Synopsis
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"Yup, it is my fault -- and yours. How assuming responsibility makes us better people: 'Crisis of Responsibility' by the inimitable @davidbahnsen"—Amity Shlaes, Author of The Forgotten Man
The left and right have gone to great lengths to blame the problems plaguing our society but neither Washington DC, Wall Street, Mexico, China, the Feds, nor the media are the cause of our problems—nor are they the cure.
Across the globe a “revolt” of sorts is taking place against elitism. No more will big government, big media, big banks, big bureaucracy, and big institutions hold the secret nuggets of truth and dictate our lives and fortunes. Financial markets, political punditry, and cultural leaders are all scrambling to react to the rise of the often disenfranchised.
But what happens after all the bogeymen have been vanquished? What if opposing the incompetence of the European Union, the biases of the American media, the corruption of crony capitalism, the arrogance of political power brokers, and allegedly unfair global trade deals is not enough?
The key to American prosperity in this new era of populism is for moral people to make responsibility matter again by renewing personal virtue and form lasting, mediating institutions that will trump the elitist bogeymen and scapegoats for generations to come.
If we fail as individual Americans to address this core crisis of responsibility, we have only ourselves to blame for what happens next.
About the Author
David L. Bahnsen is the founder, managing partner, and chief investment officer of The Bahnsen Group, a private wealth management firm managing over $9 billion in client capital. David was a senior portfolio manager and managing director at Morgan Stanley until 2015, at which time he started The Bahnsen Group with eight employees and $600 million in client assets. Today the firm has one hundred employees, twelve offices, and has organically grown assets and revenues at 30 percent per year for over a decade. He is a frequent guest on Fox Business, CNBC, and Bloomberg. He writes weekly at www.dividendcafe.com and is the host of the popular Capital Record podcast. He is consistently named one of the top wealth advisors in the country by Barron’s and Forbes.
David and his wife, Joleen, have been married for twenty-five years. They have three children, Mitchell, Sadie, and Graham, and live bi-coastally in New York City and Newport Beach.
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