In This Economy?

Economics commentator Kyla Scanlon set out to explain how the whole economy works to a generation that gets its news from short videos and feels squeezed by it all. In This Economy? walks through the building blocks, inflation, interest rates, the labor market, housing, and the stock market, using Scanlon's own illustrations, analogies, and a voice built on social media. Her central idea is the "vibecession," the term she coined for the gap between solid economic indicators and the gloom people actually feel, and she argues that those vibes feed back into the real economy. The book joins hard numbers to lived experience, drawing on behavioral economics to translate dense macroeconomic machinery into something a general reader can use.