And yes tooli, you are so right in saying "The power of old families like Rothchilds is finished ..."
The Rothchilds are not seeking power, at least not visibly so. They are more interested in preserving their huge generational wealth.
The following is from the 1997 article:
Accounting for the Rothschild Wealth and Influence
Morton (1962) noted that the Rothschild wealth was estimated at over $6 billion US in 1850. Not a significant amount in today's dollars; however, consider the potential future value compounded over 147 years!
Taking $6 billion (and assuming no erosion of the wealth base) and compounding that figure at various returns on investment (a conservative range of 4% to 8%) would suggest the following net worth of the Rothschild family enterprise:
$1.9 trillion US (@ 4%) $7.8 trillion US (@ 5%) $31.5 trillion US (@ 6%) $125,189.1 trillion US (@ 7%) $491,409.0 trillion US (@ 8%)
To give these figures some perspective consider these benchmarks:
A little of $300 billion US buys every ounce of gold in every central bank in the world (see John Kutyn's estimate (http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest/kutyn111597.html). U.S. M3 money supply August 1997 was $5.2 trillion U.S. debt is currently $5.4 trillion. U.S. GDP (1997; 2nd Q.) is $8.03 trillion. George Soros' empire is worth an estimated $20 billion.
The above estimates were as of 1997.
How do you invisibly preserve, or hide that kind of wealth?
Remember up till 2004 the Rothchilds is one of the six members of the LBMA price setting committee.
