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Title: The New Yorker: Steve Jobs, Charles Ponzi and the American hustle Post by: HCK on January 20, 2014, 02:00:06 pm The New Yorker: Steve Jobs, Charles Ponzi and the American hustle
The U.S. economy was built, writes James Surowiecki, on hope and hype. <p>FORTUNE -- Americans have a soft spot for con artists -- those greedy hucksters whose dreams never come true. So writes The New Yorker's James Surowiecki in an essay that starts with two Oscar-nominated movies -- American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street -- and ends with Steve Jobs.</p> <p>There's a thin line, he argues, between con men and entrepreneurs. MORE (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/01/18/apple-con-men-jobs/)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tech.fortune.cnn.com&blog=8466345&post=131780&subd=fortunebrainstormtech&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~4/ClpLh-tYxa4" height="1" width="1"/> Source: The New Yorker: Steve Jobs, Charles Ponzi and the American hustle (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~3/ClpLh-tYxa4/http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/01/18/apple-con-men-jobs/#commentshttp://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/01/18/apple-con-men-jobs/feed/atom/) |