Joanne Hsu

We have 57 percent of consumers

providing unsolicited comments that high prices were weighing down their personal finances.

This is a big jump from 50%.

And 50% was already really high.

The last time we saw numbers like this, it was actually during the Korean War.

And what's happening with gas prices is just compounding on them.

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We have 57% of consumers.

providing unsolicited comments that high prices were weighing down their personal finances.

This is a big jump from 50%.

And 50% was already really high.

The last time we saw numbers like this, it was actually during the Korean War.

And what's happening with gas prices is just compounding on top.

It's hard to tell exactly how consumers are weighting inflation in different parts of the economy, but certainly all of these things are weighing on them.

Gas prices were mentioned by almost 40% of consumers completely unprompted.

By and large, the consensus is that the pain of prices is widespread.

Essentially, over the course of the month, consumers' views of the economy just continued to deteriorate.

Consumers had already been feeling pretty negative about the impact of gas prices, the Iran war, and those price developments and inflation developments.

But now they're really starting to worry that the pain of this is going to persist into the long run.