{
  "id": "flight-to-safety.pulled-in",
  "term": "flight to safety",
  "sense": "pulled-in",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 18,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "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.",
  "folk_gloss": "investors moving money into the safest assets during turmoil",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "reach.action",
      "fear.nearing-wall",
      "member.social",
      "market.economic",
      "motion.movement",
      "near.spatial",
      "wall.range-end",
      "far.distance",
      "narrow.spatial",
      "read.information"
    ],
    "interaction": "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.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "fear shown as a direction of movement",
      "a move that widens the gap it flees"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "During the 2008 financial crisis, investors bought US Treasury bills so heavily that some yields briefly fell below zero.",
      "domain": "finance"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "relief-rally.receding",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the reverse movement, when the wall is read as moving away"
    },
    {
      "id": "safety.security",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "safety is the state; the flight is the collective move toward it"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "flight to quality",
    "flight to safety",
    "flights to safety"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-flight-to-safety.pulled-in"
}