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.
Plus, analyzing inflation data, discussing a $355 million judgment against Donald Trump, and defining “Japanification”
Plus, America’s new top trading partner and defining “Forex”
Plus, defining the “fed funds rate”
Plus, the Biden administration makes a bad call on liquefied natural gas and defining the Phillips Curve
The economic change Argentinian President Javier Milei promised at Davos will take time to bring about
Fitch downgrades the U.S. credit rating. Plus, the July jobs report and encouraging corporate earnings
How does the interest rate impact national debt? And why are there so many economic theories of how economics should be done?
Is it a systemic problem or just one bad apple?
David L. Bahnsen | What are the political and economic realities?