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US consumer sentiment is at lows normally reserved for times of severe recession. Regardless of whether household perceptions have broken from reality, or macro data are failing to capture a wide swathe struggling to get by, the ‘vibecession’ matters for politics. Ultimately it feeds into votes, policy choices and back into the economy and markets.