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Article: SEC's Cox needs courage--and wisdom.(EDITORIAL)(Securities and Exchange Commission)(Christopher Cox)
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- Chief Executive (U.S.)
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- July 1, 2005
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THE NOMINATION of Rep. Christopher Cox as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission is welcome news. He has an opportunity to turn back the tide of regulatory creep. There will be many crucial issues before him--Sarbanes-Oxley, the expensing of stock options, hedge fund regulation, so-called shareholder democracy proposals and more.
Cox is a big believer in letting markets work. We like that. He needs the courage to do the right things as well as the wisdom not to go too far. We hope he will apply the wisdom of the Coase theorem, named for Nobel Prize winner Ronald Coase, which suggests that government should make a decision, then let the markets go to ...