From: abelard 
Newsgroups: uk.politics.misc uk.finance
Subject: Re: The End of Dollar Hegemony
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:48:11 +0100

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:30:09 +0000 (UTC), usenet@isbd.co.uk  

  typed:
>In uk.finance Crowley  wrote:
>> 
>> Fed Chair Alan Greenspan, on several occasions before the House Banking
>> Committee, answered my challenges to him about his previously held
>> favorable views on gold by claiming that he and other central bankers
>> had gotten paper money - i.e. the dollar system - to respond as if
>> it were gold. Each time I strongly disagreed, and pointed out that if
>> they had achieved such a feat they would have defied centuries of
>> economic history regarding the need for money to be something of real
>> value. He smugly and confidently concurred with this.
>> 
>He what?  This doesn't make sense does it - concurred means agreed.

why do you think it makes no sense....
he agreed he had 'defied centuries of economic history'
    and that this achievement was 'of real value'....

his response would more likely be tongue in cheek (that 'smug')
    on realising he was faced with an idiot

(the original post was more dribble so i didn't bother with it....
    who is the berk who is allegedly questioning the great man?)

regards...

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