The mobile telephone business is making nice money for Western firms but also for indigenous hustlers.
He sees himself as one of them, Charlie Hustle in a city of hustlers.
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Yet, that is exactly what has been happening to hustlers in the last decade.
And within this class I am specifically refering to the sub-category known as hustlers today.
The so-called holy trinity of startups a team of hustlers, hackers and designers hasn't been forsaken.
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Liberia has also been a haven for all manner of hustlers, gangsters and terrorists.
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It is a proud, quirky, challenging place, a city of hustlers and of poets, where hard realities and dreams collide every day.
Elsewhere, he tries on attitudes for size: a critique of romantic bourgeois intellectuals here, a slap at U.S. media hustlers there.
For newbies like you, they are the equivalent of carney sideshows: a lot of hustlers using razzle dazzle to hook in rookies.
The charity hustlers are urging investors to buy into complex strategies that often involve irrevocable commitments that play out over a long time.
In large part it was because in the balance of power, hustlers lost their main weapon: specialized and indispensable knowledge of murky emerging markets.
The defendant was not quite like all the others, the hustlers and the hoodlums and the petty and not-so-petty criminals that throng courts the world over.
Hordes of penny-stock hustlers have headed south to the American Stock Exchange, the o-t-c bulletin board and the Pink Sheets since the Vancouver Stock Exchange disappeared in 1999.
Armani-clad hustlers share streets with farmers wearing thick, Soviet-era suits.
Professional investors today find it easier to groom fresh (and cheap) young hustlers by the dozen than to work with battle-scarred veterans of either the startup or corporate scenes.
It is useful to start with the nineteenth century steel industry where a similar emergence of a labor class from an entrepreneurial class happened, with different outcomes for the hustlers and hackers.
This sounds like an unholy alliance of the worst of youth sports parents, the worst of recruiting hustlers, and the worst of pathetic gamblers who bet on preseason basketball and Mid-American Conference games.
Since the newer hustlers needed the infrastructure (for example, hustlers taking advantage of oil, railroads, telegraph and electricity to build businesses in the new booming urban centers), they were at the mercy of the bankers.
The old-school hustlers were left with no leverage at the negotiating table with the owners of capital, while at the same time being at their mercy, instead of at the mercy of Wild West nature.
Perhaps one of the more bizarre scams in Bangkok involves gem hustlers telling tourists that the whole of Chinatown is shut down, in hopes that the more gullible travellers will visit a great little store they know of instead.
Because of their very different risk exposures, compared to hustlers, they end up on a different path that effectively makes them mercenaries rather than entrepreneurs, a path that generally promises smaller jackpots, but better expected outcomes and survivability.
Instead of hustlers telling credulous investors what returns they could expect, investors told hustlers what returns they had to deliver, based on their own analysis of information made freely available by new media outlets working off the power of the telegraph.
In brief, whereas hustlers have gradually been losing their information advantage with respect to investors (resulting in the balance of power collapsing), hackers have generally been gaining information advantage with respect to both, as Internet-era technology has gotten more complex and specialized.
Like his contemporaries in the hustling game, he made something of a specialty of maneuvering around bankers in the world of finance, and found a certain vicious joy in doing it well (frontier hustlers swindling East Coast bankers before the rise of the telegraph was a common occurrence).
Many of his witnesses will be forced under oath to describe the desperate hunt for soft money, the special access given to donors with business before the government and the suspension of White House vetting rules designed to keep hustlers with deep pockets from making pitches on presidential time.
When Britain, the colonial power, left Nigeria, it handed authority not to traditional rulers, who were viewed as having some legitimacy, but to doctors, lawyers and the horde of literate hustlers who did well in the British bureaucracy and the British army and now make up Nigeria's ruling class.
In the second tier, the hustler class of new-money industrialists produced a first generation of Robber Barons, and then an asymmetric balance of power between bankers and second-generation hustlers who aspired to Robber Baron level fortunes (egged on by Horatio Alger narratives), but ended up as the tame new middle class.
In terms preferred by economists, a situation defined by a principal-agent problem (such as you hiring a doctor or car mechanic who gets to both define your problem and figure out what to charge you for fixing it) was replaced by a much simpler employment relationship: would-be hustlers found themselves being turned into professional, generalist managers.
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