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“There’s just a general unease about the economy, particularly over the last several months. We’ve seen a slowdown in hiring really across the board,” said Dante DeAntonio, senior director of economic research at Moody’s Analytics.

Looking back over the last two months, we can track how that unease went from a simmer to a boil.

“There’s clearly unease about the homeless situation, which seems to be continually spiraling out of control. There’s concern about crime,” South said.

“How long that will last is hard to say, but it certainly has created a great deal of unease,” Ross said.

Even as stocks soared following Trump’s announcement of a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday, unease over the economy's future and security continued.