One would think that being on the Federal Reserve board might require one’s full attention, what with being responsible for setting U.S. monetary policy and such. But Stephen Miran, President Donald Trump’s nominee to fill an empty spot on the board, decided he doesn’t have to quit his day job.

Miran is currently the chair of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, which is housed in the Executive Office of the President. In that role, his job is to push for Trump’s cartoonishly ineffective and catastrophic economic policies, which these days is mostly just turning a lever labeled “tariffs” up to 11 and back down to zero in rapid succession.

In other words, it’s not a neutral, nonpartisan position, and it isn’t one that seems terribly compatible with being on the Federal Reserve board, whe

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