Expensive Diamond Sells for Record Price In 2014 Hong Kong real estate mogul Joseph Lau bought his daughter, Zoe, a rare 10 carat blue diamond for $32.6 million! But when his other daughter, Josephine, found out she understandably became jealous and asked him for an expensive diamond too. He couldn’t help but feel guilty and obliged to buy her something special as well.… Read More »
I recently read a study suggesting that there is a correlation between the cost of engagement rings and the duration of marriages. Researchers looked at 3,000 U.S. adults who had been married at some point in their lives, and found that subjects were more likely to end up divorced if they had spent large sums of money on engagement rings… Read More »
I got a call earlier this week from a fellow who works for a diamond brokerage firm. I gave them my contact information when I went to a resource conference earlier this year. He wanted to tell me that their Vancouver office is holding a seminar later this month about investing in diamonds. Fancy colored diamonds in particular. I thought… Read More »
I don’t drink coffee so it has never occurred to me before how big this industry is. Apparently after crude oil, coffee is the most sought commodity in the world. People drink over 500 billion cups of it each year. That’s a lot considering there’s only 7 billion people on this planet. Starbucks is a growing company that is… Read More »