Wall Street is riding high on AI vibes. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg/Getty Images New York —

A collective angst is taking root. Maybe you feel it watching the news, scrolling social media, standing in line at the grocery checkout. Something’s off, and maybe it’s been that way for a while, but it hasn’t always been this tense, right?

While there are myriad reasons for our individual anxieties, there are also economic realities underpinning our agita. Some call it a K-shaped economy , in which the wealthy are getting richer and the poor are becoming worse off. None of that is especially new, but what makes this moment different is the utter flimsiness of it all. The sense — amplified by tech outages , a government shutdown and volatile markets — that we’re just one slip-up away

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