John Berlau, former fellow in Economic Policy, is the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. A former Washington correspondent for Investor’s Business Daily and investigative writer on the staff of Insight magazine, Berlau has also been a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and has written for such publications as Reader’s Digest, USA Today, USA Weekend, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, Reason, the New Republic, National Review, the Weekly Standard, and RAZOR. In 2002, Berlau was awarded the Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism by the National Press Club. He lives in the Washington, DC area.