{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6a7ddd93049c692a6bedfcfd/6aca58ab8f34078889141f82?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":" House of Rothschild: Financing Two Centuries of Empires ","description":"<p>Tonight on Old Money After Dark, step into the shadowed counting rooms, grand country palaces, and quiet gravel terraces of the House of Rothschild. </p><p><br></p><p>Long before modern electronic exchanges linked global finance, sovereign credit was forged across wet cobblestones, through secret courier networks, and inside pigskin ledgers hidden deep within subterranean vaults. From twenty-four-year-old Mayer Amschel Rothschild testing debased trade coins with nitric acid on black Silesian slate in the narrow trench of the Frankfurt Judengasse, to the five brothers dispersing across the capitals of Europe bound by the Scythian covenant of the five arrows; from Nathan Mayer Rothschild secretly smuggling millions in East India Company gold through Napoleonic France to sustain Wellington’s starving army in Spain, to John Roworth racing stormy Channel gales with the true news of Waterloo; and from the candlelit auctions of Paris securing Château Lafite and the iron-framed glass conservatories of Ferrières and Waddesdon Manor, to Lionel de Rothschild funding the Suez Canal with four million pounds on twenty-four hours&#39; notice and French cellar masters walling up legendary vintages behind cobwebs during the dark winter of wartime occupation. Settle in for a slow, detailed historical chronicle of clicking brass scales, weathered bond folios, and enduring vineyards, designed to ease tension and guide you into deep rest. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Tonight&#39;s Bedtime Chapters:</strong></p><ul><li>The Red Shield &amp; Touchstone: Silesian slate assays, nitric acid drops, and debased coins in old Frankfurt. </li><li>The Kassel Vaults: Prince Wilhelm’s millions, double-entry books, and subterranean chests at Wilhelmshöhe. </li><li>Ciphers in the Cellar: Hidden pigskin folios, Yiddish codes, and evading Napoleon’s secret police. </li><li>The Five Arrows of 1810: A vellum contract, Scythian parables, and dispersing across five capital cities. </li><li>The Gold of Wellington: Fast sailing luggers, Channel smuggling, and funding the Peninsular War. </li><li>The Truth of Waterloo: Channel gales, Roworth’s early dispatch, and the fourteen-month consols trade. </li><li>The Terroir of Pauillac: Baron Nathaniel at Mouton, the candle auction for Lafite, and Gironde gravel knolls. </li><li>Palaces of Iron &amp; Glass: Paxton’s engineering marvel at Ferrières and French Renaissance boiseries at Waddesdon. </li><li>The Suez Midnight Advance: Disraeli’s crisis, four million pounds in private credit, and seven crates of shares. </li><li>Industrial Empires &amp; Rails: Rio Tinto copper dust, De Beers sorting vaults, and the Trans-Siberian line. </li><li>The Secret Cellars: Gestapo extortions at Hotel Metropole and legendary vintages walled up in Pauillac. </li><li>The Quiet Ledger: Ricardo Bofill’s chai, modern reunifications, and peaceful headstones along the Main. </li></ul>","author_name":"Old Money After Dark"}