How did the Rothchilds outsmart the Congress to take control of America’s banking and money system in 1913? Did the international bankers planned the economic crash 1929? How did they do this? Is the Illuminati behind all this? Why was Churchill just so ‘happened’ to be in America at the time, and why was he the guest of honour at a bizarre celebration attended by over 40 ‘bankers and master plungers’ of Wall Street in October 29, 1929?
was invited to meet with a group of businessmen, and bankers JP Morgan, Rockefeller, and Rothschild, in Wall Street.
⦁ In 1815 Nathan Rothschild spread lies that the British had been defeated, which caused a crash in the value of British Government bonds. While panicked English investors sold up their life savings, Nathan Rothschild bought-up their bonds for pennies on the dollar.
⦁ By 1818 they had fleeced the French investors, by crashing the French Government bond market. According to plan, the brothers formed the first International bank and named it M. Rothschild and Sons. The pope became their most famous customer. The Catholic
⦁ By 1823 the Rothschilds were guardians of the entire papal treasure and took over the financial operations of the Catholic Church. Enraged citizens accused the Rothschilds of trying to control the world’s money markets. Fearing for their lives, the Rothschilds retreated into the shadows and cast their eyes on the youthful USA. To avoid publicity, the Rothschilds made themselves invisible by creating and hiding behind two front companies. J P Morgan and Kuhn and Loeb.
⦁ When official news of the British victory at Waterloo arrived, the English bond-market skyrocketed and so did Nathan Rothschild’s wealth. In one foul swoop, the Demon Brothers had double-crossed the English masses and taken control of the Bank of England.
⦁ In 1842, the British stole Hong Kong from China in an Opium drug-deal called the treaty of Nanking. The Russell family who controlled the US arm of the Rothschild drug smuggling operation, set up the Skull and Bones fraternity at Yale University. America’s big money families formed the fraternity’s inner power circle. Taft, Russell, Schiff, Haremon, Bush, Warburg, Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Stemson, Weighouser, Vanderbilt, Goodyear and Pillsbury were all members. These families intermarried over the generations to form America’s big money aristocracy. Skull and bones member Alfonso Taft catapulted his son William Taft right into the top job at the White House. President Taft’s 17th. Amendment to the US Constitution guaranteed the right of big-money insiders to hand-pick Senators and buy control of the US Senate. Today, the most influential members of the CIA, the US Government, and big finance are Skull and Bones men. The Hollywood movie lots are owned by the Illuminati Lehman brothers, Rothschild agent Kuhn and Loeb and Goldman Sacks.
⦁ The next generation of Rothschilds were responsible for the creation of the US Federal Reserve Banks in 1913. Leopold and Nathaniel Rothschild were the next generation of the family to take charge of the family fortune. Their forte, like their forefathers, was banking. Since their predecessors had already conquered Europe and set their eyes on America, this new generation didn’t waste any time and set about continuing the family tradition. The US congress was in charge of issuing money in America. For the Rothschilds to take control of America’s banking and money system meant they had to outsmart Congress.
⦁ The bankers made forty billion dollars profit out of their transactions in World War Two.
⦁ The Rockefeller’s alone, who displayed great eagerness for the US to enter World War One on the British side, made in excess of $200,000,000 from that conflict, and in just one afternoon during the war.
⦁ Before the great collapse of 1929, research shows that elite bankers withdrew their money from the stock exchange. After the collapse, they used that money to buy cheap shares and smaller bankrupt banks.
Yet within a few years after issuing his stem warning to the public of the Illuminati, Churchill was an active member. Why? On ‘Black Monday’ 28 October, 1929, the day prior to the ‘crash’, Churchill who just so ‘happened’ to be in America at the time, was invited to meet with a group of businessmen, and bankers JP Morgan, Rockefeller, and Rothschild, in Wall Street. On October 29, 1929, the evening of the ‘crash’, Churchill was guest of honour at a bizarre celebration attended by over 40 ‘bankers and master plungers’ of Wall Street, at the Fifth Avenue mansion of 33 Degree Freemason, Bernard Baruch.
“Vatican maintained large investments with the Rothschilds of Britain, France and America, the Hambros Bank, and Credit Suisse in London and Zurich. In the United States, it has hold-ings with the Morgan Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank, First National Bank of New York, the Bankers Trust Company, and others.”
In a book on Vatican treasures, The Vatican Billions, Avro Manhattan noted, “The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe. The pope, as the visible ruler of this immense amassment of wealth, is consequently the richest in-dividual of the twentieth century. No one can realistically assess how much he is worth in terms of billions of dollars.” According to the author, the Holy See maintained large investments with the Rothschilds of Britain, France and America, the Hambros Bank, and Credit Suisse in London and Zurich. In the United States, it has hold-ings with the Morgan Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank, First National Bank of New York, the Bankers Trust Company, and others.
The Great Crash signalled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries. Bohemian Grove attendee, Herbert Hoover took the blame, and 32 Degree Freemason Franklin D. Roosevelt became the 32nd President to in-debt the US to the Black Nobility families. And it all happened from one little street where Churchill was present.
Witnessing the power wielded by the Illuminati, Churchill had obviously changed his mind about warning humanity and thereafter served the New World Order admirably. For all Churchill’s achievements and ‘greatness’ as a wartime leader, the Free-masonic Druid priest has since been exposed as a Zionist puppet, who accepted £150,000 from the Rothschild’s bankers to bring Britain into WWII against Germany, and to latterly drag in the USA. Sir Anthony Eden divulged how Churchill would regularly run up large prostitutes bills which were paid in full by the Rothschild’s.
The City of London is an 800 year old corporation that controls finance and philosophy for an entity called the Crown. This entity is the creator and controller of the Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve; they control The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and associated cartels. The Crown identity is mostly kept secret. The Crown has never been the King or Queen of England since the establishment of this corporate body. The Crown is the directorate of the Corporation.
The next generation of Rothschilds were responsible for the creation of the US Federal Reserve Banks. Leopold and Nathaniel Rothschild were the next generation of the family to take charge of the family fortune. Their forte, like their forefathers, was banking.
Since their predecessors had already conquered Europe and set their eyes on America, this new generation didn’t waste any time and set about continuing the family tradition.
The US congress was in charge of issuing money in America. For the Rothschilds to take control of America’s banking and money system meant they had to outsmart Congress. They sent Jacob Schiff, their trusted life-long friend and neighbour from Frankfurt Germany to New York City and put him in charge of their front company called Kuhn and Loeb.
Then they ganged up with other big players, by investing in Rockefeller Oil, Harriman Railroads, Carnegie Steel and Brown Brothers investment banking. By 1901, the Rothschilds had amassed $22.2 billion worth of US assets.
The mayor of New York, John Highland, called them the invisible government. While Congressman Louis McFadden called them a dark crew of financial pirates who would slit a man’s throat to get a dollar.
When Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States in 1912, he sold-out America. Wilson was backed by Jacob Schiff and Paul Warburg, who worked in the United States as German immigrant agents for the Rothschilds.
In 1913, Paul Warburg re-wrote the US money rules with the help of Senator Aldridge. They called the new rules the Federal Reserve Act. With President Woodrow Wilson’s blessing, the privately owned central bank called the US Federal Reserve Bank, was created, and was free of government control.
Like pirates they divvied-up the private stock in America’s money supply and made Rothschild agent Paul Warburg head of the US Federal Reserve. To collect the interest on the money they lent to the American government and American people to use, they created the US federal Income act, to directly tax the people. With the stroke of President Wilson’s treasonous pen, the international bankers became the FED in 1913 and have owned a virtual monopoly of the US economy and the tax-payer’s money ever since.
They create money out of nothing, control treasury loans, and profit from interest rates. Since their biggest windfalls come from loan profits and weapons sales, wars and death are not only profitable, they are desirable and necessary.
The roaring twenties was a decade of peace and prosperity in the United States. Higher-purchase instalment plans were created to make buying high-priced items more affordable.
Instead of shelling-out $100 for a new washing machine, consumers would put S5 down and pay S8 a month.
The dangers of debt and high Interest rates didn’t enter the minds of most Americans, and shopping raged throughout the decade. Advertising became part of the fabric of American culture as ads dominated newspapers and magazines. Sex appeal, social snobbery, outrageous claims and fabricated scientific studies convinced consumers to buy more.
With massive corporate growth, high employment and a post-war bull-market on Wall Street, first time American investors went on a stock-market buying spree.
Everyone wanted a piece of this prosperity. People bought stock on margin or credit for as little as 10% down.
They then used the stock as collateral to borrow more money to buy more stock. Then they did it again. The market was a free-for-all.
Although everything looked rosy, it was a castle made of sand and the party ended on October 29th.
1929 when the stock market crashed and caught everyone off guard. Everyone except the insiders that Is.
In April of 1929, Paul Warburg, the father of the Fed, sent out a secret advisory warning his friends that a collapse and nationwide depression was certain, then in August of 1929 the Fed began to tighten money.
It is not a coincidence that the biographies of all the Wall Street giants of that era, John D. Rockefeller, IP. Morgan, Bernard Bench etc. all marvelled that they got out of the stock market Just before the crash and put all their assets in cash or gold.
On October 24th, 1929, the big NY bankers called in their 24-hour broker call loans. This meant that both stockbrokers and customers had to dump their stocks on the market to cover their loans, no matter what price they had to sell them for.
As a result, the market tumbled and that day was known as “Black Thursday”.
Curtis DaII, a broker for Lehman brothers, was on the floor of the NY stock exchange the day of the crash. In his 1970 book, “FDR: my exploited father in law”, he explained that the crash was triggered by the planned sudden shortage of call money in the NY money market. Within a few weeks, S3 billion of wealth simply seemed to vanish. Within a year, $40 billion had been lost.
But did it really disappear? Or was it simply consolidated in fewer hands? And what did the Fed do? Instead of moving to help the economy out, by quickly lowering interest rates to stimulate the economy, the Fed continued to brutally contract the money supply further, deepening the depression.
Between 1929 and 1933, the Fed reduced the money supply by an additional 33%. Although most Americans have never heard that the Fed was the cause of the depression, this is well known among top economists.
Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize winning economist at Stanford University, said the same thing in a national public radio interview in January of 1996: “The Federal Reserve definitely caused the Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency In circulation by one third from 1929 to 1933”
But the money lost by most Americans during the depression, didn’t just vanish. It was just re-distributed into the hands of those who had gotten out just before the crash and had purchased gold, which is always a safe place to put your money just before a depression.
By 1823 the Rothschilds were guardians of the entire papal treasure and took over the financial operations of the Catholic Church. Rothchilds controls both Vatican City and City of London (Bank of England).
Following the crash the great depression put 1/3 of the US workforce out of work. The banks foreclosed on property and took possession of peoples’ homes and farms. When panicked citizens lined-up at banks to withdraw their hard earned savings, the banks gave them only 10 cents on the dollar. Homeless and desperate, many Americans set up tent cities and roamed the rails looking for work.
Congressman Louis McFadden, chairman of the House Banking Committee, claimed the crash was planned by the international bankers who sought to become rulers of us all. In his famous 1932 Congressional address he said “Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks. The Federal Reserve Board has cheated the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt 3 times over. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the United States through the defects of the law in which it operates and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it. Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are government institutions. They are not government institutions; they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves.”
Following a series of death threats, McFadden died from food poisoning followed by a heart-attack, under suspicious circumstances
Wars throughout history have always been waged by the Ruling Class for conquest, power and profit, and the Subject Class have always fought their battles.
⦁ The League of Nations was established after WW I as the Money Cartel’s first attempt at world control
⦁ Today it is UN (United Nation)
⦁ Next is a One World Government created by unelected people who runs todays Deep State or Shadow Government. The Deep State is ruled by the Trinity of City of London, Vatican City, and Wahington D.D. The Rothchilds controls them all (even Pentagon).
Vatican City was established in its current form as a sovereign nation with the signing of the Lateran Pacts in 11 februari 1929. Before the great collapse of 1929, research shows that elite bankers withdrew their money from the stock exchange. After the collapse, they used that money to buy cheap shares and smaller bankrupt banks. Families that have consolidated their wealth in this way include Rotschild, Rockefeller and Morgan. A similar scenario was staged in the financial collapse of 2008, with the same bankers as beneficiaries.
In a book on Vatican treasures, The Vatican Billions, Avro Manhattan noted, “The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe. The pope, as the visible ruler of this immense amassment of wealth, is consequently the richest in-dividual of the twentieth century. No one can realistically assess how much he is worth in terms of billions of dollars.” According to the author, the Holy See maintained large investments with the Rothschilds of Britain, France and America, the Hambros Bank, and Credit Suisse in London and Zurich. In the United States, it has hold-ings with the Morgan Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank, First National Bank of New York, the Bankers Trust Company, and others. Among its investments are billions of shares in the most powerful international cor-porations. such as Gulf Oil, Shell, General Motors, General Electric, IBM, and others.
There was a huge financial reason for getting involved in WWI this time, American banks had made loans and would either get rich or go bust depending on the winner. This is an exceprt from “Profiting from World War One : the Fortunes of the Bankers Who Got Rich”
American business was soon booming from the war in Europe. Between 1914 and 1917, the American GNP was up 20% and manufacturing was up 40%. Allied Powers purchased over 3 billion dollars in wartime orders and borrowed over 2 billion dollars in bonds, compared to twenty million in Central power bonds.
The British surface naval blockade of Germany ensured that American trade was almost exclusively with the Allies. As early as 1915, the United States, not yet involved in the War, had loaned France and Great Britain millions of dollars through American banks. Had Germany won, those bonds held by American bankers would have been worthless.
By the spring of 1917, American bankers had loaned the Allies almost $3 billion dollars plus another $6 billion for exports, and the steel, munitions, chemical and agricultural industries had all become dependent on the war for profit. Lastly, some of the democrats (and Woodrow Wilson’s biggest financial backers) had vested personal financial interests with Britain and France.
How did this happen? The financial aspect of the conflict which became known as World War One is too vast to relate here with the respect the subject deserves, but let it suffice to point out that World War One elevated approximately 21,000 US investors into the brackets of millionaires and billionaires.
The Rockefeller’s alone, who displayed great eagerness for the US to enter World War One on the British side, made in excess of $200,000,000 from that conflict, and in just one afternoon during the war, Bernard Baruch, Wilson’s Czar of American Industry and part of the commission that handled all purchasing for the Allies during the war, made a personal profit of $750,000.
In 1910, a group of international bankers secretly met on a small island off the coast of Georgia. Their plan: to formulate a program to destroy the financial structure of America. To do that, they pushed Woodrow Wilson into the presidency; and in 1913, Wilson signed into law, the Federal Reserve Act and the Federal Income Tax. In 1921, these international bankers established the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
The U.S. Government took advantage of the CFR’s experience in finance and foreign affairs, and one of their study groups, the Advisory Committee on Post-War Foreign Policy, became part of the State Department in 1941. The secret goal of this study group was to condition the Congress, and the people of this country to accept the establishment of the United Nations (UN). The UN, initiated in 1945, does not seek to promote world peace and cooperation— it was the first step towards a one-world government, which is now referred to as the New World Order.
The CFR is a subsidiary of the Round Table Organization, a group of British Elitists controlled by the most powerful family in the world— the Rothschilds, who, through an organization known as the Illuminati, have been controlling world events since 1776. The Illuminati controls world leaders and the money that runs their countries. They can elect a President, and they can kill a President. They can shut-off the oil, and plunge the world into war. Even though they operate under the strictest secrecy, their goals have been known for over 2,000 years.
It took years to discover what happened that quiet week-end. A secret meeting was held on Jekyl Island, Georgia. This hide-away was owned by J.P. Morgan, and a small group of his financial affiliates. The business discussed at the meeting referred to was “Ways and means to ensure that proposed legislation to curb financial racketeering and monetary manipulation in the U.S.A. be sabotaged and legislation favourable to those attending the secret meeting be substituted.” To achieve these two important objectives was no easy task.
Mr. Paul Warburg was asked to suggest solutions. His advice was accepted. Subsequent meetings were held by the same group to iron out details in New York. The conspirators named their group the First Name Club because, when meeting together, they always addressed each other by their first names to guard against strangers becoming interested should they hear the surnames of national and international financiers being spoken.
To make a long story short, Aldrich, Warburg and Company, drew up the monetary legislation which Aldrich ultimately presented as the work of his special committee. He had it passed by Congress in 1913 under the title “The Federal Reserve Act of 1913”. The vast majority of American citizens honestly believed that this act protected their interests, and placed the Federa Government in control of the nation’s economy.
Nothing is further from the truth. The Federal Reserve System placed the affiliated bankers in America and Europe in position to bring about and control World War One.
This statement Wit be proved. World War One was fought to enable the International Conspirators to bring about the Russian Revolution in 1917. These facts illustrate how history does repeat itself and why. By means of similar plots, and intrigue, the International Bankers had brought about the English Revolution in 1640-1649; am the Great French Revolution of 1789.4] In 1914 the Federal Reserve System consisted of twelve banks which had bought $134,000,000 worth of Federal Reserve Stock. According to Congressional Record of May 29th, 1939; 8896 they had made a profit of $23,141,456,197. In 1940 the assets of the Federal Reserve were shown as five billion dollars. In 1946 they were declared to be forty five billion dollars.
The bankers made forty billion dollars profit out of their transactions in World War Two.
The majority of citizens in the United States believe that the Federal Reserve System benefits the people of the Nation as a whole. They think the Federal Reserve System protects the depositors’ money by making bank failures an impossibility. They think that profits made by the Federal Reserve Banks benefit the National Treasury.
They are wrong on all suppositions. What the majority of the people think is exactly what the Federal Reserve System was original!’ intended to accomplish, but the legislation drawn up on Jekyl Island, Georgia in 1910 and passed by the American Congress in 1913, did not benefit the people or the government of the U.SA.
It benefited only the American Bankers, who were interlocked with the International Bankers of Europe. The President of the United States nominates four of the men who are charged with the responsibility of operating the Federal Reserve System. They are paid $15,000 a year for their services. Congressional records will prove that the member banks shared illegally the profits made right from its inception.
It wasn’t until 1922 that the original Act was amended so the bankers could take the profits legally. Regarding the delusion that the Federal Reserve System protects people who deposit their money for safe-keeping in American Banks against possible bank failures, statistics show that since the Federal Reserve System came into operation in 1913 over 14,000 banks have failed. Millions upon millions of the depositors’ hard earned money were lost to the rightful owners.
As money or wealth, generally speaking, is indestructible somebody got what the others lost. That is what we term “Smart Business” to-day.
Washington D.C., the City of London and Vatican City being the three City States of the world, which all operate outside of the laws of the countries in which they reside.
⦁ They control the world through Military Power (D.C.),
⦁ Financial Control (London) and
⦁ Spiritual Control (Vatican City).
The Vatican Obelisk presents the spiritual authority of the pirates in this godless world, the second Obelisk, located in London, symbolizes the financial authority, and one in Washington personifies the military power. The grounds are the following: Vatican organizes religious power, London – financial, Washington – military power for the empire pirates. All revolutionsin the world, crucial events, discoveries, and also absence of discoveries were performed under the consent of empire pirates.
This chart identified the British Royal Control structure of the world. It spoke about the origins of the British Monarchy, and briefly covered their global control structure. This structure basically puts the British Royal Family at the top of the food chain of the world, second only to something symbolized with an eye. The chart showed them having various means of control over the so-called debt slaves (You and I).
The structure of this control system is global, and runs deep in the form of a multi-layer pyramid. This is the hierarchy of the Illuminati, or as some may call them, the New World Order. Their agenda is to establish a One World Government, One World Monetary System through monetary hyperinfla-tion, economic implosion, resource consolidation, eradica-tion of civil liberties and privacy, socialism and totalitarianism, national disarmament, unifying economies and centralizing control for their own benefit. The hierarchy is as follows:
• The Crown: The governing body of the City of London (Corporation), a committee of 12 banks headed by the House of Rothschild. This committee is the mas-termind pulling the strings in the world economy.
• British Monarchy: The Britain Royal Family (House of Windsor). This is the ceremonial crown of Great Britain. This is the one royal family the entire world knows and is considered at the top of the food chain.
• Crown Council of 13: These are the World’s Richest, Most Powerful Families, or what some would re-fer to as the 13 Illuminati Bloodlines (Illuminati), or the enlightened ones. This crown council, or cartel, is comprised of The Astor, The Bundy, The Collins, The DuPont, The Freeman, The Kennedy, The Li, The Onassis, The Reynolds, The Rockefeller, The Rothschild, The Russell and the Van Duyn families. (Do your own research).
• Committee of 300: World’s Richest, Most Powerful Sub-families.
• Powerful Sub-families (Think Tanks): This includes The Trilateral Commission, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Club of Rome, Council on Foreign Relations, United Nations and The Builderburg Group; col-lectively known as The Round Table. These are the groups who determine the direction of world governments and political events.
• World Financial Control: The International Monetary fund, World Bank, Central Banks and the Bank of International Settlements. These are the controlling groups of world financial and monetary direction. They use Tax Revenue and Interest Revenue to enslave nations and their people.
• World Resource Control: Corporations. These are the entities that gain control over resources and gain wealth through exploitation of human needs, wants and desires.
• World Population Control: This is the mechanism by which the population is kept under strict control. This is achieved through Religions – Teaches heavenly re-ward for obeying rules, Governments – Secret Service, Military, Police, Courts and Prisons, Education -Programming the intellectual with status quo academia, and Media — Controls the Elite’s message to the masses.
• Population Resources = Labor Units: These are the Debts Slaves, or economic slaves who go through the cycle of Birth, School, Labor, Taxes, Debt and Retirement. This is where the 99% are in on the pyramid.
This is the actual Pyramid Structure of the World. Think about it, where do you fall?
Simply by knowing this design, and the intended effects of it, you know the forces that are working against you. What this means is that The Crown, the Royal Family of Britain, The Committee of 300, those Think Tank Sub-Families, World Financial Institutions, Big Corporations, Religion, Government, Education and The Mainstream Media are all control mechanism forces working against you in a design to keep you an indebted, dependent and subservient subject existing as a resource whose only purpose is to serve the hier-archy of the design.
Note Some of these groups have some of the same owners and top ranking members operating within them.
Just like with gravity holding you down to Earth, all of these forces are holding you down. It’s hard to rise above the oppressive, inequality being implemented. Their purpose is to consolidate all resources, establishing a one-world government and global monetary union. But, knowledge is the first key to being able to send a sharp, poisonous spear right up the ass, and through the heart of the so called Monarchy, the richest families, the sub families and all the controlling forces of this pyramid that stand between you and your complete freedom.
The way they destroy your freedom is to destroy pur-chasing power via inflation, create economic slaves through debt and interest, and destroy civil liberties through socialism.
The forces of nature are all around us. But, the forces that wish to control our lives and prosperity are also all around us, watching and manipulating. We must make a conscious effort to understand factors that affect our economy, our debt based monetary system, our corrupt financial system and our conflicted, revolving door government.
By understanding the dynamics of these forces and the systems that control various aspects of our lives, we can then use them to our advantage, and beat them; or we can simply dismantle them and create a new, fairer system.
The Catholic Church is the strongest financial power and the largest property owner in history. It’s had possession of more property than any bank, trust or corporation on Earth has ever had. And they doesn´t need pay any taxes. Its more likely the Vatican is a Corparation. “The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe. The pope, as the visible ruler of this immense amassment of wealth, is consequently the richest individual of the twentieth century. No one can realistically assess how much he is worth in terms of billions of dollars.”
The Catholic Church is the strongest financial power and the largest property owner in history. It’s had possession of more property than any bank, trust or corporation on Earth has ever had. And they doesn´t need pay any taxes. Its more likely the Vatican is a Corparation. “The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe. The pope, as the visible ruler of this immense amassment of wealth, is consequently the richest individual of the twentieth century. No one can realistically assess how much he is worth in terms of billions of dollars.”