2026-02-20
9 分钟NPR.
This is The Indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Waylon Wong.
I'm Darian Woods.
And I'm Adrian Ma.
And today, it is, in fact, Indicators of the Week.
This is, of course, the day of the week where we talk about our favorite numbers from the news.
On today's episode, we're going to be talking about the blind luck of retirement.
We have the Federal Reserve's worst economic research ever, according to the White House.
And perhaps the most important economic question we've ever asked on this show,
what's up with boneless chicken wings?
Straight after the break.
It's indicators of the week.
Darian Woods, you're up first.
My indicator is 2.9.
As in, you could be 2.9 times richer just because you started saving and retired on a lucky year.
I was born year of the rooster.
Is that a lucky year?
You could argue.
And this was all...