This is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.

All right, so there is a lot of data hitting out there.

This from Fox business, Americans are quickly losing confidence in the U.S. economy.

According to a new survey published this week, reflecting heightened concerns among consumers about sky-high inflation and the rising price of everyday goods.

A Gallup survey published Wednesday shows Americans have low levels of confidence in the economy.

What's more most Americans expect the economy to deteriorate further?

About 76% said the economy is getting worse compared to 20% who believe it is improving.

So, Christina, what we have to do when we see stuff like this is there's three or four

things going on as far as I'm concerned. Thing one is there is some real inflation.

Thing two is, is not going to kill you. It's bad. It's ugly when you fill up your car and you have a

heart attack when you look at the price. It's ugly when you fill up your car and you have a heart attack when you look at the price.

It's ugly when you consider that house prices are doing what they're doing in a lot of areas.

It's not going to kill you.

I don't like it. I don't want it to stay around. I don't think it's going to stay around.

That's thing one.

Thing two is the news media, particularly our friends at Fox, want to tell you over and over and over and over and over again how bad the economy is.

Because if there's one thing that will get a politician thrown out of office of either party,

it is that the economy is bad.

So if you want to dump all of the Democrats in the street at the midterm,

the best way to do that's convince everyone that the economy is bad.

So there's a little bit of an agenda here.

Just a wee bit.

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