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September 1, 2012 5:43AM 

# Some Links (One Golden) 

By [George Selgin](https://www.cato.org/people/george-selgin) 

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1\. With all the recent talk, much of it poorly informed, about the gold standard, I decided to post on SSRN a draft of my paper, [“The Rise and Fall of the Gold Standard in the United States,” ](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2139115)written for an upcoming Hillsdale College Forum.

2\. I’m asked, “[What is Free Banking?](http://newmedia.ufm.edu/gsm/index.php/Selginfreebanking?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feedsufmpage+%28feedsufmpage%29),” among other things, at an interview conducted at Guatemala’s Francisco Marroquin University in the course of a celebration there last month of Milton Friedman’s 100th birthday.

3\. “Has the Fed Been a Failure?,” in which Bill Lastrapes, Larry White and I *do not* find much reason to celebrate the approach of the Fed’s 100th birthday, has been published online by the *[Journal of Macroeconomics](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164070412000304)* (full view requires subscription).

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