Roschild came and destroyed the predominance of land by raising the system of state bonds to sup power. He thereby created a new aristocracy, but this resting as it does on the most unreliable of elements can never play as enduringly regressive a role," he writes. "In the twinkling of an eye, it will dissolve and evaporate"
How did the Rothschilds go from a poor family inhabiting a part-share of a home in a Jewish ghetto to the richest family of all time in less than 50 years? Listen to how they reach their zenith, and what has happened to the family since then.
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