Harvard professor to ‘hack’ politics with White House run

Harvard professor to ‘hack’ politics with White House run

Written by Julie Bykowicz

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Harvard law professor wants to "hack" the political system by running for president.

Is America the next Greece?
economy

Is America the next Greece?

Stephen Moore

I'm asked every day if America is the next Greece or Detroit or Puerto Rico — and the answer is an unequivocal no. The U.S. economy — especially the private sector — is structurally very healthy. That wasn't the case on the eve of the great financial meltdown of 2008 when American companies and households were leveraged up to their eyebrows.

What's different today from eight years ago is that now it's the government that's in the fiscal intensive care unit while companies and households have rebooted.

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