Roman states in Hesse-Kassel. In the year 1760, he begun a banking business in the city of Frankfurt. Over time, he provided his services to the nobles and royals of Germany and accumulated a huge fortune.

The Rothschild family is, without a doubt, the richest family in the history of the world. It is strange to not see any of their names listed on Forbes each year in terms of the richest individuals, but as a family, they are still rich. The family has claimed that through assets they have a net worth estimated to be at about $350 billion. The reason for this being that spreading the bloodline away from incest has caused some deluding in the assets.
“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” – Gutle Schnaper Rothschild

The Rothschild family are known to have funded the losers and the winners of all wars since the Napoleonic Wars of 1803 to 1815.they fund both sides so that whichever side wins, they profit. In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte was campaigning to take over Britain itself. Seeing an opportunity, the Rothschild family got together and made a plan. Jacob Rothschild was stationed in Paris, France. He was told to fund Napoleon’s war effort to conquer Britain. On the other hand, Nathan Rothschild, stationed in London was told to fund General Wellington’s war effort against Napoleon. The two sons did that and the war raged. Soon, the family decided that it was more profitable to them if Britain won the war and the British royal family was indebted to the Rothschild family. Thus, Jacob limited the funds to Napoleon’s army and General Wellington began to win.
Nathan was involved in the British stock market. Shrewdly, he saw an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. Knowing that Britain was winning the war, he started selling off his British bonds in lump sums. Other traders on the floor saw his actions and concluded that France must be winning and Britain losing. They also dumped their British bonds in large sums. As a result, the price of the bond plummeted and became very low. This caused an economic crash in Britain. Once Nathan saw that the other traders had sold all their bonds, he began buying them back at ridiculously low prices. He was from the richest family in the world so he could easily buy them all. He actually managed to buy all the bonds that the Bank of England had issued that year. When the news reached the common citizens that Britain had won the war, the value of the British bond rose so high that Nathan made a profit of 20% on all his investment in the bonds. In addition to that, since the Rothschild family owned all the bonds in Britain, they effectively owned the British economy and the Bank of England. Ever since, the Rothschild family have used their money and power to design the economies of other countries in the world. They have also created economic crashes to make profit out of them, just like they did in Britain in 1815.
They Dictated The Price Of Gold

Some would argue that the price of gold is still to this day being decided by the Rothschild family. In 2004, Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Sons pulled out of the gold business, and any other precious metals, giving up their spot to Barclays. The Rothschild family having a say in the price of gold started back in 1919: when the five leading traders of the industry met twice a day to set the price.
This gave the Rothschild family and their colleagues a lot of power over the people that held onto gold as their most valuable asset, and a lot of people are still doing it today. For that long span between 1919 and 2004, the meetings were held each day at the N M Rothschild and Sons offices. There have been several allegations of corruption in the time that they were still fixing the price, and after it.

A lot can be said for the Rothschild family: they had an impossible amount of money and power across the world, and were influential in how some of the most important moments in the last two centuries played out.