Common Sense
"The dramatic success of the five founding Rothschild brothers lay in their closely synchronised business. Having set up banking operations in Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna and Naples they bound themselves by contract to clear, defined objectives and set about creating the fastest and safest courier network in Europe by which they exchanged encoded market information on a daily basis. It proved to be a winning formula which soon positioned them as the best informed and most internationally effective banking group in the world.
Couriers, pigeon post, the telegraph, the telephone and e-mail: as each new medium of communication came along it was quickly embraced by the Rothschilds to maintain their advantage."
Seems like common sense, doesn't it? I guess I wouldn't know, there's not much common sense in my heritage...and god knows there could certainly be more in my life. Finding oneself dumped in Europe at middle age leads to lots of "research"...often involving powerful people, because that's what life's about usually. Take for example the castle ruins above, this is the Habichtsburg (hawk's castle) in Switzerland--ancestral home of the Habsburg Empire. I could link to things like the fact that the boys who got the Rothschild billions rolling left their mother in the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt while they surrounded themselves with luxury (she probably wanted it that way)...but then, I am compelled to spend (waste?) time on the cursory perusal of such things. You, not so much I would imagine. Anyway, it's all there if you're white and nerdy.
