Melanie Sturm writes a bi-monthly column called Think Again for the Aspen Times. She uses her background in finance, banking, and economics to "myth-bust" and counter conventional wisdom while arguing for free enterprise and other core American values.  Melanie has 15 years of private equity investment experience previous to which she specialized in project finance at International Finance Corporation (the private sector affiliate of the World Bank), and Mergers & Acquisitions at Morgan Stanley (London) and Drexel Burnham Lambert (New York). Melanie has an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and undergraduate degrees in international relations and economics from Tufts University.