Central Banks & Macro risk-off · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if A Truss-style bond-vigilante moment forces a fiscal U-turn?

An unfunded fiscal package in a major economy triggers a disorderly gilt-style selloff and a pension-LDI scramble; spreads and volatility spike, the currency drops, and authorities reverse course under market pressure.

20%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — the market's odds
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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 (electric blue) over time vs the market's (Polymarket, amber), from the past toward the 6–18 months 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. Loading the probability audit trail…

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What it would mean

If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. An unfunded fiscal package in a major economy triggers a disorderly gilt-style selloff and a pension-LDI scramble; spreads and volatility spike, the currency drops, and authorities reverse course under market pressure. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — EM currencies ▼ · Volatility (VIX) ▲ · Credit spreads ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ · Risk-parity deleveraging ▲ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.

Methodology. Probability and impact are anchored to history and scored against what actually happens — wins and losses, in public, at Reality Check. Market odds live from Polymarket & Kalshi. By Vikas Singh, Quantitative Strategist. Updated 2026-08-13.