Elected officials in the United States can wait no longer to invest public transport. I hate walking places. Truly. And biking is even worse. Here in Reims, I call my precarious dance on the rustic cobblestones my cobble-wobble, and I […]
“A Diamond Is Forever”, A Monopoly is Not.
Tracking the diamond market through the rise and fall of De Beers. A blood diamond, or “conflict diamond”, as labeled by the United Nations, is a diamond mined in areas controlled by rebel forces, and sold with the purpose of […]