I used to love bashing De Beers, and if you read through the archive of the many articles I have written in the past, you will see that I did so with fervor. Read More...

Of course, you cannot believe everything you read in the papers, and what you see on television is just as likely to be based on myth as reality... Read More...

Newsweek recently ran an article that I found quite condescending. Titled “Women are no longer waiting for men to shower them with gems,”... Read More...

There’s been a lot of talk in the jewelry and diamond industry about how to reach Millennials, a group of 77 million young American consumers – just under a quarter of the US population Read More...

Anyone else confused? It turns out that all this marketing to Millennials and putting the young, hip, technologically savvy consumers in a special (and exalted) category of their own might not be as wise as marketers have led us all to believe. Read More...

In the fall of last year, Antwerp’s International Gemological Institute (IGI) encountered multiple submissions for grading reports of a number of large temporary color enhanced stones... Read More...

I’ve had a little time to think over the announcement made at the recent JCK Las Vegas show that Forevermark, the diamond brand from De Beers... Read More...

The advent of a reversible (temporary) color enhancement treatment in the diamond market potentially presents a radical “game changer”... Read More...

When the US Fed wants to slow economic growth, it raises interest rates. When it wants to stimulate economic growth, it lowers interest rates. That’s an application of supply and demand. Read More...

Sometimes, it seems that there isn’t any positive news out there – and this is one of those times. Read More...