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The news gets better for jewelry in America

I must admit that a range of activities and diversions have kept me from writing for the last couple of months.  My apologies to those who await my missives with bated breath.  No one has complained, I am sorry to report. But, on the brighter side, maybe it is because everyone is busy with a good finish to the year.  I hope that is the case.  I have heard that to be the case as I begin to attend various year-end parties and meetings.  The pattern we have been seeing for the last few years seems to be continuing, and perhaps intensifying.  Some suppliers and retailers at the higher end of the jewelry market have already had a very good year, while those in the mid-market and lower end continue to struggle. Part of that, of course, is a continuation of a long-standing fact about our industry.  There has always been more capacity to manufacture than there is demand, especially in the mass market.  In an era of growing income disparity, the problem is dramatically evident, and is comp