Links for 2012-02-29

• Incentives doublethink - Chris Dillow
• Four Fiscal Phonies - Paul Krugman
• Preventive macroprudential policy - Vox EU
• Inventing A Conundrum - Paul Krugman
• Stimulus Options Were Few - NYTimes.com
• Wall Street was never on your side - Abnormal Returns
• Fed’s Duke: Much Less Lending if Fannie, Freddie Closed - WSJ
• You just want to redistribute income! - The Incidental Economist
• University admissions and "social engineering" - Jonathan Portes
• More on Potential GDP and the Output Gap - Econbrowser
• Seminar on David Graeber’s Debt - Crooked Timber