The Toll Booth Returns

This post The Toll Booth Returns appeared first on Daily Reckoning. One of my favorite things about driving through the Italian Alps is seeing all the medieval castles on the cliffs. Their ornate, haunting beauty lurks menacingly above the smooth new EU-sponsored highways that run along the valleys. Why were they built there? For centuries, the main source of revenue for the Lombards, the Savoy family, [] The post The Toll Booth Returns appeared first on Daily Reckoning.