Description: Rum and politics have made a fiery mix since America’s earliest days, when a young politician named George Washington won election to the House of Burgesses in colonial Virginia with the help of spiked punch at the polls.
Source: NYTimes.com
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Date: 10/15/2010
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/business/16rum.html?ref=business
Questions for discussion:
- What does this report have to say about the relationship between governments and businesses?
- Are there winners and losers in this situation?
- What should the governments and businesses involved do?
- Does this situation affect investors?
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