Hong Kong’s Babes in the Woods

It’s hard not to feel a strange mixture of giddiness and sympathy in relation to Hong Kong's connection to the newest Wall Street trading scandal. The Hong Kong couple accused of making millions off inside knowledge of Rupert Murdoch’s US$60-a-share takeover bid for Dow Jones Corp, seem, in some ways, just plain lucky.

The giddiness is like: wow. We are …