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.
Who relies on consumer-confidence surveys? “Journalists,” says David Bahnsen. For him, what consumers do is more important than what they say.
A money manager who made billions going against the crowd now joins the AI investment rush. David Bahnsen explains why following others can feel safe.
David Bahnsen on Big Tech’s borrowing binge and why diesel remains scarce even as crude oil starts moving again
David Bahnsen looks beyond the weak September jobs report headline and finds better news “under the hood.”
David Bahnsen explains why housing affordability now depends more on lower home prices, not lower mortgage rates. Also: why restricting diesel exports would backfire, and how AI’s power demands are strengthening the case for more energy infrastructure.
David Bahnsen explains why the Fed’s rate hike mostly followed a market that had already tightened
David Bahnsen on Vance’s $9,000 benefit for married families, Trump’s $5,000 dividend, and what 9/11 teaches investors about resilience.
David Bahnsen on August’s jobs numbers, why AI’s massive build-out ultimately depends on businesses turning the technology into real profits, and, for Labor Day, why productive work is rooted in the imago Dei.
David Bahnsen parses Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech—touching on forward guidance, labor markets, and the Fed’s responsibility for inflation
With the national debt topping $40 trillion, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tried to talk long-term borrowing costs lower. David Bahnsen explains why the bond market didn’t go along, what the debt milestone does—and doesn’t—mean, and what Fed chair Kevin Warsh may signal at Jackson Hole.
