Stacey Vanek-Smith

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2,095 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 19 Sep

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Platypus Economics with Justin Wolfers · How Lab-Grown Diamonds Broke the Market | Off the Clock · 15 Aug 2026 podcast

Um, I think a lot of I think if there was at an economics conference, if there was something on like chart like chart wars, it would be a crowded room.

I did not bring that word up that was one hundred percent your I did

Contribute.

all I will that's all I'll admit to.

Also though, aren't more people maybe retiring right now because mo a lot of the American population is older than younger because our whatever uh is is it possible that we're gonna need to start replacing more jobs that it's gonna grow from fifty thousand?

Me too.

Some of my favorite people are immigrants.

I am talking about you.

Um, absolutely.

Diamonds.

So this is a market.

I am so excited to talk with you about this because uh basically

During the pandemic, lab grown diamonds really took off.

I mean, diamonds have been some of the most valuable products on earth for centuries.

Um, the prices have just really

maintained for years and years and years.

It was one of the most secure investments you could make.

Enter the lab grown diamond for a long it was invented in the fifties, the process, but they didn't really get to sort of gem quality diamonds until

maybe the last ten or twenty years, and then it was still pretty expensive to grow them.

But the technology got cheaper and cheaper, and then during the pandemic

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