a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by alpha0
alpha0  ·  4593 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: For the very rich, citizenship is a problem to be solved.
The Rothschilds did it during the Napoleonic Wars. Always bugged me: why didn't these greedy heads of state just take over their gold and be done with it? It is nearly magical how they survive unmolested while the said heads would even march all the way to Moscow for glory and booty. And yet they begged for loans from their own nominal "subjects".

There is a missing history book that someone aught to write. Provisional title:

   The Modern Sovereign Model - The Outsourced State and 
   the Emergence of the International Finance 
   and Trade Private Powers

   Chapter 1: From East-India to Halliburton
   Chapter 2: The Glorious Revolution
   Chapter 3: A Brief Review of The Feudal Model
   Chapter 4: The Rothschilds, The Bank of England and IBS
...