Great read. Amazing what wealthy interests can do to a market. I had to smile at the ending: "By the mid-1980s, the avalanche of Australian diamonds will be po

Great read. Amazing what wealthy interests can do to a market. I had to smile at the ending: "By the mid-1980s, the avalanche of Australian diamonds will be pouring onto the market. Unless the resourceful managers of De Beers can find a way to gain control of the various sources of diamonds that will soon crowd the market, these sources may bring about the final collapse of world diamond prices. If they do, the diamond invention will disintegrate and be remembered only as a historical curiosity, as brilliant in its way as the glittering little stones it once made so valuable." As the diamond market hasn't collapsed 30 years on, De Beers must still be doing something right.