🌍 Society & Frontier risk-off · 3–10 years
A what‑if from the future

What if Japan's swelling stock of vacant homes slowly erodes regional bank mortgage collateral?

Japan's swelling stock of vacant homes (akiya) and depopulating regions structurally erode residential collateral values and mortgage recoverability, a slow-burn impairment to regional-bank housing-loan books.

10%
our model probability
over 3–10 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 10% · 90% range 1–18% · 38 analogues · measured class labor 97% in 10 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — labor ≈0.3374/yr → 97% in 10 yr97%
Analyst prior · editorial share 6% of the class6%
Pooled · weight 86%10%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)10%
Published10%

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 3–10 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.

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What it would mean

If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Japan's swelling stock of vacant homes (akiya) and depopulating regions structurally erode residential collateral values and mortgage recoverability, a slow-burn impairment to regional-bank housing-loan books. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Credit spreads ▲ · Labor shortage ▲ · Recession signal ▲ · 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.

MarketClassProjected move
1MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -5.94–+1.28% · other way +15.45% (n=12)
2Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.5%
hist -10.44–+6.99% · other way -13.98% (n=11)
3High-yield credit HYG 📈 chartRate▼ -0.5%
hist -0.59–-0.05% · other way -0.38% (n=12)
4Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.5%
hist -0.63–-0.04% · other way +0.21% (n=12)
5Financials XLF 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.62–+0.01% · other way -0.76% (n=12)
6Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +0.4%
hist -1.36–+3.3% · other way -10.38% (n=12)
7Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.4%
model prior · unmeasured
8Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.4%
hist -3.64–+2.27% · other way +1.56% (n=11)
9S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.4%
hist -1.87–+0.61% · other way +1.61% (n=12)
10Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.4%
hist -5.43–+3.86% · other way -4.02% (n=11)
11Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.45–+0.55% · other way +0.37% (n=12)
12Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.9–+0.6% · other way +7.8% (n=11)
13JPMorgan JPM 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.17–-0.01% · other way -0.51% (n=12)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
Cash / hedgeRaise cash and hold the long hedges above; this scenario is net risk-off.
For a common-man portfolio: A typical stock-heavy portfolio is at risk. Consider trimming equities, raising cash, and a small cash hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): High-yield credit -0.5% · Financials -0.4% · Tech sector -0.3% · JPMorgan -0.2%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 38 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.

Greece first EU/IMF bailout 2010-05 Northern Rock bank run 2007-09 1976 UK sterling crisis / IMF bailout 1976-09 Weak July 2024 jobs report triggers Sahm-rule growth scare 2024-08 First Republic Bank seized and sold to JPMorgan 2023-05 Regional-bank panic deepens after Signature seizure 2023-03 August 2022 hot CPI 2022-09 Powell's hawkish 'pain' speech at Jackson Hole 2022-08 Kaisa Group offshore default 2021-12 Turkish lira record low on rate cuts 2021-11 February 2018 hot wage print triggers rate scare 2018-02 China-led global 'Black Monday' rout 2015-08 HYG record outflows in 2014 high-yield rout 2014-10 Mt. Gox collapse 2014-02 Mt. Gox halts withdrawals 2014-02 Cyprus deposit bail-in 2013-03 Spain requests EUR100bn bank bailout 2012-06 Bankia nationalised in Spain's banking crisis 2012-05 Portugal requests EU-IMF bailout 2011-04 Greece requests EU/IMF bailout 2010-04 Anglo Irish Bank nationalisation 2009-01 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac conservatorship 2008-09 IndyMac Bank seized by the Office of Thrift Supervision 2008-07 American Home Mortgage bankruptcy 2007-08 Bear Stearns freezes redemptions on subprime hedge funds 2007-06 New Century Financial bankruptcy 2007-04 HSBC subprime profit warning 2007-02 Turkey lets the lira float 2001-02 Mexico $50bn international rescue package 1995-01 1990-91 recession onset 1990-07 Hong Kong Stock Exchange four-day closure after Black Monday 1987-10 1982 unemployment peaks at 10.8% 1983-01 Penn Square Bank failure 1982-07 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 1973-75 recession onset 1973-11
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-10.6% · 5d -10.6%71%7 0.29✓ matches cascade
MSTR MSTRSHORT-5.0% · 5d -3.6%67%27 0.25✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-5.5% · 5d -4.7%62%8 0.17✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-3.5% · 5d -4.5%60%10 0.16✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10SHORT-8bp · 5d -4bp58%38 0.16·
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.3% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades58%24 0.13✓ matches cascade
COIN COINLONG+0.8% · 5d +5.6%57%7 0.11⚠ differs
Gold XAUSHORT-0.4% · 5d -0.4%56%27 0.10·
US dollar DXYLONG+0.6% · 5d +0.2%55%38 0.08·
SPX SPXSHORT-1.6% · 5d -0.6%53%38 0.06✓ matches cascade
XLF XLFSHORT-0.3% · 5d -1.2%52%27 0.03✓ matches cascade
XLK XLKLONG+0.7% · 5d -0.6% ↺ fades52%27 0.03⚠ differs
NDX NDXSHORT-0.3% · 5d -1.5%43%30 0.00✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+3.0% · 5d +6.8%48%29 0.00✓ matches cascade

Methodology. Probability and impact are anchored to history and scored against what actually happens — wins and losses, in public, at Reality Check. Crowd odds live from Polymarket & Kalshi. By Vikas Singh, Quantitative Strategist. Updated 2026-07-03.