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 Supreme Court’s leaving markets in tariff limbo, the economic price of undermining Fed independence, and what Davos revealed about the global economy
The race for the next Fed chair narrows, Jay Powell makes a rare counterpunch, and why voters feel poorer than the data suggest
David L. Bahnsen | We have a house affordability problem, but don’t blame institutional investors
David Bahnsen on banning institutional homebuyers and how Washington keeps pursuing demand fixes for supply problems
David Bahnsen on the economic stakes of Maduro’s capture
David Bahnsen on a better-than-expected 3rd Quarter GDP report, slowing annual growth, the limits of tariff-era data, and what really mattered in 2025
The first in The WORLD Stage speakers’ series: David Bahnsen on vocation as creational calling, the moral malady behind missing men, and the church’s obligation to speak plainly about work, dignity, and purpose
David Bahnsen on shaky inflation and jobs data, the limits of economic policy, and what the last 25 years reveal about how markets absorb instability
David Bahnsen on Powell’s policy pivot, the meaning of “near neutral,” the reopened succession race, and the risks of flawed models
David Bahnsen on Michael Dell—the entrepreneur behind the iconic computer brand—and his family’s $6 billion philanthropy, Netflix’s leveraged swing at Warner, the implications of a Hassett-led Fed, the measurable harms of remote work, and the real cost of raising a family
