Fink’s brand was his rigorous analysis and discipline. In a world of charlatans and crowd followers, he presented himself as that rare figure who did the math and reckoned with the variables. But his performance in Argentina challenged that reputation, revealing him as a Davos Man who had been mesmerized by a president who had catered to his preconceptions. “His team didn’t do their job,” Stiglitz told me. “They bought into Macri, and the myth that Macri created, without doing their homework. Rather than admitting that they made a bad call, they blamed Argentina.”
