> Does this ring true to anyone else Not to me, and that jumped out at me as the most bizarre part of the story. I have a lot more of an economics background

> Does this ring true to anyone else Not to me, and that jumped out at me as the most bizarre part of the story. I have a lot more of an economics background than "having read some Paul Krugman articles", but I'd think that this was obviously a scam because there's no way in hell that that anyone in the world would think I should be judging a competition on economics.