Famous Charlatans
Charles Ponzi: 1920 Scammed investors of $15-$20 million dollars, which
is equivalent to about $222 million dollars today.
Ponzi scammed investors with international reply coupons, which...
Beware the Charlatans: Get rich quick schemes
Why do people fall for get rich quick schemes? Tatiana von Recklinghausen checks out the world of scams and con artists.
Money from everybody: crowdfunding
The world is full of people who have good ideas but no money. Crowdfunding is putting money behind those ideas in ways that are changing how we do business, finance, humanitarian aid, and more.
The world is your company: crowdsourcing
In the infinitely connected world we live in today, crowdsourcing has become a premier way of building knowledge and making money. The Charlatan's Emma Konrad takes us on a tour of this massively influential development.
A long hard look at the porn industry
Sex sells. Many advertisers and television producers subscribe to this notion, but there is an entire industry based on the idea that seemingly flies under the radar: the adult entertainment industry, or, to put it more plainly, the porn industry.
