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David L. Bahnsen

David L. Bahnsen

David is the founder, managing partner, and chief investment officer of The Bahnsen Group, a national private wealth management firm. He is consistently named one of the top financial advisers in America by Barron’s, Forbes, and the Financial Times. He is a frequent guest on Fox News, Fox Business, CNBC, and Bloomberg and is a regular contributor to National Review and WORLD. He appears weekly on The World and Everything in It discussing the week’s economic and market news. He is the author of several bestselling books including Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It (2018), The Case for Dividend Growth: Investing in a Post-Crisis World (2019), and There’s No Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths (2021). David’s newest book, Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life, was released in February 2024.


Articles by David L. Bahnsen
Moneybeat: Shutdown and startup

Moneybeat: Shutdown and startup

David Bahnsen on political brinkmanship in Washington, labor data turning south, and the money-manager debate over whether AI builds capital or burns it

David Bahnsen on millions of men choosing idleness, the policy blind spots that encourage it, and why restoring the dignity of work is both an economic and cultural imperative

David Bahnsen on the Fed’s interest-rate cut toward neutral, political battles inside the Fed, and whether jobs or housing pose the bigger threat to growth

David Bahnsen explains why jihadists despised U.S. capital markets, why Americans should prize them, and how shocks reveal their strength


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David Bahnsen reads between the lines of a stalled labor market, Fed cut expectations, and weighs whether the risk-reward engine of the American free-enterprise system is still firing

David Bahnsen parses a court ruling on tariffs, the White House’s Intel stake, Trump’s showdown with Fed governor Lisa Cook, and why work itself is a divine calling

David Bahnsen on Powell’s rate-cut hints, the central bank’s appetite for ever-bolder experiments, who’s really in the running to replace him—and how you can reserve your seat to meet David in person in Houston, September 15!

David Bahnsen on what’s really driving higher prices, why subsidies matter, and how housing distorts the big picture

David Bahnsen on the new Fed nominee, the jobs data credibility clash, and shifting North American trade alliances

David Bahnsen on the White House’s shifting trade strategy, a lackluster July jobs report, what really drove the latest GDP numbers, and whether there’s a sweet spot on tariff levels