Affordability isn't just math. It's a story about the future. When hope collapses, the same life suddenly feels unaffordable. Lev Mandel on the vibecession from the inside.

How calling something an emergency changes the rules — and how it feels Somehow, we’re being told there’s an emergency trade deficit. Not a crash. Not a sudden rupture. Just the same thing it’s been for years, now renamed an emergency without any stated reason why today is different from 2017, or 2006. The claim is being made under federal emergency authorities that allow tariffs to be imposed without new legislation, and the Supreme Court is now being asked to decide how m