Also commanding a powerful price was a 10-carat, D color, internally flawless pear-shaped diamond flanked on either side by a pear-shaped diamond, each weighing approximately 1.02 carats.
Think of how powerful and commanding the Wizard of Oz was to Dorothy and her gang when all they could do was focus on his image and his powerful voice.
This is the last stand of 20th-century statism, the idea that free-market economies are inherently unstable and thus must be guided or even dominated from the commanding heights of a powerful government.