# flight to safety (pulled-in)

*Ordinarily means:* investors moving money into the safest assets during turmoil

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.

- Computed level: L18 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [fear](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fear.nearing-wall), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [market](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-market.economic), [motion](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-motion.movement), [near](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-near.spatial), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [far](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-far.distance), [narrow](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrow.spatial), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information)

**Through:** 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
- During the 2008 financial crisis, investors bought US Treasury bills so heavily that some yields briefly fell below zero. *(finance)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-flight-to-safety.pulled-in.json*  
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