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Herd Shadows: Advisors Chase the Echo I get what you're laying out here—it's that classic herd mentality in markets where the "experts" chase shadows instead of substance, only piling on once the panic button's been mashed. You've nailed the disconnect: advisors sleepwalking through the real tariff grind, then jolting awake to a single provocative post from Trump, treating it like the apocalypse. And now, with China's swift retaliation hitting US shipping right in the gut, the sweat's pouring in. Let's break this down with what's actually unfolding, because yeah, this feels like peak fear, and history's got some ugly echoes for what comes next. The Spark: Not the Event, But the Noise You're spot on—they ignored the simmering US-China tariff tensions that have been bubbling since spring, but lit up like a Christmas tree over Trump's weekend bombshell. On October 10, he fired off a Truth Social post (close enough to a tweet in impact)...