[LuisDeQuiros]

If Bush is re-elected we will have an opportunity--perhaps fleeting--to make permanent long-term changes that will create millions more investors and stock owners. If we succeed, we'll owe it to W bringing up controversial pro-investor policies during the campaign.

[Grampa Dave]

Nothing is permanent.

However if we Mondale Kerry today and take out Da$$hole and a few other key rat senators, the pro investment laws that GW enabled can be extended.

[Moonman62]

But Bush put his vision of the ownership society — personal retirement accounts, health savings accounts, lifetime savings accounts — front and center of his campaign, to visible results: Bush picked up a net 16 points among all investors in the month of August, according to Zogby’s post-convention poll.

I really hope GWB follows through with his Ownership Society. It has a nice ring to it and it's the right thing to do. His New Tone in Washington has been nothing but a rehash of the New Deal and Great Society. Yuck!

[Moonman62]

Thanks to President Richard Nixon’s unleashing of the Great Inflation in the 1970s, ...

Nixon didn't have much of a choice. The Bretton Woods system was a disaster waiting to happen and it was clearly broken by reckless government spending. The worst thing that Nixon did that caused inflation was price controls, but the currency crisis he couldn't control was the main factor.

Some of the knuckleheads at NRO think Nixon should have maintained some artificial gold standard that would have artificially inflated the value of the dollar.