Timely Topics

Retirements increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who retired and why?


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"During the pandemic, a lot of people had reasons to retire and the way that markets evolved allowed them to retire," says Miguel Faria-E-Castro, a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He is joined by Lowell Ricketts, a data scientist at the Institute for Economic Equity, to discuss the "Great Retirement," how COVID-19 is connected to increased retirements and the demographics of those retirees.

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