Retirement luck, Hassett hassles the Fed, and boneless chicken in ... court?

退休幸运,哈塞特困扰美联储,还有无骨鸡肉在……法庭上?

The Indicator from Planet Money

2026-02-20

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It’s … Indicators of the Week! Our weekly look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news.  On today’s episode: Why you better hope you retire at juuuust the right time, why the researchers at the Federal Reserve are being scolded by a White House economic advisor, and taking boneless chicken to court.  Related episodes:  Chicken meat, Gulf of Mexico lawsuit and Social Security beyond the grave  Davos drama, credit card caps and tariff truths  What would it take to fix retirement?  For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez and Corey Bridges. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.   Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • 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...