Washington wants you distracted — by culture wars, by the latest Beltway scandals, by whatever bread-and-circus theater keeps you from seeing the machinery behind the curtain. But money is the real battlefield, and the appointment of Stephen Miran to the Federal Reserve is no bureaucratic footnote. This is a tell — a deliberate move in what could be the first openly fought currency war in modern U.S. history. You’d better understand the stakes, because when the smoke clears, the winners will own the world’s productive assets, and the losers will be holding paper promises worth less than yesterday’s headlines.