Reply #148: And always circling above... [View All]

And like vultures, they are always circling above. Waiting. Although when they get real hungry, the Rothschilds aren't above causing a little "murder and mayhem" on exchange floors so they can feed. They invented the art of market manipulation. And those lovely things called options. Now known as hedges. As in hedge funds. Betting a stock will go up. Or down. Sometimes making sure it goes up or down. Sometimes when one of them is about to die. If the stock is down, the taxes are less. And later, after the taxes are paid, the stock goes back up. After they have bought the stock back, of course.

They are the model for capitalism, the foundation of which is venture capitalism. Which is, in the end, vulture capitalism as you put it. But it is not the Rothschilds behind the Enrons. Or the Ken Lays. The Rothschilds do not believe in losing money. Anyone's money. Particularly their own. They do not know the word greed. Only the word money.

It is interesting to note that they also are quite philanthropic and some say they are also the model for noblesse obliege. The obligation. They do give back. Quite a bit of the art in our museums was theirs. Often bought for a museum instead of themselves.

And supposedly they have been the main benefactor of Israel from the beginning which of course puts them at odds with quite a few. Much of the anti-Semitism in the political arenas is really anti-Rothschild.

Few would admit it but they have become the "checks and balances" for the world economy. But better them than the Bushes.

And in that sense, the term vulture capitalism doesn't really apply to the Rothschilds. They are more like mother hens. Sitting on their eggs keeping them warm and safe until they hatch and "venture" out into the world. Royal Dutch Shell was one of their many eggs. De Beers another.

Although they avoid political arenas, remembering the basic premise of their patriarch, I suspect their heads are Republican but their hearts are Democratic. Their heart, at least, is in the right place.