The Insiders Are Bearish. The Suits Are Buying.
Perception Weekly. Week of February 16-22, 2026
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Why Is Wall Street Building While Everyone Else Is Panicking?
The Most Fearful Market in Years. The Most Aggressive Institutional Build Ever.
What Happens When Mainstream Media Watches Bitcoin Without a Frame
The Open Bitcoin sold off when the U.S.-Iran war started. Two weeks later it's outperforming the S&P 500, Nasdaq, and gold. CNBC ran that headline. And almost nobody is talking about the more interesting thing underneath: the media environment around Bitcoin just went quiet
The Market Crashed 45%. The Infrastructure Didn't Notice.
Perception Weekly - February 16, 2026
Crime Coverage Spiked 271%. Here's Why.
Crime & Legal coverage jumped 271% this week, from 28 mentions to 104 across 28 outlets. That's nearly a 4x surge in a single week. It was the biggest momentum shift across every topic we track. In the 2025 EOY report we did in collaboration with Epoch VC,