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Re:How the U.S. economy can look pretty good but feel pretty... by sebast_bake on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @08:24PM (#49720649)
The “vibecession” is very strange to me. Despite seeing countless analyses and hot-takes, I still feel like I don’t really get it. I haven’t seen any smoking gun explanation.
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Re:How the U.S. economy can look pretty good but feel pretty... by eszed on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @02:25AM (#49722754)
I was introduced to this by an HN discussion a few months back:

https://www.unitedforalice.org/essentials-index

It's the closest thing I've seen to a once-shot explanation of the "vibe-cession" phenomenon, because, I think, it's a better metric of most people's experience of the current economy than the official measures. What do you think of it?

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