There’s No Such Thing as an “American” Homicide Rate
In September, the FBI released new homicide data, and the overall US homicide rate rose for the second year to an eight-year high.
According to the report, the nationwide homicide rate in the US in 2016 was 5.3 per 100,000, up from 2015’s rate of 4.9.
The homicide rate in 2014 — 4.4 per 100,000 — had been a 51-year low, and comparable to rates not seen since the 1950s.
Mark Thornton Explains Why We Must End Heroin Prohibition
“Mark Thornton returns to the Scott Horton show to discuss his latest articles for the Mises Institute “The Real Cause of America’s Opioid Epidemic” and “Big Pharma Makes Drugs that Please Regulators, Not Customers.” Thornton makes the case for why legalizing heroin—and all drugs—would be a major step towards solving the opioid crisis.
California Gold and Clay’s Compromise
Money-Supply Growth Falls Yet Again, Dropping to 116-Month Low
Growth in the supply of US dollars fell again in September, this time to a 116-month low of 3.4 percent. The last time the money supply grew at a smaller rate was during January 2008 — also at a rate of 3.4 percent.
Symposium on New and Alternative Media with Ron Paul
Disaster in Red: The Hundredth Anniversary of the Russian Socialist Revolution
November 7, 2017, marks the one hundredth anniversary of the Russian (or Bolshevik) Revolution in Russia that happened on that date in November 1917, which lead to the communist “dictatorship of the proletariat” and ushered in an epoch of totalitarian tyranny and mass murder both in Russia and in every other country where socialism was put into practice.
13. World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals
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12. War Collectivism in World War I
More than any other single period, World War I was the critical watershed for the American business system.* It was a “war collectivism,” a totally planned economy run largely by big-business interests through the instrumentality of the central government, which served as the model, the precedent, and the inspiration for state-corporate capitalism for the remainde
