Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three.

Hello America.

It is Eric Erickson here across the nation.

Glad to have you with me.

The phone number is 877-97-9-73-7-4-25, should you wish to be on the program.

Really glad to have you.

Now, we've got to move on to, sadly, the economic news of the day, which is exceedingly frustrating in large

part because consumers, I guess we could say, are expecting an economic downturn.

And who can really blame them, given what we're seeing across the nation economically.

There are more and more signs that even though the government appears to be encouraged by what's

going on, they don't necessarily, oh, I don't know.

They don't want to, they don't want to ring alarm bells, but consumers themselves are kind of getting tipped off.

Now, I'll deal with this personally.

I've got credit card debt. I've got credit card debt.

I've got more credit card debt than I should have, frankly.

And we're working to pay it off.

I have a credit card. I pay it off every month.

But I've got one where essentially because as I was growing my syndicated show, things were, there were things

I had to buy and I did not have the revenue stream with the company to be able to buy them

as I was growing it.

I put it on my personal credit card and I've got a large balance on this credit card and it is, I'm slow to pay it off. I'm paying it off a little bit

every month and I'm more and more mindful that I need to get all of my debt paid off as quickly as

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