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understand. the thing is, to your point, i just don't know when the politicians will say that it is my bad. >> we are a forgiving country. neil: you will get a great deal of support. that is not to make a fool out of you. but i see that it is very interesting. >> it is going back to money and politics. there are special interest groups and.
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>> i am very honest. but i cannot vote in america yet. >> i will make sure that you don't. [laughter] >> i'm kidding. >> the final line, we are not making a lot of progress. >> we are not. the day of reckoning will come. maybe it is the 2014 midterm elections were the president and he can stall and delay in the american people will be hurt again. >> these guys work for us. we hired them. neil: we work for the people and we have to be accountable as well. [talking over each other] [talking over each other] >> meanwhile, we have an update coming up next next.
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gerri: tonight on "the willis report," the most ridiculous resignation letter ever, the ceo's words like you neveherd >> coming up next on "the willis report." some colleges don't care about gpa.for we will tell you what they are really looking for. american bran, and can it rise again? "the willis report" is on the case. ♪
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gerri: no, no, that didn't happen, just kidding. there's no apocalypse. despite the white house making wild doomsday predictions if the automatic spending cuts, today, the sequester is a snoozer. the house and senate are not in session today. with more on this, grover nor qis, douglas holtz-eakin, and a former cbo director and steve forbes, chairman and editor in chief of forbes media, starting with you, sir. surprise that we're still here? that western civilization continues as we know it? >> oh, absolutely, and i think they've got all the apocalypse talk because if you do a small cult, we lived with it, why not do more, and so we saw in new jersey, we have a budget today rith thgover, will spending.
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spending. somebody goes left the other goes east it is hard tog agree. we have to work through regular order with the president signing bills.s the action is a democrat-controlled senate.h republicans and house passing legislation but 20
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democrats are up for reelection in 2014. they are hiding in haven't done a budget in four years. [laughter] we should shine a light to see what those people are doing. gerri: that is their legal obligation. i don't understand it. listen to this statement from the president about blame. >> put forth a plan that calls for serious spending cuts and serious and have unreformed that is at the heart of the long-term deficit problem. o i have offered negotiations around that balanced approach and so far we have then rebuffed because of speaker boehner and republicans said we cannot do any revenue.
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what more do think i shouldt do? gerri: it's not my fault. my hands are clean. >> the of the balanced budget will be out of the house in a couple weeks will balance the first teniers the democrats have higher taxes and were spending. there is in a bigger difference than the president has not put out serious in time of reforms would you say heads or tails he says taxes. you have to think of something else eventually going down the road isueohet damaging to the comedy --r economy. >> this is the first good news we have had a long timere that isn't taking resources out of the economy. the government gets its money from you for printing money which is another form of taxation. this president thinks it
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comes from resources ofs productive peoples, to put in the hands of bureaucrats. gerri: you would think it is good news according to the stock market. >> just like the battered wife stops and you say oh my goodness. [laughter] gerri: that is the funniest thing i have heard all day. heard about not being a tt.en listen to this. >> i am not a dictator. i am the president. ultimately is mitch mcconnell or john painter say we have to catch a plane , i cannot have secret service block the doorway. the fact they don't take it means i should somehow doa the agenda i mind meld?ed
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gerri: where are we going here grover? >> the president is of little bit confused and shaken up. the sequester was his idea. he roughed up bob woodward but this is his idea he signed legislation to put this into effect. he thought about it. he did this instead of reform that the republicans and house wanted. t this is what he said the -- instead of the right and veggies that the republicans would recoil because defense spending would not risele rise, watching too much cable television becauseid hoping they would not get what they were hoping for but only four of thosebsent people not the modern republican party or the
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people. gerri: doo you think what has happened with the sequestered you will have him sign it within the hour. apocalypse now or apocalypse not? raise your hand. come on. it looks like it is unanimous. >> i thoughtun in apocalypse the good guys won?igh [laughter] d gerri: come up with the details. what do you think?t when it comes to the sequester is apocalypse now or apocalypse not? we will see how you vote. a stars with fiscal mismanagement. michigan's governor declared a financial emergency in detroit. the city's broke, and on the brng of becoming the largest
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city in the country to have a state take over its finances. we talked both the issue last night, and if you missed it, renowned journalist and author, charlie, laid out in clear terms what went wng if the motor city. >> a lot of things. there's a big racial issue that we never confronted, like, the south did, anddownons took -- unions took a bit, management whept with it, made bad cars, japanese made the good cars, oil embargoes, trade pacts, a lot of things all at once. dwaight comes, boom, the real estate collapses. the whole country feels the lack of manufacturing now i think. gerri: detroit was once the fifth largest city in the country, but a quarter of the population left in the last decade now ranking 18th. sad story. well, more to come in the hour incoming the downward spiral of
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the most popular retail chains in american history. is jcpenney dead? one of the most talked about exits from a ceo ever. next, why i think the former head of groupon sounds like a 10-year-old. ♪
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♪ gerri: when comes to saying good-bye, there's very memorable departures. who could forget the fed up flight attenadapt who pull the emergency flight on the last day, even grabbing a beer before going feet first down the slide. we just had another high profile departure, no quite as dramatic, butt -- but the ceo of groupon was fired after a terrible earnings report. the "washington post" declared the ceo writes the best
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resignation letter ever. i actually think it was one of the worst. it sounded like something written by a 10-year-old, so we have a special guest tonight to read the resignation letter. 10-year-old actor who recently starred as young charlie chaplain in the broadway muse calg. take it away. >> people of groupon, after four and a half intense and wonderful years as ceo of groupon, i've decided i'd like to spend more time with my family. just kidding. i was fired today. if you're wondering why, you have not been paying attention from controversial metrics in the s1 to material weakness to twquarters of missing our own expectations, and the stock price that's hovs around one quarter of the listing price. the events of the last year and a half speak for themselves. as ceo, i am accountable. you are doing a amazing things as groupon, and you deserve the
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outside world to give you a second chance. i'm getting in the way of that. a fresh ceo earns you that chance. the board is aligned to be beline the strategy we shared over the last few month, and i've never seen you working to the more effectively as a global company. it's time to give groupon a relief valve from the public noise. if there's one piece of wisdom at the simple pilgrim would like to impart upon you, have the courage to start with the customer. my biggest regrets are the moments that i let a lack of data override by intuition on what's best for our customers. this leadership change gives you some breathing room to break bad habits and deliver sutainable customer happiness. don't waste the opportunity. i will miss you terribly. love, andrew. [applause] yeah! ethan, way to go. >> tong. -- thank you. >> well done, wow. not what you expect from a ceo of a company; right?
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it lacks. others did it better like steve jobs who wrote this, i believe apple's brightest and most innovative days ahead of it, and i look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role. that was good. even this, the ceo of lehman brothers sounded like a classic guy in the resignation saying, i believe that we've worked together effectively in achieving an prompt -- appropriate transition accordingly. it's time for me to move on resign as chairman of the board. in the end, the ceo is entitled to severance benefits because he was terminatedwithout cause by the board as if chopping three quarters off the share price or abandoned thousands of employees was not good reason to can the executive boy. running a public company is not child's play. investors are not chumps to find your swiss bank accounts, and employees, well they are not
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fellow play mat. later in the show, we asked the lawyerers is it legal for a homeless man to sue his parents for his bad lot in life? next, an american retail constitution, and now jcpenney on life support. can it be revived or time to pull the plug? stay with us. ♪ alec, for this mission i upgraded your smart phone. ♪ right. but the most important feature of all is... the capital one purchase eraser. i can redeem the double miles i earned with my venture card to erase recent travel purchases. d with a few clicks, this mission never happened. uh, what's this button do? [ electricity zaps ] ♪ you requested backup? yes. yes i did. what's in your wallet?
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♪ gerri: well, in what could be one of the worst quarters ever,
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ever in retail history, jcpenney seems to be running out of options. where contactually did the retailer go wrong, and does it have a chance to come back? grant, an international sales exterritory, and the author of "the only difference between success and failure," grant, welcome to the show. good to see you. >> good to see you. gerri: any way the company can come back? th made bi missteps. >> sure, they can come back. when they -- when they go back to the founding principles of jane cash penny who founded it in 1902 based on customer experience, golden rules o retail, give the customer more than expected, which is not something they pay for. that goes beyond what they came to get with the product and the price, and theycompletely abandon those concepts. when they get back to that, they have a chance of bringing back customer loyalty. gerri: look, the report was
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sales down 28.4%. boom. i mean, that is bad. i mean, -- >> brutal. gerri: terrible. >> yeah. in a time we have an economy there appears to be recovering and other retail environments succeeding, automobile dealers doing great, macy's improving, radio shack doing well, and jcpenney, a great american brand is suffering, why? it's interesting. gerri: screwed up. >> yeah, well, penny used to say he believed it was criminal, a crime not to sell the customer. when you go to a jcpenney today, you're lucky to get greeted. you won't be acknowledged much less sold anything. gerri: gear they are not about that. we went to the street to ask new yorkers what they thought when they heard the name "jcpenney." this is what they thought. >> jcpenney, cheap clothes. >> not happy with it anymore. >> change. too much change. we want the coupons and sales back. okay?
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>> like she said, cheap, just a cheap undertone now. >> i don't -- it's sad. i don't shop at jcpenney. >> apple computer. >> company clothes. >> jcpenney? gerri: she's a gucci girl. i'll explain something out of that. the fellow who said "apple," referring to the fact that ron johnson was runng the company, developed e apple store, highly successful apple store concept everybody loves. it doesn't feel like a store, but a high end hotel lobby or something. why can't he make that translate? what's the disconnect between developing the most successful retail format of the last 50 years, and what's going on right now in a jcenney store in any city in the country? >> yeah. because the answer is a piece of new technology is different than
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the interest in a hanest-shirt, you know? the price drives people to apparel. it doesn't close the transaction, and technology, the gimmick of technology, the interest in new technology, is what drives traffic so when johnson came in and went to the everyday pricing, it's a nice gimmick, but the reality is, you know, you've abandoned 80 years of consumers getting -- being familiar with coupons and immediate sales and discount opportunities, which was driving the traffic. now, jcpenney needs to figure out tow ho take the -- out how t make the sec and third sale. gerri: what do you do? bring back sales, okay, but what else? >> hire company, like myself, come in to turn that company around. seriously -- gerri: that's shameless. >> they would turn it into a sales environment and say, look,
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we're here to make a sale. we cannot create customer loyalty without assisting a client. develop a customized training program for the groups of jcp or jcpenney, whatever they call themselves, have from the front door, a greeting to the department to the cash register all the way to follow-up, and stay with the customer and create a customer loyalty experience that people want to pay for. gerri: if they had sales, people would be back. people want sales. grant, good to have you here, good to see you, mister. thanks for being whus to plain this really sad story. thank you. >> thank you, gerri. gerri: coming up, are colleges changing their criteria for admission? a story every parent should hear. next, we ask is it legal, a homeless man suing his parents saying his bad luck in life is because his parents didn't love him enough. yeah, stay with us.
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gerri: time to update a big consumer story we've been following, and it concerns the fuel economy of cars. the epa wants to make sure they advertise miles of hybrids, matches what you get in the real world. now, the move com after consumer reports this year said the advertised mileage on hybrids are not realistic. mileage testing is done by auto makers, and the government just signs off on the results, but critics of that process say the numbers don't reflect actual driving habits. when they do, the results are typically much lower. in news tonight, a state department report gives new me men tum to the building of the keystone pipeline saying the project poses no threat to the
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environment. the study is intended to guide the obama administration's final decision on the issue. could be good news. the report was welcomed by backers of the pipeline. no word yet when the white house makes a final decision. could be by the end of the month. we'll certainly cover that for yo well, on to a legal case you're going to love. parents get blamed for about everything these das, but a homeless man in new york is taking family's strife to a new level. 32-year-old aspiring rapper, bernard bay, slams parents with a $200,000 lawsuit because, get this, says they didn't give him enough love. joining us an tern and fox business analyst, leis. this story is crazy. does he have a case in >> absolutely not. once dwrowr a -- you're a man of age, 18, you're
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gone, it's over. to come back at age 32, asking, gerri, i want you parents to mortgage your house to the tune of $200,000 so, what? so i can buy a couple franchises, domino's pizza. do they all spend the night? gerri: you disagree, why? >> it sounds crazy, and he probably is crazy, mentally ill. he's trying to get his family's attention. he said he would drop the suit if they invited him to dinnerment the parents are responsible to provide for him at 32, but, clearly, he received abe, gone through a lot, and he's trying to get the parents' attention. maybe this is the only way to do it. gerri: wait, getting -- okay, so should this be in the criminal court system? >> no. i'm embarrassed a lawyer took this because, you know, got into the system -- gerri: i think we earlier tablished --
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[talking over each other] >> anything can happen, mcdonald's coffee, did anyone think a million dollars came fromhat? let's not cut everything off this way. his parents live in the projects, no money, no one's going to get anything even if he did sue. it's, you know, a mentally ill child that should have had help a long time ago. what are they waiting on? he's now a burden on society. gerri: here's the question. who pays for this? where is the money coming from for this? he's in the court of law, got an attorney -- >> the lawyer -- >> doing it himself, i doubt legal aid would. typed it up himself. >> on a contingency basis. i think they got this filed, they are just hoping -- they won't get 200, but 20,000-something like that. gerri: would settle for $500? >> i think so. can you imagine being in that
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household for dinner? gerri: the mother says she's frightened of her son. did you read that? >> well, yeah, again, another, you know, big sign. maybe you should have gotten him help as a child. he's mentally ill. >> come on. at what point -- >> what about when he was 12 and 5? they just don't happen when you're 32. >> oh, i don't know. gerri: take responsibility for yourself, though? >> here's the problem with that rationale. a slippery slope argument that any time then, if this goes forward, any time a parent missed a school play or didn't wipe a nose properly or forgot the homework or didn't pack a lunch, you can get sued when your child is 32? that's where we are going with this. >> i'm not saying you'll prevail, don't get me wwrong, bt you can. with this topic, it's clear this man is mentally ill. they should have taken care of it a long time ago as a child, and maybe now he would not be
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homeless living off the state. they have a responsibility. >> public dollars wasted. this is what the jge should do -- throw this out. gerri: okay. we sttled this one. i think this is done. you're 32 on your own, buddy. >> yep. gerri: thanks for coming on, great conversation, appreciate both sides of that. how to make your port portfolio sparkle. talking about diamonds, my friend. stick of pushing kids to get good grades in school? turns out, they y not need straight a's to get into the best schools. i'm not kidding. i'll tell you all about it next. ♪
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♪ gerri: well, it's a number high
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schoolers and parents think about most applying for college, their gpas, but now the nation' most competitive institutions bareey even look at it, meaningless according to the admissions dean at the university of virginia, and the top private college in the princeton review, its admission's dean says the scores are artificial. do students believe that? we have cat cohen, ceo and founder of ivy wise. welcome to the show. should kids stop paying attention to the gpas? >> pay attention to their grades and not so much that average number because grades are predictive of how a student performs in college. grades and rigorousness of courses is what a college looks for. gerri: what you say is that the average really doesn't tell admissions officers enough about your career in high school; right? what is it they are looking for when they are looking at grades? >> well -- so the average, if i tell youa student is a 3.7, we
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don't know what the student's strengths are, the math/science kid, mew manties kids, and when we hear that gpa, is a weighted or unweighted. high schools weight gpas, so an advanced placement class, they give that a extra point. sometimes, high schools give an extra point, sometimes they give just a fraction of a point. it's hard to understand what that gpa really means. gerri: the number itself doesn't tell a lot. the admissions officers look at the grades over the course of your high school experience; right? they look at where you excelled, where you did well out, there could be a change overtime and grades got better as years went op. >> right. a student with a 3 #.5, that doesn't tell you if they started a 3.0 and ended at the 4.0, looks great, working harder, or is it the reverse. also, what's included in the gpa in terms of courses? are they conning physical
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education? some high schools do that. that can inflate the gpa. it's not accurate. gerri: reason it bris it down. let's talk about what colleges look for. rigor? i have no idea what that means. >> to see if students take the most advanced courses they are eligible for. if your high school offers advanced placement classes or honors classes, do you take advantage of the curriculum? gerri: doing the hard stuff, you get rewarded for that by the admissions officers? >> exactly. gerri: grades are important and considered. standardized test scores. okay, i know people taking sates now, take it once, not twice, once, over and over again, getting the good grades. what's the grade you need and what are officers looking for in the grades? >> generally, looking to see your standardized test scores match your grades. you don't want to see is, you know, a straight a student with very low standardized test scores because maybe that means their high school is, you know, inflating the grades, and you
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don't want to see the opposite either. you don't want to see super high test scores and low grades because the student could look lazy in the classroom. you generally want to see they are the same. gerri: what's interesting in the list is extracurricular activities. what's going on, especially with the ivies, the better schools in the country, they are looking for kids showing leadership at a young age, all kinds of ways to do that, but they want an extensive extracurricular background. >> looking to see how students impact through their interests, and not doing 50 things, but looking at students who choose a few things, dive into it, and do them well. gerri: all right. demonstrated interests. what's that? >> that's so important. so many students forget about this. show the college that you're interested inattending the school. maybe you go and visit the school or maybe there's an event goingon -- gerri: that makes a difference? >> it does. it does. there's an event going on -- gerri: wear a t-shirt with the
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school's logo on it, and you're in? >> well, unless they see you. there's a lot of ways you can sthoa a college you're interested. gerri: cat, thanks for coming on today. great stuff. >> thankyou. gerri: on this day in business history, one the early sensations of the interpret age, yahoo, founded way back in 1995, serving 700 million people, it's the second most visited site after google. widely known for online news, sports, and finance, yahoo reach the the peak closing share price of almost $119 in 2000, and had a market cap of $63 billion. today, the shares closed at -- around $22, a market cap of $25 billion. they were incorporated today, march 1st, 18 years ago. can you believe that? i can't believe that. well, still to come, being too plugged in happens, and up next, going in fashion with a look at a girl's best friend.
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and, obviously, astonishing throughput. obviously... you know how fast our home wifi is? yeah. this is basically just asast. oh. and verizon's got more fast lte coverage than all other networks combined. it's better. yes. oh, why didn't you just say that? huh-- what is he doing? gerri: want to put sparkle in the portfolio? comi up, in fashion shows you how to invest in rare color
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♪ gerri: in fashion tonight, putting glits into investments with extraordinary diamonds.
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in particular, color diamonds, which have grown in popularity over the recent years. joining me now with an exclusive look at a $50 million diamond collectionings brought it right here, is lisa kline, executive vice president of one of the lanchest diamond manufacturers in the world. lisa, welcome to the show. great to have you here. >> great to be here, thank you. gei: this is my first introduction to colored diamonds, but they are incredibly popular. why are they colored, yellow, pink, blue? >> so, simply put, color is determined by the chemical components that are found in the mines where these diamonds a mined, so, for example -- gerri: in the arth? >> in the dirt and actual earth blends itself to a specific color. gerri: what do you like best here? >> oh, that's a trick question. for me, personally, i love this two karot vivid blue ring.
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there's a chemical component that makes the blue diamond have a blue ue, and boron is found in the mines where blue dimes are found. it's interesting. there's a very strong scientific component. gerri: the setting is unusual. it's a flower and it's charming. >> it is. we have an in-house team of designers and jewelers, and every pair of stones or collection of stoned received, we sit down with the team, and we really let the damond do the talking, so -- gerri: let the diamond talk. >> yes, they talk to us. gerri: you got it right. your diamond whisperers. that's what you are. what's interesting is you have pink, blue, yellow, and, apparently, this is what investors clammo for now, why? >> the reason they are interested in the stones is because they are incredibly, incredibly rare. colored diamonds over the past
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few years have become increasingly rare. gerri: the piping one,oh, my lord, it's gorgeous. you'd say pink sapphire, but it's not. >> exactly. that's what people like about colored diamonds because they are somehow less conspicuous than something that's big and obvious. gerri: you don't think this is con speckous, but it's amazing and beautiful. it's pink. how are they pink? >> what's fascinating about pink diamonds and red diamonds for that matter is that there's no known chemical component so it's really due to a structural anomaly within the stone that happens in the earth, and -- gerri: comes out like this? >> like that, and cut and polished by the master craftsman. gerri: i'm transfixed. you decked me out here too. i've never seen so many diamonds in one place. this is a damond tie. look at this. just beautiful. i can't imagine how much this costs.
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>> quite a few million dollars right there around your neck. gerri: i have a cuff on, a beautiful diamond bracelet on as well. >> that's a few hundred thousands dollars. this neckless, 300karots of indictments alone, 800 stones, spent a year and a half collecting each and every win of the stopes, and nine months crafting it into what we like to call, like you said, a diamond tie. gerri: unbeievably beautiful. you collect the diamonds, working with collectors. how do investors pick the right piece? what are they looking for? first, you want to know who you are buying your diamonds from. now, in terms of colored diamonds -- gerri: thought you said who to buy them for. that's also true. >> it is true. that's a trick question too. with colored diamonds, you want to look forstones with the greatest color saturation in the stone so really, really strong,
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powerful colors. gerri: as we saw. now, looking at dimes not colored, what do you look for? these are absolutely phenomenal. >> you're looking for the exact opposite. you want colorless, def color and flawless or near flawless in terms of clarity. gerri: so gorgeous. you have to wonder if they are real they have so perfect, but they are. >> they are. gerri: a lot of diamonds today. is the market growing? what appreciation can i expect from the class? >> so i can tell you that over the past hundred years, diamonds have only appreciated in value. over the past decade, the average diamond has appreciated 15% per year on average. gerri: 15% per year. no doubt about it, you beat the market with that one, my friend. i mean, stocks did well last year, but not that well. >> exactly. what we do is far from average. these stones, the top tier of colored diamonds and white
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diamonds, they appreciated 100%. that's being conservative. in most cases, stones appreciated almost 200% in value. gerri: i'm imagining myself putting this in my house somewhere. should i keep it der lock and key? how do you care for the ones? >> wear itment i think that's one of the nicest things about investing in diamonds is that it's not only an investment that you keep locked up in a portfolio or in a vault, but it's something with a sentimental element that you can wear, enjoy, that you put on and you feel absolutely beautiful. gerri: they are gorgeous. thank you for coming in tonight. i love the diamonds. absolutely gorgeous. appreciate you bringing them in. >> thank you gerri: you'll notice if i walk away wh this, won't you? >> oh, yes, i will. gerri: thank you so much. >> thank you. gerri: great stuffer. the most expensive diamonds in the world, number five, the diamond worth $100 million. th has nearly 274karots and
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internally and externally flawless giving it the highest grade for a color less gem. number four, host diamond worth $350 million, the largest blue diamond in the world worth more than 45 # karots on displayed at the smithsonian, which is rumored to be cursed. the culinary diamond worth $400 million discovered in south africa in 1905, the largest rough gem famed. it's more than 3100. the fancy diamond, pear shaped yellow diamond said to be priceless. it is 55karots discovered in india in the 15th century, and the number one most expensive diamond is this mountain of light incursion, and it certainly is, considered priceless and 105 karots. this was discovered in india, but it's older, from the 14th
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