Martin Hutchinson, contributing Editor to Money Morning and retired investment banker, shares his analysis of the current Federal Reserve Bureaucracy.

The papers today all carry the news that a whopping 81% of Americans, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll, believe that the US is on the wrong track — or to be precise, that “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.”

But behind this headline is the finding that spiraling gas and oil prices are of more concern to Americans than the home mortgage crisis.