President Donald Trump 's short list to replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chair has turned into a long list of nearly a dozen possible candidates.

Among them are current and former Fed officials, prominent economists and a couple market-focused hopefuls, each with ideas about where the central bank should be headed at a critical juncture for monetary policy.

For most of them, the views coalesce around a need to lower the Fed's benchmark interest rate, and some believe the changes must go beyond that and into the fundamental way it does business.

In CNBC interviews that stretch back days, weeks and even months, the candidates have talked in depth about where they think the Fed should go.

(See the video above for the key comments from those in the Fed chair race.)

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