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.
Oil spikes, mixed jobs data, and Fed uncertainty complicate the outlook, as David Bahnsen separates short-term volatility from lasting economic trends.
From stable jobless claims to weakening hiring data, the economy shows mixed signs as investors react to oil prices and geopolitical risk. David Bahnsen has this week’s Monday Moneybeat.
Economist David Bahnsen on selective control in the Strait, Washington’s scramble to ease oil pressure, and the overstated comparison between private-credit defaults and the financial crisis of 2008
Shipping fears in the Strait of Hormuz ripple through oil markets as investors quietly rotate away from tech and toward the real economy. David Bahnsen on the Monday Moneybeat
Labor-market weakness meets a geopolitical shock as the Iran war disrupts Persian Gulf shipping and sends oil prices higher. Our conversation with economist David Bahnsen
David Bahnsen on why sanctions without leverage were bound to fail on Iran, what markets are looking for in the Strait of Hormuz, and why both upside and left-tail risks still loom
David Bahnsen on how the Court may have done the White House a favor, what the administration gets wrong about “unchanged” tariff revenue, and what the latest numbers on GDP growth and inflation really show
WORLD economic analyst David Bahnsen on Trump’s move against climate regulation, shelter-driven inflation trends, and the stock-market repricing triggered by AI disruption
WORLD’s David Bahnsen on what the milestone says—and does not say—about the economy, AI’s hundred-billion-dollar spending boom, and the danger of “risk-free” thinking in Washington
David Bahnsen on Kevin Warsh’s vision for a humbler Federal Reserve, Powell’s final months, confidence in jobs and inflation data, and the economic noise that investors can safely ignore
