tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038406348219751696.post3569220609393496774..comments2023-07-31T07:06:58.336-04:00Comments on GemThoughts: All you need is LoveBen Janowski, Janos Consultantshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17303747263751240923noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038406348219751696.post-51060853568995964922017-11-26T23:50:29.003-05:002017-11-26T23:50:29.003-05:00Love Comes from diamonds like lab grown diamonds, ...Love Comes from diamonds like <a href="http://www.labgrowndiamoand.com" rel="nofollow">lab grown diamonds</a>, <a href="http://www.labgrowndiamoand.com" rel="nofollow">lab created diamonds</a>, <a href="http://www.labgrowndiamoand.com" rel="nofollow">man made diamonds</a> etc. That's the perfect make jewelry. Thanks for post.Riddhi Diamondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11696199982230209434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038406348219751696.post-39494978436263276322017-09-14T14:00:24.552-04:002017-09-14T14:00:24.552-04:00As ever, PJ, you put the right spin on it. I too ...As ever, PJ, you put the right spin on it. I too am pleased and impressed when I see young people working hard to make their way in the jewelry business in spite of their awareness of what they need to confront. I too saw wholesale destruction (I did not have to read about it - I experienced it) that started with the oil embargo in the mid-70s, followed by insane inflation, the dropping of all import duties on diamonds, the manic run-up of gold and diamond prices and then the explosion of the biggest bubble ever. <br />All of that damaged the established US jewelry business so badly that it never recovered the breadth of its former glory. <br />Past glories are just that, past. And new epiphanies are very rare, as are truly talented jewelers. But it still happens.Ben Janowski, Janos Consultantshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17303747263751240923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038406348219751696.post-5264411810060780302017-09-14T12:42:25.988-04:002017-09-14T12:42:25.988-04:00Ben, your post is such a great commentary. Thank y...Ben, your post is such a great commentary. Thank you. This is an epoch changing time -- and history shows us it will not be easy. It never is. But I am heartened by small examples of designers, jewelry makers, and retailers who are riding on this new frontier and innovating successfully. It has ever been thus. And note that I said "who" not "that" -- the impersonal and big will (and are) struggling more. Innovation is coming from smaller enterprises, from what I can see. The most adept of the "bigs" will make it, of course, but I still mourn the great jewelry companies that faded at the time of the Great Depression (it was staggering to see when I was writing the history of the Twenty-Four Karat Club). But a whole new set of smaller companies rose from the ashes and became the bigger companies of the post-war era. Peggy Jo Donahuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07601202547455175930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038406348219751696.post-80258805795845673392017-09-13T10:42:19.441-04:002017-09-13T10:42:19.441-04:00Thank you as always for your thoughts and visions....Thank you as always for your thoughts and visions. Totally agree that our industry has had a major change and will continue to do so. There are no immediate panaceas for these times; I do know that much. The Diamond Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13005541337386538271noreply@blogger.com