Episode 146: Rising Gold Prices, Tariff Questions

The Jewelry District

JCK

Fashion & Beauty, Business News, Business, Arts, News

9.9 • 25 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

JCK editor-in-chief Victoria Gomelsky and news director Rob Bates explore the ramifications of the staggering rise in gold prices and share a strategy jewelers can use to offer gold at more palatable prices. (Hint: Think vintage.) Next, the conversation turns to tariffs. What’s ahead? What’s the best way to navigate it? Jewelers learned to pivot during the pandemic, and that agility will help them weather today’s volatile times, Rob and Victoria predict. They wrap up the conversation with a preview of what to expect when JCK Las Vegas kicks off in June.Presenting sponsor: IGI (igi.org/education)Sponsor: Nivoda (nivoda.com)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jewelry District, a podcast by J.C.K. brought to you by IGII, the International Gemological Institute.
0:18.0	Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gamalski talk about how different
0:21.6	areas of the jewelry industry are dealing with rising gold prices and tariffs.
0:25.6	Hey everyone, welcome to the jewelry district. This is Victoria Gamelski, editor-in-chief
0:35.6	of JCPK and JCP Online.com, calling in from Los Angeles, and I'm with.
0:41.4	Rob Bates, news director of J-CK and J-CK Online.com, calling in from New York City, which is very pleasant now.
0:49.5	It's very pleasant temperatures.
0:51.1	Not the same as L.A., but nice.
0:52.8	Yes, today is indeed pleasant in L.A.
0:55.0	I get a lot of people who email me all the time saying, hope you're enjoying this lovely weather.
0:58.9	And I'm like, if it's raining here in L.A., which, you know, occasionally happens.
1:03.3	Yes, it's.
1:04.0	I think, don't you? I mean, I think most people still very much think I'm in New York and because I get invited to, you know, New York things and I get
1:11.1	comments on New York weather and all the emails I ever get. So sadly, I have to report back. I don't
1:16.9	know what lovely weather you're talking about unless it's my lovely weather in which case. Yes,
1:20.9	unless the lovely weather we have, you have every day. Every day. Speaking of lovely weather,
1:26.2	you know where I'm headed by the time people are listening to this.
1:29.3	I will have been there and already left, but I'm heading to Miami on Friday for Formula One
1:36.0	weekend.
1:37.1	And I was just telling Natalie our producer right before we started taping, how I have been to Formula
1:42.4	1 before.
1:43.3	I went to the Grand Prix in
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