Posted on 03/20/2017 11:42:14 AM PDT by drewh
David Rockefeller, the banker and philanthropist with the fabled family name who controlled Chase Manhattan bank for more than a decade and wielded influence around the world even longer as he spread the gospel of American capitalism, died on Monday morning at his home in Pocantico Hills, N.Y. He was 101.
Mr. Rockefeller could well be the last of an increasingly less visible family to have cut so imposing a figure on the world stage. As an advocate of the economic interests of the United States and of his own bank, he was a force in global financial affairs and in his country’s foreign policy. He was received in foreign capitals with the honors accorded a chief of state.
He was the last surviving grandson of John D. Rockefeller, the tycoon who founded the Standard Oil Company in the 19th century and built a fortune that made him America’s first billionaire and his family one of the richest and most powerful in the nation’s history.
As an heir to that legacy, Mr. Rockefeller lived all his life in baronial splendor and privilege, whether in Manhattan or at his country estate.
Imbued with the understated manners of the East Coast elite, he loomed large in the upper reaches of a New York social world of glittering black-tie galas. His philanthropy was monumental, and so was his art collection, a museumlike repository of some 15,000 pieces, many of them masterpieces, some lining the walls of his offices 56 floors above the streets at Rockefeller Center, to which he repaired, robust and active, well into his 90s. Photo
In silent testimony to his power and reach was his Rolodex, a catalog of some 150,000 names of people he had met as a banker-statesman. It required a room of its own beside his office.
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Presidents come and go, but the Rockefellers remain.
Well, for a while, anyway.
Kissinger and Soros?
ironic how the published World’s Wealthiest scale never includes the old money oligarchs of England and Europe. Obviously I can’t substantiate this but I read a report by a World’s Wealthiest analyst that claims the Rothschild clan is worth $500 Trillion.
Viewed from an eternal perspective, the playing field is level.
It is given unto man to live once & afterward, to face the judgement....
If only the rest of his scum brood and the soros scumily would follow him.
And just as broke as me!
William Penn gave away much land in Pennsylvania in the early 20th century. My ancestors had a couple of hundred acres, and according to my grandfather, John Rockefeller refused to run his trains through the region so these new land owners couldn’t sell the rich coal deposits on the land. They couldn’t pay the taxes on the land so they had to sell it...to John Rockefeller.
That would be a nice start.
From Forbes’ Billionaires List for 2017:
It was a record year for the richest people on earth, as the number of billionaires jumped 13% to 2,043 from 1,810 last year, the first time ever that Forbes has pinned down more than 2,000 ten-figure-fortunes. Their total net worth rose by 18% to $7.67 trillion, also a record. The change in the number of billionaires — up 233 since the 2016 list — was the biggest in the 31 years that Forbes has been tracking billionaires globally. Gainers since last year’s list outnumbered losers by more than three to one.
Bill Gates is the number one richest for the fourth year in a row, and the richest person in the world for 18 out of the past 23 years. He has a fortune of $86 billion, up from $75 billion last year. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos had the best year of any person on the planet, adding $27.6 billion to his fortune; now worth $72.8 billion, he moved into the top three in the world for the first time, up from number five a year ago.
Warren Buffett had the second-best year, and the biggest gain since Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016. His $14.8 billion jump in 12 months was enough for him to grab back the number two spot from Amancio Ortega, founder of Spanish clothing chain Zara. Ortega’s fortune was up $4.3 billion since last year, but he still fell to fourth in the world, unable to keep up with the outsize gains of others.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg moved up to number five for the first time, after his fortune rose $11.4 billion in 12 months. Meanwhile Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico, once the world’s richest man, fell to number six, the first time he’s been out of the top five in a dozen years.
There were 195 newcomers. Mainland China had the most new ten-figure fortunes with 76. The U.S. was second with 25. Notable newbies include Patagonia sportswear founder Yvon Chouinard; Viking Cruises founder Torstein Hagen of Norway; U.S. hedge fund tycoon Cliff Asness and two of his partners; and John and Patrick Collison, Irish citizens who cofounded San Francisco-based Stripe, which enables online payments. John Collison, age 26, is now the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, just two months younger than Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel. The Collisons are two of just four self-made billionaires in their 20s (the other two are the Snapchat cofounders). There are 56 billionaires under age 40, down from 66 last year, after some aged out and others dropped below the $1 billion mark.
Thanks for your post. Yep, not a mention of a Windsor, Dupont, Ashton, Rockefeller, Rothschild nor the hand full of other mega wealthy Europeans and Arabs. Talk about control! Yea old golden rule.
David Rockefeller made the list at number 605 with $3.3 billion. There are Saudis and folks from the United Arab Emirates on the list. Many of the old money people that you are talking about are worth hundreds of millions individually but not the one thousand million it takes to be a billionaire.
Here’s a link to the complete list:
https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/14/#version:realtime
I gave up at about number 625 and I was still in the $3 billion range!
For example, Queen Elizabeth’s net worth is estimated at $550 million.
Thanks again
That would be a good trick. That’s more than the assets of the entire US.
Most sites list them at $400 billion.
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