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John Berlau, Director, Center for Entrepreneurship
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John Berlau is director of the Center for Investors and Entrepreneurs at CEI.
Berlau has written about the impact of public policy on entrepreneurship for many publications including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Investor's Business Daily, and National Review. He has been the guest on many radio and television programs including MSNBC's "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson and CNBC's "Street Signs" with Ron Insana, and the Your World with Neil Cavuto on Fox News.
Berlau previously was Washington correspondent for Investor's Business Daily and a staff writer for Insight magazine, published by The Washington Times. In 2002, he recevied Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism from Washington's National Press Club . He was a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2003.
Berlau graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1994 with degrees in journalism and economics.
He is the author of the newly published book Eco-Freaks: (Nelson Current, 2006), which has been in Amazon's top 100 best-selling non-fiction books.
June 17, 2009 06:33 PM
Early on in the Obama administration, there were encouraging signs that his economic team was pursuing true regulatory reform and modernization, consolidating and combining functions of key financial agencies and moving away from the "more is better" approach to regulation that had been followed even in some Republican administration in response to a crisis. Even this week, administration officials Tim Geithner and Larry Summers wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that the current "framework for financial regulation" contains "jurisdictional overlaps, and suffers from an outdated conception of financial risk. Initial reports indicate, however, that these early hopes of a more…
Read moreJanuary 12, 2009 09:37 AM
John Berlau, Director, Center for Investors and Entrepreneurs, Competitive Enterprise Institute Overlooked in the debate about stimulus – amid all the talk about spending and tax cuts – is a crucial aspect of getting the economy growing again. This is, the mechanism of financing for entrepreneurs and the public policy incentives and impediments surrounding it. Entrepreneurial firms – those with innovative ideas for new products and technologies – are the ones that will create the new jobs, whether they are blue-collar or white-collar, high tech or “green tech.” But no matter what kind of business an up-and-coming firm…
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