Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Stephen Miran is President Donald Trump's nominee to become the Federal Reserve's next governor, but his name is largely unknown to the American public.
Miran, 41, visited the White House on Tuesday for reasons unknown, but his candidacy to temporarily fill a vacancy on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors likely will make Miran's name more familiar with those who pay attention to the Federal Reserve's lending rate.
Miran is a Harvard-educated tariffs advocate with a doctorate in economics who views China as rigging the global monetary system to ensure it has a competitive edge over the United States, according to a recent Fortune profile of Miran.
Miran told Fortune that, while working as a currency-focused economist on Wall Street in his late 20s, he noticed China's monetary policies devalued its renminbi currency while boosting the value of the U.S. dollar.
"The currency markets are a bit of the wild wild West," he told Fortune. "All sorts of things happen that shouldn't happen in an economics textbook."
