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Worrying about the economy has 'overtaken COVID as the main driver of anxiety" in America: poll
Harris, Marketwatch, Morningstar ^ | 02/24/2023 | Charles Passy and Greg Robb

Posted on 02/24/2023 10:58:49 AM PST by SaxxonWoods

Despite some relatively good news earlier this year, Americans remain deeply worried about the economy, according to a new Harris Poll survey provided exclusively to MarketWatch.

The poll, conducted this month, found that 87% of respondents were concerned about the economy and inflation -- a figure that has held steady over the past year through all its financial ups and downs, according to Harris Poll officials.

Economic concern is "a big thing and it's overtaken COVID as the main driver of anxiety," said Harris Poll chief executive Will Johnson.

For many Americans, it may not matter that economic trends are improving, Johnson said, because "inflation is here, it's real and [you're] seeing it everywhere."

(Excerpt) Read more at morningstar.com ...


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Here's a poll that may elicit more agreement from FReepers than the electoral ones.
1 posted on 02/24/2023 10:58:49 AM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: SaxxonWoods

Ok so it crashes in October next year. We win?


2 posted on 02/24/2023 11:00:49 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: SaxxonWoods

Darn it. I’m just finishing a book on long covid.


3 posted on 02/24/2023 11:02:55 AM PST by ckilmer (q)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Tho main anxiety related to COVID should revolve around the Deep State’s manipulation of people’s minds to affect the overthrow of a President.


4 posted on 02/24/2023 11:05:52 AM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Ok so it crashes in October next year. We win?


tough times are usually the cure.


5 posted on 02/24/2023 11:09:53 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Exactly. The end of civil rights that has been clearly revealed, should be the primary concern.


6 posted on 02/24/2023 11:11:48 AM PST by Codeflier (My voting days are over. Let it burn...give the people what they want good and hard.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Except me——

“...87% of respondents were concerned about the economy and inflation...”

Yet Biden has a 46% approval rating?

Someone is lying...or cheating....


7 posted on 02/24/2023 11:16:25 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: SaxxonWoods

NEVER worried about CONvid. Gas, elec bill going up $90/mth from las year, $5 friggin bread. Yeah, that worries me. 😳


8 posted on 02/24/2023 11:18:14 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

+1

Loss of liberty concerned me more than potential loss of life...from day one.


9 posted on 02/24/2023 11:21:15 AM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Impossible. Joe talked about the booming economy just the other night.


10 posted on 02/24/2023 11:24:38 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Crashing faster than that


11 posted on 02/24/2023 11:24:59 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: MrRelevant

And yet one of the stores I service advertises “Inflation Buster” deals.


12 posted on 02/24/2023 2:08:06 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: SaxxonWoods; All

The most interesting thing I’m noticing is that there is more disagreement among the major pros than usual.

That indicates to me that the situation is too complex to analyze with accuracy.

Which is fine for most here as they just predict their hopes.


13 posted on 02/24/2023 2:45:30 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself. 111 is the key.)
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To: mikelets456; All

Those 46% are on some form of welfare. That’s how democrats remain in power. Strengthen the “dependent class.”


14 posted on 02/24/2023 5:02:37 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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