Katy Delay is a freelance commentator and amateur cartoonist in economics. Having grown up literally in the institute of her father, economist Edward C. Harwood, Katy absorbed a great deal about the dismal science; yet she also sympathized with a public lulled to sleep at the simultaneous utterance of the two most boring words in the English language, "economic" and "research." After getting her degree from Mount Holyoke College and spending the next 30 years taking her American heritage for granted over five continents, she came to appreciate the significance of her father's lifework, and to realize, this time through personal experience, that the degree of freedom and opportunity we are supposed to ...More have in this country is unique, and just as fragile as her father had warned. In 2004, various websites and newspapers such as Mises.Org, PrudentBear.com, and the Los Angeles Business Journal began to publish her articles. In 2005, she started a blog with the byline: "Proving that economics and a sense of humor are not mutually exclusive." Presently, she is writing a biography of her father, founder of the American Institute for Economic Research, of which she is a voting member. Visit Katy's blog: Sybil's Star (http://www.sybilstar.blogspot.com)