John Berlau is director of the Center for Entrepreneurship 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 op-eds & articles
Maybe the Banks Are Just Counting Wrong
By John Berlau, September 20, 2008
Minot Line
By John Berlau, Alex Harris, September 4, 2008
Oil Speculators ‘R’ Us
By John Berlau, August 21, 2008
Sarbanes-Oxley Challenge Is Rooted in Law’s Flaw
By John Berlau, August 14, 2008
Bailing Out Kelo
By John Berlau, July 25, 2008
recent studies
A Flawed Blueprint
By Eli Lehrer, John Berlau, April 10, 2008
SOXing It to the Little Guy
By John Berlau, June 7, 2007
news release
Stimulus Package Not the Path to Economic Recovery
By John Berlau, February 13, 2008
Statement on the Hedge Fund Decision of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
By John Berlau, June 23, 2006
Statement on the Enron Verdict and Sarbanes-Oxley
By John Berlau, May 26, 2006
CEI Calls For Repeal of Sarbanes-Oxley
By John Berlau, April 13, 2005
recent citations
John Berlau on SEC accounting regulations
Canada Free Press, Oct. 1, 2008
John Berlau on the elimination of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
California Real Estate Journal, Sep. 29, 2008
John Berlau on the federal housing bailout
Investor's Business Daily, Sep. 16, 2008
John Berlau on Reluctance in the senate to back housing bill finger printing provision
news.com, Jun. 28, 2008
John Berlau on Housing Bill and Fingerprint Registry Set Back in Senate
The Iconoclast, Jun. 26, 2008
