I'm going exclusively from the wikipedia article, which have things like "When polled, most Americans had a negative perception of the economy, with some sayin

I'm going exclusively from the wikipedia article, which have things like "When polled, most Americans had a negative perception of the economy, with some saying that it had even entered a period of recession, while data showed that inflation was going down and GDP growing. This pessimism about the overall economy heavily contrasted with Americans' perception of their own financial situation, which they said was mostly positive.[5]"