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h4nkoslo | 9 years ago

The flip side of strong ethnic ties and ingroup preferences enabling fraud, is that they make it possible for, eg, Hasids to conduct an extemely high-value diamond trade on a handshake basis internally. https://www.algemeiner.com/2014/05/21/new-yorks-diamond-dist...

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gaius|9 years ago

I don't think that's true; traders in the stock markets with no racial or familial ties regularly make such deals, especially in the days of open outcry markets.

fjdlwlv|9 years ago

Considering how unethical everything about the diamond business is, I don't see how this makes your point.