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How the Rothschild Family Built a Banking Empire Across Europe
Mayer Amschel Rothschild started a coin trading business in Frankfurt's Jewish ghetto in the 1760s. By 1815, his five sons had established banks in Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, and Naples, financing governments during the Napoleonic Wars. This episode traces how the Rothschilds used a combination of family loyalty, strategic marriages, a private courier network, and a famously strict partnership agreement to maintain control across generations. Key numbers: the Rothschilds' total wealth in the 1820s was estimated at over two million pounds (roughly two hundred million today)…
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