Our colleague David Wessel on WSJ’s Real Time Economics blog writes about the latest Gallup survey on American’s views of our national institutions — and it’s not looking good for Congress, banks and big businesses.

Asked to gauge their confidence in 16 institutions, only 11% of those surveyed said they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in Congress, down from 17% in 2009 and a percentage point lower than the previous low for Congress, recorded in 2008. Only 19% said they have a great deal or a quite a lot of confidence in big business, and 23% said the same about banks.

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