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Who will Trump pick for Fed chair? Hear from all the candidates in their own words
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 ... (full story)