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David Bahnsen
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BIOGRAPHY
David L. Bahnsen, CFP®, works as a Senior Vice President in the private client group of one of the premier Wall Street firms in the country, where he provides financial planning and investment management services to individuals and families. He and his wife of eight years (Joleen) reside in Newport Beach, CA with their four-year old son, Mitchell, and two-year old daughter, Sadie. He is an active board member of the Lincoln Club of Orange County, where he serves on the Executive Committee and chairs the Issues Committee. He is a contributing writer to, and investing partner in, Red County.com. He serves on the Blackstone Faculty of the Alliance Defense Fund, and is a Cooperating Board member of the Center for Cultural Leadership, where he is the Senior Fellow of Economics and Finance.
David is a disciple of Milton Friedman, a lover of Ronald Reagan, and a "National Review kind of conservative". His writings strive to reflect an ideology of freedom principles integrated with transcendent truths. His hero is his late father, Dr. Greg Bahnsen, but he is pretty fond of John Calvin, Abraham Kuyper, F.A. Hayek, Winston Churchill, C.S. Lewis, William Buckley, Margaret Thatcher, George Gilder, Steve Forbes, and Larry Kudlow as well. When he is not being so serious, he also admires Tiger Woods and Pete Carroll.
Hobbies include travel, fine dining, golfing, and sports. His true passions in life include anything pertaining to USC football, the financial markets, politics, his vacation condo in the desert, his gorgeous and brilliant children, and his lovely wife, Joleen.
COMMENTARIES
Uncovered: Obama's Secret "Pitch" for 2016 Olympics
By David Bahnsen | 10/03/09
"Okay ladies and gentlemen, I have flown across the world here to Copenhagen, and I will make this quick for you. I love being here, and even if you go against my wishes tomorrow, this trip will not be in vain. There is nothing I need more than to see Scandinavian socio-political theory in practice, and just seeing the people leaving work at 1:20 pm today showed me that I have work to do back in the hell-hole I am trying to... read more »
2 Comments | Related Topics »National |
David Brooks is Utterly Clueless
By David Bahnsen | 10/02/09
It is unfortunate that a man of David Brooks' writing caliber is so unbelievably affected by rank snobbishness and incredible envy. He has written many things over the years I have enjoyed, though I confess they do not come back to memory easily. But Brooks is a northeast elitist, and there is nothing in the world that irks northeastern elitists more than the very existence of Middle America, let alone the indisputable popularity of... read more »
The President's Pickle is Purely Political
By David Bahnsen | 10/01/09
I subscribe to the view that President Obama is in a true economic pickle, one in which out-of-control deficits are simply unsustainable, and will require forceful action. The economic pickle lies in how he addresses the deficits: Cut spending, and guarantee that you will receive the wrath of anyone and everyone affected by a cut in their precious social entitlement, OR, raise taxes, and risk the mother of all double-dip recessions. ... read more »
A Big Logical Fallacy is About to Doom Us
By David Bahnsen | 09/24/09
It goes without saying that the fields of Logic and Critical Thinking are not big priorities in our present educational system. I do not believe that many people are familiar with the fallacy known as post hoc, ergo propter hoc, but I am declaring now that American society is about to see the most egregious version of this fallacy ever known to man. Translated “after this, therefore because of this”, the post hoc fallacy is a... read more »
The Israel Test: Gilder's Wisdom Reveals Obama's Folly
By David Bahnsen | 09/24/09
To all who value Israel and fear for her safety in a region where so many are devoted to destroying her, the President's speech to the United Nations yesterday was a horror. To understand what a philosophical travesty Obama's words represented, one need only contrast them with the wisdom contained in "The Israel Test." George Gilder is one of the most important people in American public life. In fact, he has... read more »
7 Comments | Related Topics »National |
Will Ben Bernanke See the Light?
By David Bahnsen | 09/21/09
It is hard to imagine more idiotic and reckless words ever being uttered than these: ” … No low risk, low cost, incremental monetary tightening exists that can reliably deflate a bubble. But is there some policy that can at least limit the size of a bubble, and hence, its destructive fallout? From the evidence to date, the answer appears to be no.” - Alan Greenspan, 2002 Jackson Hole Symposium I truly believe that sentence... read more »
DNC Needs a Truth in Advertising Czar
By David Bahnsen | 09/19/09
The Democratic National Committee has a clever little campaign going at the moment, and it can be seen here. Taking a real life clip of Glenn Beck complaining about the countless “czar” appointments of Barack Obama, but running footage next to Beck of all the “George Bush czar appointments” is a neat idea. Surely blaming Obama for something that Bush himself excessively did would be hypocritical of the right, and the DNC... read more »
4 Comments | Related Topics »National |
Federal Gov. Budget Grows 1200X Larger Over Past Century
By David Bahnsen | 09/17/09
I am borrowing this from newsletter guru, John Mauldin, who apparently borrowed it from The Privateer. It is verifiably true, and stunning beyond words. In 1909 the federal government had an annual budget of $0.8 billion (yep, just $800 million). The population was 90 million. The cost of government was $9 per capita. In 2009, the federal government had a budget of $3,550 billion (yep, $3.55 trillion). The population is just over 300 million.... read more »
0 Comments | Related Topics »National |
President Obama's Horribly Anti-Capitalist Day
By David Bahnsen | 09/15/09
Yesterday was not a good day for President Obama. And I say this after he has come off of the worst summer I believe any President has had since a certain President found out about a blue dress that was not going away. Yesterday, President Obama addressed many in the financial community at the Federal Hall in Lower Manhattan, roughly two hot dog carts away from the New York Stock Exchange. He then thumbed his nose at the... read more »
11 Comments | Related Topics »National |
Leading Libertarian Embraces the Left's Buckshot Logic
By David Bahnsen | 09/14/09
I have become pretty accustomed to reading rather bizarre stuff from Steve Greenhut. His tiresome attacks on the U.S. military, his cartoonish suggestions that the founding fathers share his vision for America, and the joy he gets in seeing people like Barack Obama elected President – it is all a tired act, and it is something regular readers of the Op-ed page of the OC Register (like me) are used to. I share Steve’s (small 'l')... read more »
10 Comments | Related Topics »Orange County (CA) | National |
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