links for 2008-04-29 Felix Salmon: Did Hedge Funds Help Stabilize the Mortgage Market? Matthew Yglesias: Today in Book Promotion: Ilya Goldenberg Matthew Yglesias on the Incompetent Mendacity of the American Press Corps James Fallows on the Incompetent Mendacity of the American Press Corps Ilya Goldenberg: My Head on the Sand Matthew Yglesias: Yet More Press Budget Idiocy New York Times Reporters: Too Stupid to Be Allowed to Write Menzie Chinn: Let's Think Long and Hard about [Not] Extending Those Bush Tax Cuts Lawrence Summers: America needs to make a new case for trade