Diamonds Are Still Forever. Especially If They Are Lab Grown

One of the side effects of social awareness among millennials is how many young brides are coming to embrace lab grown diamonds as equally beautiful but more ethically sourced alternatives to "blood" diamonds. It doesn’t hurt that the Gemological Institute of America qualifies these synthetic diamonds as “real diamonds” – but the significant discount may be the most important reason why these new man-made diamonds could take a real piece of the $80 billion diamond industry, and change the way some global economies work in the process. Read the full story on The Washington Post > Love non-obvious stories? Get my weekly newsletter with stories like this one along with a short but useful analysis of why it matters ... all delivered directly to your inbox every Thursday morning!

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