Maradona’s contribution to monetary policy

Thursday, 26 November 2020

Sad news from Argentina today. Diego Maradona, one of the most gifted footballers to ever play the game, has died.

While his dribbling prowess was world renowned, fewer people know that his skills were used to construct one of the most memorable monetary policy analogies of all time.

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About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.