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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.

Recent Responses

September 28, 2010 11:53 AM

RE: How Would GOP's 'Pledge' Affect Economy?

Pledge Takes On Overregulation Though much of the commentary on the GOP's "Pledge to America" has forcused on the areas of taxes and spending, the provision that may contain the most important economic impact could be document's promise to rein in regulation. The pledge contains a specific and important policy proposal that would go a long way toward reining in the regulatory state and restoring constitutional, accountable government. It is along the lines of recommendations we at the Competitive Enterprise Institute have made in our publications such as the biannual Agenda for Congress and annual Ten Thousand Commandments by… Read more

April 7, 2010 03:15 AM

RE: The Immigration Issue Returns

I Got People Too Like John, I "got people" too. Here is a summary of points made in response to the question by my Competitive Enteprise Institute colleague, policy analyst Alex Nowrasteh. The immigration policy debate mostly concerns issues of economic protectionism and issues concerning the rule of law. On the first issue, the body politic has an anti-foreign bias. This doesn’t mean that people hate foreigners, it’s just that many see the economy as a zero-sum gain so trade, and immigration is immediately suspect in their minds. In the minds of most Americans, immigration automatically means lower wages and… Read more