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John Berlau is Senior Fellow for Finance and Access to Capital in the Center for Economic Freedom at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Berlau has written about the impact of public policy on entrepreneurship and the investing public for many publications including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, Politico, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Examiner, Investor's Business Daily, National Journal, National Review, Daily Caller, American Spectator, and Reason. He has been cited or quoted in The New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, Bloomberg, and Financial Times.  He is a frequent guest on many radio and television programs including CNBC's "The Call," "Power Lunch" and "Closing Bell," Fox News' "Fox & Friends" and "Your World with Neil Cavuto," and Fox Business' "Cavuto" and "Willis Report."

Berlau's previously was an award-winning financial and political journalist. He served as Washington correspondent for Investor's Business Daily and as a staff writer for Insight magazine, published by The Washington Times. In 2002, he received 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 book Eco-Freaks (Nelson Current, 2006), which has been in Amazon's top 100 best-selling non-fiction books.