After several years worth of appearances, David Bahnsen (managing partner and chief investment officer at the Bahnsen Group) finally comes on to talk about his main gig: how money works. It only took five whole shows for Jonah to stop asking him about the postmillenial view about how the world’s going to end. But what better time to start asking about the economy than now, as the national conversation turns to taxing the rich, reopening the economy after a year and a half, and whether or not we’re entering an inflationary spiral? Oh, and David’s in the Five-Timer’s Club now.
Show Notes:
- That time that David Bahnsen started COVID
- David sub-hosts for Jonah, talks to David (the other one)
- Remember “flattening” the curve?
- David recognized a COVID/obesity connection in May 2020
- Jonah on the ProPublica story
- David’s somewhat mistimed book on Elizabeth Warren’s campaign
- David in Commentary on wealth tax proposals
- Larry Summers doesn’t like wealth taxes
- “Sticky wages”... gross
- Lacey Hunt thinks inflation ends with a whimper, not a bang