Real Estate? Check (here and here) Home appliances? Check (here) and now diamonds as per Antoine Saliba. All these are pretexts to release your lollars from the bank, to protect your investment and to baically find a way out of the current banking-financial mess. Well, whereas these ideas seemed outrageous in the past, these days if they involve taking the money out of the bank and investing it anyhere else (no matter the depreciation!) suddenly they look logical. Appealing even. The problem with a diamond ring is that usually it brings a wife with it, then a family, so that sort of increases spending.