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 supply and demand—not politics—driving affordability, the Fed’s shift toward easing, how price discovery really works, and the kind of leadership that keeps first principles first
David Bahnsen on the Trump–Mamdani “buddy movie,” the trillion-dollar weight-loss boom, and why jobs, GDP, and housing are pulling left and right toward the same bad solutions
David Bahnsen on the shutdown’s negligible macro drag, AI’s $100 billion build-out, why near-term profits remain elusive, and how to tell productive booms from scarcity bubbles
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David Bahnsen on New York’s experiment with socialism, the uneasy détente with China, and a labor market stuck in low-hire, low-fire limbo
David Bahnsen on Trump’s trade pause with China, Powell’s signal that rate cuts may pause too, and the shutdown showdown testing Washington’s limits
David Bahnsen on tariff drama with Canada, shutdown fatigue in Washington, the Fed’s reflex to cut rates, and a pardon that’s hard even for friends to defend
David Bahnsen on how to see AI clearly, prepare wisely, and raise a generation that understands what technology is—and what it isn’t
David Bahnsen on the rare-earth showdown with China, the widening fiscal gap in Washington, and how Trump’s mass firings test the limits of executive power
David Bahnsen on political brinkmanship in Washington, labor data turning south, and the money-manager debate over whether AI builds capital or burns it
