Last weekend’s horrific terrorist attack in Orlando dominated the headlines this week, another example of how government can’t be trusted to keep us safe. Predictably, politicians shamelessly jumped on the tragedy to try to curtail gun rights, ignoring the fact that homicides are at a 51-year low.

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve shocked no one by backing off prior pledges to raise interest rates. In spite of recent attempts to paint a rosy economic picture, the Fed was forced to admit the jobs data is worsening and sees no way to raise rates without tanking the economy. Meanwhile, in light of next week’s Brexit vote, the Bank of England is trying to scare voters away from leaving the un-European EU.

Mises Weekends focuses on next week’s Brexit vote, as Jeff was joined by Godfrey Bloom, a former British MEP. The wonderfully un-PC Bloom, who famously once quoted Murray Rothbard in the halls of the European parliament, offers his unique perspective on next week’s vote. He and Jeff discuss the odds of whether the "leave" campaign will be successful, whether the ECB's failure to prevent sovereign debt crises in Europe influences the vote, and whether Brexit would cause actual eurozone countries to follow suit.

And in case you missed any of them, here are the articles featured this week on the Mises Wire [1]:

• Elizabeth Warren’s War on the Poor [2] by Patrick Trombly
• A Common Central Bank Tool: Fear Mongering [3] by Tho Bishop
• The Fed Pours Water on the Job-Growth Hype [4] by Ryan McMaken
• Concerned About Job Growth, the Fed Backs Off Raising Rates [5] by Paul-Martin Foss
• Tax Breaks Don’t Hurt Video Games, Intellectual Property Does [6] by Matthew McCaffrey
• Higher Education's Academic Monoculture [7] by Loyd S. Pettegrew and Carol A. Vance
• FBI: US Homicide Rate at 51-Year Low [8] by Ryan McMaken
• How Minority Groups Really Advance [9] by Ryan McMaken and Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
• Central Bankers Are Wrong About Inflation and Deflation [10] by Frank Shostak
• The 9 Best Quotes Against Intellectual Property [11] by Louis Rouanet
• Charity Needs Markets [12] by Jörg Guido Hülsmann
• USDA: People Make the Choice to Eat Unhealthy Food [13] by Ryan McMaken
• Property Rights and "Human Rights" [14] by Murray N. Rothbard
• The FBI and NSA Won't Keep Us Safe [15] by Ryan McMaken
• The Keynesian Blessing: Americans Are Broke [16] by William L. Anderson
• 1916: The Breaking Point [17] by Hunt Tooley

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