As a financial behavioral analyst raised in rural Illinois, I’ve watched markets turn into emotional echo chambers. Trump’s 90-day tariff pause wasn’t about trade—it was about signaling power through fear. This isn’t policy; it’s psychology disguised as economics. I ask: when algorithms amplify greed, what are we really buying? Not coins. Not tariffs. But the illusion of safety in a world that measures trust by quotas. Let me show you the quiet crisis beneath the numbers.