The Rothschild family has been over 200 years building their wealth. They have cash reserves of about $60b. This is aside another $100b set aside for investments in the global stock market. The family owns more than 70% of the wines sold in Europe and their yearly income is in the range of $350 billion dollars.
The Rothschild are equity investors in 25 major global banks that has Bank of America, UBS, Credit Suisse and JP Morgan on the roll. They are into Amazon, Meta, Apple, Berkshire Hathaway, Bloomberg, Visa , Qualcomm, name it.
Their 1,800 mansions and chetau around the world are valued at around $36 billion.
They control the world as much as a family can quietly control the world, but you don't hear about them. There is something about real wealth that is super quiet. They only act.