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What if the most decisive moment of the Napoleonic Wars didn’t happen on the battlefield — but on the bond desk?

In this episode of The Timeless Investor Show, Arie van Gemeren unpacks one of the most legendary (and controversial) financial trades in history: Nathan Rothschild’s alleged bond market coup during the Battle of Waterloo.

We explore:

• How the Rothschild network outpaced governments with faster intelligence

• Why market psychology is the ultimate weapon in financial warfare

• How this moment marked the shift from military to monetary dominance

• And what this all reveals about the financialization of empires — from the 1800s to today

This is more than a story about the past. It’s a blueprint for how modern power works.

This story is often repeated in financial lore — sometimes exaggerated or apocryphal — and should be understood in the context of broader shifts in capital, not ethnicity or identity.

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