# What is the net worth of the Rothschild family?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-net-worth-of-the-rothschild-family/499976
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [June 16, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-net-worth-of-the-rothschild-family/499976 "2009-06-16T19:26:07Z")
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-net-worth-of-the-rothschild-family/499976/44 "2012-05-24T13:57:38Z")
> [@socialgangster](#):
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> Okay now we get to the Rothschild family. How much is a castle worth? They own many of them. Think about it. Does Bill Gates live in a castle? Does Mark Zuckerberg? Nope because castles are quite pricey. They own parts of the federal reserve bank, and most banks on earth. Their position in these banks is original invested stock holders (unnamed.) When countries are in trouble, they borrow from the Rothschild and give away massive percentages. This family is in possession of beyond 50% of the worlds wealth. Have you ever played the game Risk or Monopoly? What happens?
> [@Kozmik](#):
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> > [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> > This is nonsense. Castles aren’t _that_ expensive. Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg don’t live in castles because there aren’t many in Seattle or Palo Alto. This user seems to have a fantasy that the Rothschild family is fabulously wealthy and that’s hardly the case. Their wealth has been exceeded by lots of people, even many people in India and China.
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> Nonsense. Castles, unlike Bill Gates’ [futuristic house](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates'_house), are the very foundation and paragon of wealth. That the wealth of the Rothschild family has been exceeded by lots of people, in China, India - point taken. However, look at [Kensington Palace Gardens](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Palace_Gardens). Most of the current occupants of the street are embassies. Leonard Blavatnik, a Russian businessman, has a residence there. So does Indian steel tycoon, Lakshmi Mittal. But look who the previous residents were - the Rothschild family. See also: [Château de Ferrières](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Ferri%C3%A8res).
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> And how’s Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook been doing lately?
I’m not sure if you’re serious, but note that I was replying to someone who claimed that the Rothschilds own more than half of the world’s wealth and that the fact that they owned castles proves something. Certainly they were wealthy, but I’m sure that the wealth has been diluted over the centuries and it’s certainly been exceeded by others.
And both Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg are doing fine. Even after the drop in the stock price he’s still worth more than $15 billion on paper.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-net-worth-of-the-rothschild-family/499976/45 "2012-05-24T14:16:27Z")
This thread is phenomenal. “Rothschild” is like “Candyman”, except if you say it five times in front of a mirror, a moron appears and starts jabbering about banking cabals.
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### Author:  [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-net-worth-of-the-rothschild-family/499976/46 "2012-06-02T13:15:52Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> This thread is phenomenal. “Rothschild” is like “Candyman”, except if you say it five times in front of a mirror, a moron appears and starts jabbering about banking cabals.
Meet [Mr. Candyman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sCioKnpHdY&feature=plcp). Just walking around downtown at night. :eek:
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### Author:  [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-net-worth-of-the-rothschild-family/499976/47 "2012-06-02T15:45:07Z")
Gosh, I wish I had Rothschild’s aplomb. And accent. And killer way to wear a tuxedo. All the while too responsibly dealing, no doubt for the millionth time, with a lunatic.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-net-worth-of-the-rothschild-family/499976/48 "2012-06-02T17:44:41Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> This thread is phenomenal. “Rothschild” is like “Candyman”, except if you say it five times in front of a mirror, a moron appears and starts jabbering about banking cabals.
[Moderator Note]
As a reminder, insults are not permitted in General Questions, no matter how outlandish someone’s opinions might be. If you want to express such opinions about another poster, take it to the Pit.
> [@poeticepistle\_pe](#):
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> And People, please look for the “information turncoats’” of our societies (the nay sayers), those people who’s job it is to dicredit plausible knowledge, with fabrications and misleading information, or with whimsical alligations of the “conspiracy theorist” syndrome (that is, throwing out the phrase loosely, to cause people to turn away from the one speaking the truth), all of this is smoke to cloud/shroud the truth.
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> Some people are just plain ignorant (for the ignorant that means without knowledge or wisdom or self-control) and make statements that confound the evident truth in small minds, and thereby further dividing us as a whole species, but you have others that are actually paid by these rich greedy accult devil worshipers to have you decieved in and on mass, and therby destroy us as a whole species.
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> Dont believe me, just check out our rescent catastrophies, and those senister plots behind them. You people had better start tuning away from living a selfish life, because, something devilish this way comes!
In the unlikely event that this poster returns, this is a reminder that General Questions is for factual information. If you want to continue along these lines, you’ll need to provide some factual support for your allegations.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-net-worth-of-the-rothschild-family/499976/49 "2012-06-02T23:45:39Z")
> [@Rasskle](#):
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> They own Reuters.
Wrong.
Reuters is owned by Thompson-Reuters (they have a very large building about 2-3 miles from my apartment)
T-R is slight majority owned by The Woodbridge Group of Canada, which is an investment tool of the Thompson family descendents of Roy Thompson, who made his money in media and North Sea Oil.
That family has nothing to do with the Rothschilds.
Probably should expect that bullshit claims are not going to go unchallenged on this board. I have a party to go to, or I’d do a little research on some of your other claims. I just figured I’d start with this one since the company is just down the road.
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### Author:  [@DStyles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DStyles)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-net-worth-of-the-rothschild-family/499976/50 "2012-06-08T21:08:46Z")
I just signed up in this forum to say, r.i.p. jay electronica
The illuminati don’t play son
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### Author:  [@brickbacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brickbacon)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-net-worth-of-the-rothschild-family/499976/51 "2012-06-08T21:28:03Z")
> [@DStyles](#):
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> I just signed up in this forum to say, r.i.p. jay electronica
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> The illuminati don’t play son
Jay [Electronica](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Electronica) isn’t dead afaict.
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