Tuesday assorted links

1. Markets in everything: “installed in Czech bar…”

2. Job openings at record high.  And new job openings for social science and economics at Arizona State.  And a new job opening at Stanford.

3. Chess-playing computer with an entirely new method of learning, and more here.  It is International Master strength (for now).

4. Why Haitian coffee is hard to find.

5. Why do birds fall in love?

6. Raise rates by an eighth of a percentage point?  Ha-ha.  And Scott Sumner is optimistic about Chinese retail.