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Consumers think Halloween’s biggest fright is the scare the pandemic is putting on their finances

Almost half of consumers think credit card debt is scarier than COVID-19, a survey finds

With the pandemic’s first Halloween less than a week away, a new WalletHub study finds that consumers are still spending billions on the holiday, but overall, they’re feeling life is a little spookier than they’d prefer.

The survey -- WalletHub’s Halloween Spending & Financial Fears Survey -- lays out these consumer frights:

A whopping 130 million Americans think the coronavirus is the scariest thing about Halloween this year.

Nearly 40 percent of Americans are more afraid...

10/26/2020 By Gary Guthrie

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