The Daily Signal
The goal of Operation Choke Point, dubbed that and designed by the Justice Department under Obama’s first attorney general, Eric Holder, was to choke out of the banking system entire industries that the Obama administration didn’t like.

MJSA
If companies can now begin making and selling 1k jewelry and calling it gold, what will this do to the intrinsic value that consumers have traditionally ascribed to karat gold? 

American Banker
The notion that Google, Amazon and Facebook will disrupt small-business lending has taken root in the media lately. 

Reuters
Anglo American unit De Beers is going after lucrative, but elusive high-tech markets in quantum computing, as it aims to expand its lab-grown diamond business beyond drilling and cutting.

TV6
Legislation passed in Michigan by Gov. Rick Snyder includes HB 5181, sponsored by state Rep. Diana Farrington, which expands opportunities for financial institutions or other lienholders, who have a documented financial interest, to redeem a vehicle that has been declared abandoned.  

MSN
You guessed right: a thief heisted the machine for $13,000 worth of fancy baubles with the help of a bogus credit cards.

National Jeweler
Intellectual property and loads of engagement rings, wedding bands and other diamond jewelry made by Nirav Modi’s former companies have been sold.