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The network effects were self-reinforcing. Each government contract gave the Rothschilds more information about European finance. More information made their services more valuable. More value attracted more clients. More clients generated more information. The topology created an information monopoly that competitors couldn't break without building an equivalent network—which required exactly the international connections the Rothschilds already controlled.