What if A reform-minded Fed Board reasserts independence, firming the dollar?
A slate of credible, independent appointees reassures markets on Fed autonomy, restoring the credibility premium; the dollar and real yields firm while gold's hedge bid fades.
how we built this number — every step
The class rate is measured from our dated, sourced event library (decade-normalized Poisson — the full table is public at base_rates.json). The variant’s share within its class is the analyst’s editorial call, published so you can audit it. A wider range means thinner precedent. Full recipe: methodology · scored at Reality Check.
The butterfly cascade
How this trigger trickles across markets, left → right — the root shock, its first‑order moves, then the ripple effects. Drag any node; tap a market for its real price history.
Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving
Our model's odds (gold) over time vs the crowd's (Polymarket, blue), from the past toward the 1–3 years horizon. Each dot is a real macro event that nudged the probability — green pushed it up, red pushed it down. Tap a dot for the source. The gold path is an illustrative reconstruction anchored to today's estimate — real dated events, not a live re-estimate history.
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-on shock. A slate of credible, independent appointees reassures markets on Fed autonomy, restoring the credibility premium; the dollar and real yields firm while gold's hedge bid fades. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — US dollar (DXY) ▲ · Gold ▼ · Dollar/reserve confidence ▲ · Real yields ▲ · Risk appetite ▲ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.
If it happens — the markets it would move
Biggest moves first. Projected moves are cascade-model priors; hist A–B% = what comparable past events actually did (measured abnormal returns), and model prior · unmeasured marks markets with no analogue backing yet. Tap any market for its price history.
| Market | Class | Projected move | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -2.5% hist -6.67–+9.79% · other way +13.78% (n=10) |
| 2 | Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -2.2% hist -1.81–-0.51% · other way +1.78% (n=10) |
| 3 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -1.4% hist -3.11–+5.93% · other way +0.31% (n=10) |
| 4 | US dollar (DXY) DXYon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +1.1% hist +0.39–+0.72% · other way -0.08% (n=12) |
| 5 | EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -1.0% hist -0.56–-0.07% · other way +0.03% (n=10) |
| 6 | Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.9% hist -5.03–+8.69% · other way +10.14% (n=10) |
| 7 | GBP/USD GBPUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.8% hist -0.55–-0.21% · other way -0.25% (n=10) |
| 8 | Turkish lira TRY 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.8% hist -0.67–-0.21% · other way +0.02% (n=10) |
| 9 | Indian rupee INR 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.7% hist -0.48–-0.15% · other way +0.6% (n=10) |
| 10 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.6% hist -3.31–+5.79% · other way -4.46% (n=10) |
| 11 | USD/JPY USDJPYon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +0.6% hist -0.06–+0.94% · other way +0.23% (n=10) |
| 12 | Korean won KRWon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.6% hist -0.63–-0.05% · other way -0.13% (n=10) |
| 13 | Aussie dollar AUD 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.5% hist -0.54–-0.06% · other way -0.42% (n=10) |
| 14 | Chinese yuan CNY 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.4% hist -0.6–+0.02% · other way -0.66% (n=10) |
Probable recommendation
Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did
Across 40 analogous events (overlap‑weighted), as abnormal returns — market beta stripped, so it's the event's own effect, not the market backdrop. Shown at 20 days (persistent) and 5 days (immediate); ↺ fades = the two horizons disagree. Confidence = consistency × sample × significance.
| Asset | History says | Abnormal (20d · 5d) | Hit | n | Confidence | vs cascade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10y yield DGS10 | LONG | +8bp · 5d +2bp | 68% | 40 | 0.27 | ⚠ differs |
| SPX SPX | LONG | +0.6% · 5d +0.6% | 65% | 40 | 0.25 | ✓ matches cascade |
| High-yield credit HYG | SHORT | -0.4% · 5d -0.1% | 65% | 40 | 0.22 | · |
| USDJPY USDJPY | LONG | +0.6% · 5d +0.1% | 60% | 40 | 0.17 | ✓ matches cascade |
| EURUSD EURUSD | LONG | +0.3% · 5d +0.1% | 60% | 40 | 0.16 | ⚠ differs |
| CNY CNY | SHORT | -0.4% · 5d -0.2% | 57% | 40 | 0.15 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Volatility VIX | SHORT | -1.4% · 5d -6.0% | 60% | 40 | 0.15 | · |
| INR INR | SHORT | -0.1% · 5d +0.2% ↺ fades | 60% | 40 | 0.14 | ✓ matches cascade |
| NDX NDX | LONG | +0.3% · 5d -0.7% ↺ fades | 60% | 40 | 0.14 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Bitcoin BTC | LONG | +6.3% · 5d -1.8% ↺ fades | 57% | 37 | 0.12 | ⚠ differs |
| 30y yield DGS30 | LONG | +6bp · 5d +2bp | 57% | 40 | 0.12 | ⚠ differs |
| XHB XHB | SHORT | -0.9% · 5d -1.1% | 57% | 40 | 0.12 | ✓ matches cascade |
| KRW KRW | SHORT | -0.3% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades | 57% | 40 | 0.11 | ✓ matches cascade |
| ETH ETH | LONG | +2.4% · 5d -3.9% ↺ fades | 56% | 32 | 0.10 | ⚠ differs |