Links for 2012-02-19

• Motor Vehicle Output and Sales, Three Years after the Deluge - Econbrowser
• China Takes New Step to Prime Its Slowing Economy - NYTimes.com
• How can European banks learn from the US? - Vox EU
• Keynes vs Modern Macroeconomics - Angry Bear
• Austerity and Growth - Paul Krugman
• Gay Marriage Debate Is About Money, Too - Richard Thaler
• More on the Output Gap - Modeled Behavior
• Policy errors like 2010 austerity – what can academics do? - mainly macro
• Early Contributions to Training in Econometrics at the USDA - Dave Giles
• Output gaps, inflation and totally awesome blogosphere debates - John Barrdear
• To: John Cochrane, Re: Positional Externalites - Richard H. Serlin
• Payroll tax cut undermines Social Security's security - latimes.com
• Does economic blogging matter?? Part one - Dan Crawford
• Surge in temp jobs reflects change in workplace - Washington Post