diamonds are so last year. inflation fears anyone? gold.
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They're a scam because diamonds are actually many, many times more common that the population is led to believe.
De Beers has essentially artificially driven the price of diamonds higher by buying up most of the world's mines and mining rights, especially in diamond intense fields in Africa and other regions where governments are corrupt and easily bribed, and then severely limiting the release and flow of diamonds onto the market in any given time frame.
Generally speaking, of however many diamonds De Beers mines in a given year, they release less than 1% onto the market.