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Vibecession and why President Joe Biden gets no love for a bouncy US economy

The economy is better than it has been, but people continue to feel bad because the recovery has been uneven. PHOTO: AFP
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WASHINGTON – Meet Kyla Scanlon, a star economic influencer on TikTok with a flock of over 168,000 followers and over 2.5 million likes.

Around this time in 2022, she grabbed the headlines when she coined a catchy word “vibecession” to describe the complicated United States economy that had been shrinking for two consecutive quarters.

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