Evelyn de Rothschild

[GRG55]

Re: Evelyn de Rothschild

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documen.../forbes6.shtml

We filmed one night when Jacob held a dinner to mark the 150th anniversary of Château Mouton Rothschild, the wine. You suddenly became aware of the spread of Rothschild power and influence. They've got the world's best wines, some of the world's best-known and most powerful banks, several of the world's richest people and they were all converging in one night on this unlikely house on a hill in Buckinghamshire. You were conscious of being in a wholly different world.
It was summed up for me when Jacob Rothschild rose to make his speech in front of this array of intelligent, acute faces. He said he'd recently received one of the rudest letters of his life from his cousin Philippine, in whose honour this dinner was being held. She was furious with him because he'd not come to one of the events that were marking the anniversary of the wine. She had also sent a letter to Evelyn who runs NM Rothschild, the family bank.
He said, "Evelyn's excuse was better than mine - he was selling the family bank to our French cousins and we must raise a glass to that. My excuse was that I was simply giving dinner to the Queen and President Putin. Philippine replied, 'Put them off! Put them off!'" In that one brief interchange you got a whiff of history: presidents, kings and queens may come and go but the Rothschilds are forever.

"Forever" is a long time. Once upon a time I would imagine that some thought de Medici were forever too...;)

[Sharky]

Re: Evelyn de Rothschild

"...it's financial instruments. If you do not regulate them, and you let everyone do what they want to do, then you are bound sometimes to get trouble which ensues; and that is what has happened."

Yet another call for increased regulation, when it is in fact heavy regulation and other government involvement in the economy that got us into this mess, not a lack of it.

Statists like Rothschild can't resist the temptation at times like these to step into the public eye and encourage things in their most-favored direction. I'll bet they end up getting their way, too -- much to all of our long-term detriment.