Mark A. Pribonic

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04/04/2007 Mises Daily Mark A. Pribonic

Mark Pribonic decided to take an excursion to a place in American history, Promontory Summit, Utah. It is literally in no-man’s-land of the western plains. This isolated spot on the map is the place where the railroads of the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific met, completing the transcontinental rail line. What was to be a walkthrough American history trivia turned out to be an economic lesson in the absurdity of government subsidies.

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