Do you know anyone who has suffered, or is suffering, from long COVID? I do, and it can be a very serious matter. In a broader, economic sense, though, we all are. Since COVID, economic sentiment across most of the developed world has been consistently in mild recessionary territory: the first time we have seen that pattern since we started collecting the data in the early noughties. This protracted ‘vibecession’ is not about growth, which is fairly strong in the