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.
David Bahnsen on the populist right and the socialist left’s shared distrust of markets, legal risk and the sale of abortion drugs, and Wall Street’s retreat from the climate agenda.
Wages have technically outpaced prices, but financial analyst David Bahnsen says that statistic hides a messier reality for young people as high housing costs, thin job experience and more all play a part. WORLD's Lauren Smyth talks with Bahnsen about what the data leaves out, and why he still sees more good news than bad.
David Bahnsen on Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh’s case for holding rates steady while markets, why fewer Fed meetings could reduce speculation, and what AI-heavy imports obscure about growth.
David Bahnsen shows how the components of the 10-year Treasury yield offer a read on the economy’s underlying strength, and then he assesses the Trump tariff reset and the labor market.
David Bahnsen on why “invested in AI” is the wrong question, what stubborn long-term unemployment does—and doesn’t—signal, and America’s surprising entrepreneurial revival.
David Bahnsen on Congress’s attempt to boost housing supply, whether government-funded investment accounts strengthen an ownership society, and why stronger families—not bigger government—provide the real foundation for free markets.
President Trump’s financial dealings may be legal, but David Bahnsen argues the appearance of conflict erodes public trust. Also: Able-bodied men leave the workforce, and a trade strategy works against itself.
Moneybeat: As America celebrates its 250th, David Bahnsen makes the case that economic freedom is central to the American experiment—and to the prosperity that followed.
David Bahnsen on Kevin Warsh’s first meeting as Fed chairman, his effort to shift markets back toward economic fundamentals, and why productivity-led growth is “something we embrace.”
Moneybeat: Economist David Bahnsen on Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar milestone and why efforts to prevent the next trillionaire would also make it harder to create the next breakthrough company.
