Who are the richest people in the world? - Page 8

On November 10 2011 11:09 Interloper wrote:


Again with the epic source web-site... The site even has the word "rumor" in its adress.

On November 10 2011 10:56 sc2holar wrote:


Billionares are self made. but Trillionares are heirs to the great old families. I have no source but im pretty sure Rockefeller is up there with the Rothschild, along with the queen of Holland.

On November 10 2011 11:18 Tevo wrote:


The Queen of Holland? Please elaborate, I know the Dutch royal family has been in some shady business over the years, especially in the World Wars, but to class them right up there with the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds?

Also, I find this subject crazy interesting, but apart from the odd Zeitgeist vid or some funny animations I'm not really able to find too much freely accessible information on it. Could you state some of your sources? I wouldn't mind reading a good book on the subject or at least some info site. Thanks.

On November 10 2011 11:18 sc2holar wrote:



You can find similiar articles in official english newspapers. There is nothing to debate here, Lord Victor himself admitted to "Being a leftist, but never a soviet spy".

On November 10 2011 10:11 Happylime wrote:
which is why we must return to the gold standard and fast? Money isn't worth anything "because we say it is" Nothing works that way, that doesn't make sense. If I print money and say it has value it's still just paper, and has no value. Look at early U.S. for an example of this.

On November 10 2011 09:50 sc2holar wrote:

You know about dollar value fluctuation right? the multiplication comes from factoring in the value of the currency 1850 vs today.


6billion dollars in 1850 would be equal in buying value to around 300 trillions today. Depending on the interest, the family trust could easily hold 400-500 trillions today. It would of course be impossible to prove, but its a technical possibility,

On November 10 2011 11:17 TheDraken wrote:
who gives a shit if they have the modern equivalent of 400 trillion? obviously if forbes doesn't recognize it because it's non-taxable it all has to be stashed away and out of circulation, which makes it as good as worthless. i don't even believe that any one of them actually controls more than several billion, and even if they did have access to 400 trillion what would it be good for? over about 100 billion you reach a point where everything in life is basically free, and yet the majority of the rothschilds have lived rather miserable lives. good majority of them grew up in sheltered microcosms and wanted to live conventional lives, but were forced into a life of upright aristocracy and banking. read any one of the multitude of biographies on these individuals and chances are they spent time collecting some fancy cars, collected some exotic bugs, ran some obscure bank, met some big wig from some other company, got married, was unhappy, got divorced soon after, bought some estate and lived in relative isolation, was introduced to someone else while out in a vineyard, got married, had a child, got divorced again.
thrilling.

On November 10 2011 11:20 Ancestral wrote:


Comical. This is all conspiracy theory. Oooh, a family is very rich? Aliens, 9/11, etc.

On November 10 2011 10:32 kakaman wrote:
No one knows how much the Rothschild family's net worth is, but it probably dwarfs any other individual person's wealth. Remember, these guys financed both the British and the French during the Napoleonic Wars. That shows you the influence and wealth the Rothschilds bring.

On November 10 2011 11:37 sc2holar wrote:


You turn it into a conspiracy theory. Im just posting stuff from the history books. Yes, this family is very rich and very interesting, and that is all i want to tell people by creating this thread. I find it interesting, lots of others do, but if history is not your cup of tea, then fine. but dont derail the thread.

On November 10 2011 11:40 Timerly wrote:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Fugger

That guy was what struck me in the face once I learned about the whole Fugger family in school. He owned something like 80 million euro in today's gold value (multiplying his original capital by 10 over his life) and controlled Europe. I mean controlled. He made kings, got himself crowned, initiated and prevented wars, it's beyond belief. The english page unfortunately is rather lackluster but you can't just go by the nominal value here. Considering the average living expenses his fortune was beyond anything we have in the world today. It's all based on a long family history but wow did that guy get rich.You have to realise that he had more money than any country(!) at the time. Now Rothschild may be a huge monetary power today but it's all dwarfed if you qualify it. I'll spare you the political part of my post here^^ I just wanted to put this in perspective for fun. There are some really rich people in this world's history^^

On November 10 2011 11:49 searcher wrote:
Take all the wealth of all families and individuals claimed in this thread and multiply it by zero. You now have the amount of fact in this thread.