Stock Exchange

President Bartlet, gut-shot and commanding from a trauma-room gurney as shooters crumple and chaos erupts, thrusts Leo into action: relay to Jerome the iron order to suspend trading on the Stock Exchange. Markets screech to a halt, liquidity arteries clamped to starve panic amid assassination terror, shielding national economy from cratering under crisis weight. Jerome materializes as pivotal executor of this executive override, exposing the Exchange's thumping core of securities flux as indispensable, fiat-absorbing infrastructure—vulnerable yet vital for stability when presidential blood stains the floor and continuity teeters.