Melissa Francis of Fox Business grew up a free-market conservative in Los Angeles.  As told in her 2012 book Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter, her engineer father tucked her into bed the night the family gathered to watch her first appearance on Little House on the Prairie. "Yes, you can be the first lady president. Or whatever you want. Whatever makes you happy. That's what is so great about our country. It's a free society with a free market … "Someday I will tell you about Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations[.] … [I]t's about the Invisible Hand." Missy Francis worked from age one through high school as an actress.  At Harvard College, she earned $25 an hour as a tech assistant at the business school, but not before making do with a food prep job in the kitchen beneath Eliot House.  She never worked less than 40 hours a week her junior and senior years.  Chopping veggies and teaching MBA kids about the...(Read Full Article)