> 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.