flight to safety · pulled-in
Ask PrometheusMembers of a market moving together from what is near walls to what is far from them, narrowing their reach when a wall reads as near.
Flight to safety (noun) means: Members of a market moving together from what is near walls to what is far from them, narrowing their reach when a wall reads as near. It emerges from reach, fear, member, market: Fear kept across a market turns into one direction of action; since all move at once, the prices of what is far from walls rise and those near walls fall, confirming the fear. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 18, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
ordinarily means: investors moving money into the safest assets during turmoil
Examples
- During the 2008 financial crisis, investors bought US Treasury bills so heavily that some yields briefly fell below zero. finance
Emergence
- fear shown as a direction of movement
- a move that widens the gap it flees
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (413 steps)
- flight to safetyL18
- reachL13
- possibilityL12
- windowL7
- wallL8
- setL9
- enterL3
- actionL4
- fearL15
- memberL7
- marketL17
- motionL2
- nearL2
- wallL8
- farL2
- spaceL0
- differenceL1
- timeL0
- narrowL5
- readL7
- seeL6
- informationL6
- entitiesL4
- reachL13
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | relief-rally.receding | the reverse movement, when the wall is read as moving away |
| contrasts-with | safety.security | safety is the state; the flight is the collective move toward it |