Admit it. There's some part of you that wonders whether or not Chris Cox's anti-naked shorting emergency order wasn't an attempt to prove that he and his agency were not an irrelevant or superfluous sideshow to the Ben Bernanke-Hank Paulson...

SEC chair Christopher Cox missed the 5am conference call when Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson decided that the Fed would lend funds to rescue Bear Stearns from bankruptcy, the Wall Street Journal reports on today's front page. The call's time...