Wednesday assorted links

1. Cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes.

2. No Coase theorem: “Opinion polls show more than 50 per cent of Greeks oppose the June deal because the government controversially accepted the existence of Macedonian ethnicity and language in return for the change of name.”  FT link.

3. Chocolate is older than we had thought.

4. The world’s Scrabble champion in French cannot speak French (NYT).

5. “A Russian scientist working in Antarctica is facing attempted murder charges after allegedly stabbing a colleague for telling him the endings of books he wanted to read.”

6. David Card vs. Peter S. Arcidiacono.  Good piece, Card is wrong.

7. MRU Halloween video.