The man Trump nominated to undermine Fed independence once wrote a scathing critique of how the Fed wasn't independent enough

For a man who has been thrust into the political spotlight as President Trump’s appointee to the Fed Board of Governors, relatively little is known about Stephen Miran. Back in May, when Fortune profiled President Trump’s then newly confirmed head of the Council of Economic Advisers , he spoke candidly about his formative years and economic training, but it was hard to find many peers who had even heard of him. Heads of the CEA are typically either prestigious names drawn from top universities (Ben Bernanke, Jason Furman, Austan Goolsbee) or longtime Washington operatives, or both. Despite a brief stint at the Department of the Treasury during Trump’s first term, Miran—who’d previously worked as an economist on Wall Street—checked neither box. In fact, many sources I spoke to for that