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How QE2 Helped Main Street, Example 1: High-End Diamond Retailers
How QE2 Helped Main Street, Example 1: High-End Diamond Retailers
One justification for bailing out Wall Street was that it would ultimately help Main Street. Last timewe looked at the diamond price index for 1-ct diamonds. Today we investigate the effects of QE2 on that most Main Street of businesses--the high-end diamond retailer.
Below is a chart for the price of 3-carat diamonds (the RAPI index, based on the price of the best 25 diamonds of a given size, clarity, and colour).
At the prices quoted, a single diamond of this size would set you back about $110,000. Hopefully she's worth it.
There are two significant periods of rising prices--early 2010, and November 2010 to June 2011, during which time prices rose about 30%. The official CPI (excluding food and energy) was 1-2% over the same interval. We note that this last interval corresponds approximately with the timing of QE2, and congratulate the Federal Reserve for aiding Main Street business.
In a related chart, we see that jewellry prices and sales rose through the first half of 2011.
In our next installment we will compile the caviar index and the well-known 100-year-old-port index to see how these Main Street retailers have been affected by QE2.
(source:http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-how-qe2-helped-main-street-example-1-high-end-diamond-retailers)
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