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There is a difference between having money and being rich and making sure that no one in your family will ever have to take public transportation or go to work (unless is one of those obscure and twisted fantasies that only a rich kid could have). Here are the 10 Richest and more powerful families in the world.

10. The Cox Family

(Estimated Net Worth: $41 billion dollars)

Back in 1898, James M. Cox bought "Dayton Evening News" which subsequently expanded to Cable TV, radio, and more, much more. Today, his grandchildren are taking over the family business, and the 41 billion fortune is divided among the 5 of them, Jim Kennedy (he is Cox Enterprises' current chairman), Blair Parry-Okeden, James Chambers, Katharine Rayner and Margaretta Taylor.

Besides the media business, the Cox family also takes on the automotive market challenge. Eleven years ago, the family made a $4 billion dollar acquisition of DealerTrack, a marker of software for car dealerships. The family also owns "AutoTrader.com", "Kelly Blue Book", and "Manheim Car Auctions".

9. The Bettencourt Family

(Estimated Family Net Worth: $47.5 billion dollars)

If you have never heard this name before, I bet that you have heard of L'Oreal. Back in 1907, Eugène Schueller started this legendary business, after he passed away, his daughter Liliane Henriette Charlotte Bettencourt took over, who was until she died in September 2017, the richest woman in the world. Now, her only daughter, Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers is the richest woman in the world with a net worth by herself of 47.1 billion dollars.

8. Cargill-MacMillan Family

(Estimated worth: $49 billion dollars)

The Cargill-MacMillan family has the most billionaire members compared to any other family in the world (there are 14 of them). Cargill, Inc is one of the largest private companies in America (if not the largest) and their products and services range from bio-industrial, energy, agricultural food, and beverage to pharmaceuticals, however, most of the 108 billion in revenues come from agribusinesses.

Back in 1865, William W. Cargill started his business empire, founding a small grain storage company, and made his own fortune as the railroad expanded westward at the end of the 19th century in the United States. As his son-in-law, John MacMillan took over the business in 1909, the wealthy family went commonly known as Cargill-MacMillan. The family has not run the company since 1995 when Whitney MacMillan stepped down. The family has agreed that 80% of the company's net income is to stay inside the business for reinvesting activities.

7. Slim Helu Family

(Estimated Net worth: $68.8 billion dollars)

Carlos Slim Helu is, of course, the richest man in Mexico, and is ranked 7 in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Carlos alone has a net worth of $65.3 billion dollars (as of April 2018).

He became a billionaire back in 1982 during the currency devaluation and economic crisis of Mexico by investing aggressively and buying companies at very low prices that would soon recover.

In 1990, Carlos had the opportunity to buy Telmex (monopoly telephone company owned by the Mexican government), paying close attention to Telmex's cellular service, offering the public pre-paid phones. The company's customer base exploded, growing at 66% every year, for 15 years.

Besides the telecom companies, Carlos also owns the biggest stake of the New York Times shares. He also bought majority stakes of other big companies in South America such as, "Grupo Carso", among other business in education, media, sports and entertainment, healthcare, manufacturing, real estate, airlines, mining hospitality, technology, retail, oil, and financial businesses.

6. The Mars Family

(Estimated Net Worth: $78 billion dollars)

Well, I guess is candy time! I am sure that all of you guys have eaten at least one of the Mars family candies, if Milky Way, Mars, Sneakers, and M&M ring the bells in your head, this means that you know what we are talking about, for this sweet sins are popular not only in the USA but also worldwide.

Franklin Clarence Mars started his candy selling company from a small kitchen back in the year 1911 and 18 years later his son, Forest Mars, joined in. That was the beginning of nougat flavor invention that formerly became the base of sneakers, one of the world's best selling nougat bar.

5. The Koch Family

(Estimated Net Worth: $82 billion dollars)

This family owns America's second-largest private company. They chose oil and gasoline as the market niches to concentrate their efforts in. It all started back in the year 1920 when Fred Chase Koch, an American Chemical Engineer developed a new method for the refinement of heavy crude oil into gasoline and it was groundbreaking. Today the Koch family runs several businesses, from food companies to transportation.

4. The Arnault Family

(Estimated Family Net Worth: $83.4 billion dollars)

Mister Arnault has built his massive luxury empire under the LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton umbrella. He just not own one luxury brand, he owns almost every luxury brand that you can think of, here is the list. (Spoiler. includes, Tag-Heuer, Dior, Hublot, Bvlgary...need I say more?). What I find surprising for these days billionaires is that he is not a school drop-out, he graduated with a bachelor degree in Arts and Science, and of course, luxury things can bring the best taste of art.

Mister Bernard has been in the luxury business since 1984 when he bought a company for $15 million dollars, including "Dior", now he is 69 years old and is still the Chairman and CEO of LVMH.

3. The Walton Family

(Estimated Net Worth: $130 billion dollars)

While most of the wealthiest families focus on diversification, running multiple industries at the time, the Walton family only focusses on one...Walmart, yeah, wow, they own the largest retailer in the United States. The retails business revenue reach up to $483 billion dollars in sales. Sam and James "Bud" Walton founded the retail business back in 1962, it grew bigger and bigger until what it is today.

After both of the Walton brothers passed away, Walmart was taken over by their children, Sam's 2 sons and 1 daughter and James'es 2 daughters. Today, the Waltons 3rd generation is in charge o the CEO position and make part of the board members, alongside with Kevin Systrom, co-founder of Instagram, and Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo.

Forbes crowned them the richest family in the United States.

2. The Al-Saud Family

(Estimated Net Worth: $1.4 Trillion dollars)

They are also known as the House of Al-Saud rules Saudi Arabia. The first notable Al-Saud member of the family was Mohammed bin Saud al Qasimi, the founder of first Arabia estate emirate of Syria. Now the family has thousands of members, together they form a wealthy family with an entire net worth that doesn't measure in billions, but trillions of dollars. The family members are also listed in Forbes billionaire list, but the highest rank is for Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal who is currently the 41st richest man in the world with an estimated net worth of $19.5 billion dollars. He does love the eccentricity that only money can buy, owning the most expensive private jet in the world. Let's take a look.

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1. The Rothschild Family

(Estimated Net Worth: $2 Trillion???)

Would you ever guess that they are Jewish? well, they are and it makes you wonder how the heck they survive Hitler? well, the answer is...Hitler is just a small time punk to this legendary family, and when you are a punk, you know who you can push around and from who you should stay away, and these people was just out of his league, in other words, he was better off taking his chances with the United States of America than with these people.

Some people say that the estimated net worth of the family is nearly $500 trillion, which is absurd at first, since the total wealth of the world is $250 trillion (the year 2016), but once you take a look at their history, you will notice the almost limitless power of this family that has played the low profile card for centuries, and start to realize that perhaps there is not enough money in the world yet to pay what many countries owe to this family. It makes you think that the entire world's wealth is one thing and the Rothschild fortune is from another world.

The family goes back to 1744, when Mayer Rothschild was born and raised in a Frankfurt Jewish ghetto in the German Duchy of Hesse. Back then, Jewish people were prohibited to live near Christians, so he was poor and hungry. He lived with 30 other family members and learned very young the secrets of a good trade from his father Amschel Moses Rothschild, who traded silk, coins, and commodities for a living.

Although his parents wanted him to study to be a Rabbi, that of course never happened, partly because he became an orphan at the age of 12 and mostly because of his financial killer instinct that does not go along very well with a religious way of living. So he was just a child and with his parents out of the picture, he took an apprenticeship with a banking firm in Hanover shortly after he turned 13. This is when he learned the "ins" and "outs" of banking and foreign trade.

Forward into the future and as the family's alpha, he left a strict rule after his death, the fortune stays in the family. According to the publication of the discover magazine of 2003, "Go Ahead, kiss your cousin". if any of the Rothschild's women marries someone outside the family, she would lose all her money, inmediately.

The family has been involved in trades since the year 1798 that go from acting like the first Central Bank of Europe, brokering purchases for kings, rescuing national banks and funding infrastructure such as, railroads, and almost every single war that was important since 1798.

Among the things that have leaked from the family history, there is one that I think is the most epic of all, I repeat, the known ones. It was the Napoleonic wars. Nathan Rothschild managed and financed several subsidies that the British government sent to different allies and loaned funds to pay the British troops almost single-handed. At the same time, he secretly funded Napoleon too, this way he was growing his own business with the even use of war. The year was 1815 and Nathan was informed that Napoleon appeared to be suffering defeat at Waterloo while the English government believed that they were the ones that were losing the battle. That was a golden opportunity for Rothschild, who began to sell all his bonds, encouraging the rumor that Napoleon had won and that the British papers will soon be worth only the paper they are written on. Soon the English market panicked and followed Rothschild lead. It was then that Rothschild's agents began buying all the bonds he came across at dirt cheap prices. Two days later, when Wellington's envoy confirmed that Napoleon Bonaparte had indeed suffered a crushing defeat, Nathan Rothschild was effectively in control of the English stock exchange. Until this day (April, 2018), England is still paying back money owed to the Rothschild family from this Napoleonic maneuver.

Now, they claim to have prosperous business in the wine industry and other niches (bull crap to me) making an effort to explain their huge estate, but this is useless and perhaps a little insulting. They thought that it might be a good idea to show $2 trillion in assets to get the people off their back, but, I mean, if it was true, forbes would had it published a long time ago, but to date, there is no mention in regards the Rothschild's fortune.

For this people, the rest of the billionaires in the world are just kids going crazy in a playground they call "the market", but they still won't say anything or seem visible in any way.

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Rupert Murdoch and President Trump: A friendship of convenience

For decades, Rupert Murdoch has used his media properties to establish a direct line to Australian and British leaders. But in the 44 years since he bought his first newspaper in the United States, he has largely failed to cultivate close ties to an American president. Until now.

Mr. Murdoch and President Trump — both forged in New York’s tabloid culture, one as the owner of The New York Post, the other as its perfect subject — have traveled in the same circles since the 1970s, but they did not become close until recently, when their interests began to align more than ever before.

Since Inauguration Day, Mr. Murdoch has talked regularly with Mr. Trump, often bypassing the White House chief of staff, Gen. John F. Kelly, who screens incoming calls. Mr. Murdoch has felt comfortable enough to offer counsel that others may shy away from, such as urging the president to stop tweeting and advising him to improve his relationship with Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson. Mr. Murdoch also has weekly conversations with Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner.

Before the news broke that Mr. Murdoch had agreed to sell vast parts of his 21st Century Fox to the Walt Disney Company for $52.4 billion, Mr. Trump called him to get his assurance that the Fox News Channel, the highly rated cable network and frequent bullhorn of the Trump agenda, would not be affected.

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On Dec. 14, the day the agreement was announced, Mr. Trump let the world know that he had made a congratulatory call to Mr. Murdoch. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, also passed along the president’s belief that the deal would be “a great thing” for jobs — a claim disputed by Wall Street analysts.

After decades of ups and downs, Mr. Trump now counts Mr. Murdoch as one of his closest confidants. The two titans made a show of their improved relationship in June 2016, when Mr. Murdoch visited Mr. Trump at the Trump International Golf Links Scotland before a group of reporters. They appeared together again at a black-tie dinner in May in honor of American and Australian veterans who fought side by side in World War II. Mr. Murdoch introduced the president as “my friend Donald J. Trump” before they engaged in a brief hug.

They are opposites in personal style, with Mr. Murdoch gruff and low-key, preferring schlubby newsrooms to Mr. Trump’s gilded towers and glitz. But they have much in common.

Both were born to wealth, but at a distance from the centers of power. Mr. Trump grew up in Jamaica, Queens, the son of a real estate developer content to earn his fortune in the boroughs outside Manhattan — so close but so far from glittering Midtown, where the son would make his name and his home. Mr. Murdoch, the son of a journalist who became the owner of a newspaper chain, spent his childhood in Melbourne, Australia. Mr. Murdoch, 86, and Mr. Trump, 71, are also alike in that they were both sent to military schools as boys before going on to outdo their fathers in the family businesses.

Although both men parlayed their inheritances into global power, they have stubbornly viewed themselves as outsiders at odds with the establishment. When Mr. Murdoch entered the British newspaper market in 1968, London society shunned him and his vulgar tabloids, The Sun and The News of the World, which he used to wound his enemies and advance his political interests. Mr. Trump withstood a similar wariness among the elite after he made himself a Manhattan player through his brazen deal making and hucksterism.

To make their way upward in New York, both men relied on a powerful friend, the lawyer Roy M. Cohn, a ruthless fixer who made his name in the 1950s as the chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy, the Red-baiting senator, before representing some of the city’s most powerful figures, including the mobster John Gotti and the New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.

Mr. Cohn connected Mr. Trump to Mr. Murdoch and the tabloid he bought in 1976, The New York Post. The upstart developer saw that he could benefit from the brash daily — especially its Page Six gossip column, which started a year after Mr. Murdoch became the paper’s owner.

“Trump was interested in specifically Rupert’s ownership of The Post, because Page Six is very important to his rising stature in New York City and branding efforts,” said Roger J. Stone Jr., a Republican operative who has known both men for decades.

Mr. Trump seemed to revel in the tabloid’s saucy coverage of his personal life. In 1989 and 1990, The Post turned out a series of front pages on Mr. Trump’s split from his first wife, Ivana Trump, and his affair with Marla Maples. The stream of headlines in bold block letters culminated in a quote attributed to Ms. Maples: “Best Sex I’ve Ever Had.”

Mr. Trump’s enthusiastic response to the planned Disney-Fox megadeal may have been lost in the swirl of Washington news had it not been for his vehement opposition to another recent attempt at media consolidation — AT&T’s proposed $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner, the parent company of CNN, a frequent target of the president’s “fake news” complaints. While so far making no move on the Disney-Fox plan, the Justice Department has sued to block the AT&T-Time Warner deal on antitrust grounds in a rare instance of governmental interference in a merger of two companies that do not directly compete with each other.

Mr. Murdoch, whose ideology is more malleable than his critics realize, has long gained from his knack for placing himself close to power. In the 1980s, when he was cozy with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, his London tabloids took a pro-Tory stance. In 1997, his newspapers endorsed the Labor Party leader Tony Blair for prime minister.

Lance Price, a former Blair spokesman, referred to Mr. Murdoch as “effectively a member of Blair’s cabinet.” In turn, Mr. Murdoch faced little government scrutiny as he expanded his media empire to reach 40 percent of British newspaper readers and millions of television viewers through his stake in Sky, a pay TV service. But after a 2011 phone hacking scandal at the now-shuttered News of the World put a spotlight on his remarkable political influence, he found himself facing regulatory hurdles, and his $15 billion bid for a 61 percent stake of Sky came to nothing.

Even as Mr. Murdoch enjoyed an open invitation to 10 Downing Street, he found that his overtures to United States presidents mostly fell short. And before making their alliance, Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Trump had to put their old spats behind them.

Before the recent rapprochement, Mr. Murdoch privately called Mr. Trump “phony,” and accused him of exaggerating his net worth. For his part, Mr. Trump once threatened to sue Mr. Murdoch for libel after The Post reported that the storied Maidstone Club in East Hampton, N.Y., had denied him membership.

During much of the 2016 presidential campaign, Mr. Murdoch — who initially swooned over Jeb Bush — stood against Mr. Trump, declaring that he was “embarrassing his friends” and “the whole country.” The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Murdoch’s crown jewel, ran an editorial calling the candidate a “catastrophe.” The Post led with the headline “Don Voyage” and declared, “Trump is toast.”

Mr. Trump on Twitter: “Wow, I have always liked the @nypost but they have really lied when they covered me in Iowa.” He also the Journal: “Look how small the pages have become @WSJ,” he wrote. “Looks like a tabloid — saving money I assume!”

The Post ended up endorsing Mr. Trump, with reservations, in the New York primary, but refrained from endorsing either him or Hillary Clinton in the general election.

More recently, Mr. Murdoch expressed exasperation with Mr. Trump’s immigration policies. In response to the White House ban on travel of people from majority-Muslim nations, his company, 21st Century Fox, released a memo offering assistance to any employees hurt by the executive order and reminding them that “21CF is a global company, proudly headquartered in the U.S., founded by — and comprising at all levels of the business — immigrants.” In August, James Murdoch, the younger son of Mr. Murdoch and the chief executive of 21st Century Fox, condemned the president’s response to the riots in Charlottesville, Va.

The man partly responsible for the détente was another moneyed outsider who craved status and respect: Jared Kushner.

When Mr. Kushner bought The New York Observer in 2006, he wasted little time reaching out to Mr. Murdoch. “He wanted to be Murdoch,” said one person close to both men at the time. In early 2016, after a presidential debate during which Mr. Trump faced aggressive questioning from Megyn Kelly, then a Fox News anchor, the candidate sent Mr. Kushner to Mr. Murdoch on a media diplomacy mission.

Mr. Kushner’s wife, Ivanka Trump, is close friends with Mr. Murdoch’s third wife, Wendi Deng. Mr. Murdoch and Ms. Deng attended the Kushner-Trump wedding in 2009 at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., and the Murdoch daughters, Grace and Chloe, served as flower girls.

Before Mr. Murdoch and Ms. Deng divorced in 2013, Mr. Kushner and Ms. Trump vacationed on Rosehearty, Mr. Murdoch’s 184-foot sailing yacht. In a further sign of the two families’ closeness, Ms. Trump took on the job of Murdoch trustee responsible for overseeing the two girls’ $300 million fortune — a role she gave up a month before President Trump took office.

In June 2016, when Mr. Trump appeared to be the inevitable Republican nominee, Mr. Murdoch made the visit to Trump International Golf Links Scotland. Completed in 2012 over the objections of nearby residents, the course lies 35 miles from the herring-fishing port of Rosehearty, the town left behind by the Murdoch clan when it emigrated to Australia in 1884.

Mr. Murdoch arrived with the former model Jerry Hall, his fourth wife, whom he married in March 2016. Under cloudy skies, the newlyweds toured the property in a golf cart large enough for four. Mr. Trump was at the wheel, with Ms. Hall seated beside him. Mr. Murdoch, wearing sunglasses, sat on a backward-facing rumble seat as they made their way to the Trump-refurbished Macleod House, a 15th century mansion, where they had dinner.

Mr. Trump’s mended relationship with Mr. Murdoch has not gone unnoticed by Time Warner executives, who wonder why AT&T’s attempt to buy the company has run into regulatory trouble at a time when the president has smiled on the Disney-Fox deal.

“If you look at the facts of our case, even before you heard the administration’s endorsement of the Disney-Fox deal, it was hard to understand how the Justice Department could reach a decision to block our deal,” Jeffrey L. Bewkes, the chief executive of Time Warner, said.

A spokesman for the White House, Raj Shah, said that Mr. Trump hadn’t spoken to Attorney General Jeff Sessions about the AT&T-Time Warner deal and that “no White House official was authorized to speak with the Department of Justice on this matter.”

The way CNN’s parent company views it, Fox News has adopted a role similar to the one played by Mr. Murdoch’s British tabloids when they helped advance the agendas of British leaders. As Mr. Blair learned, however, even a special relationship with the media baron can sour quickly. He and Mr. Murdoch — once so close that Mr. Blair was the godfather to Grace Murdoch — are no longer on speaking terms.

During the British government’s 2012 inquiry into the mogul’s political influence, the former prime minister described what it was like when a story subject falls out of favor with a Murdoch-controlled tabloid.

“Once they’re against you, that’s it,” Mr. Blair said. “It’s full on, full frontal, day in, day out, basically a lifetime commitment.”

Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.

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