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 rejects the claim that young people are inheriting a broken future, weighs the promise and disruption of AI, and calls graduates to a life of building, not destroying.
Moneybeat: David Bahnsen on the trillions steered by climate-change alarmism, the opportunities lost to misallocated capital, and why the Fed’s intellectual framework matters as much as its independence.
Moneybeat: David Bahnsen on what rising bond yields may really be signaling, how data centers are running into NIMBY resistance, and why even a futuristic SpaceX IPO still runs on old-fashioned market mechanics.
Monday Moneybeat: David Bahnsen weighs the economic meaning of the Trump-Xi summit, the quiet retreat from “decoupling” China, and why investors suddenly see fewer Fed rate cuts ahead.
Monday Moneybeat: David Bahnsen on encouraging labor data, tariff refunds flowing back to businesses, and why Rupert Murdoch’s Disney deal now looks like one of the savviest media bets of the streaming era.
Spirit Airlines shuts down two years after a blocked merger, a government intervention that may have guaranteed the outcome the market tried to prevent. WORLD’s Monday Moneybeat with economist David Bahnsen.
Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani targets a hedge-fund power player who answers back, as the path clears for a new Fed chairman and an SPLC indictment exposes the risks of taking cues from the group. David Bahnsen analyzes the stakes on this week’s Moneybeat.
Markets pushed oil prices lower as supply fears eased, but stopped short of earlier levels—while debates over AI show how disruption can be misread as destruction. Monday Moneybeat: our conversation with economist David Bahnsen.
Monday Moneybeat: Oil prices, inflation, and geopolitical risk are driving volatility, but markets may be betting more on how the conflict ends than on the final outcome. Our conversation with economist David Bahnsen.
David L. Bahnsen | We’ll still have plenty of jobs with AI, but will laws on the books still have teeth?
