Society & Frontier risk-off · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Canadian households default on auto and unsecured debt alongside their mortgages?

Stretched Canadian households hit by mortgage renewal default simultaneously on auto and unsecured debt, driving correlated consumer-credit losses beyond bank stress-test baselines.

10%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — the market's odds
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Anchored to measured history 10% · 90% range 0–20% · 26 dated precedents behind it — a wider range means thinner evidence

Every number ships with its receipt — the odds, the range, the precedents, and a public grade at Reality Check. The statistical machinery that produces it is proprietary.

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. Stretched Canadian households hit by mortgage renewal default simultaneously on auto and unsecured debt, driving correlated consumer-credit losses beyond bank stress-test baselines. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Consumer spending ▼ · Credit spreads ▲ · Mortgage rates ▲ · Recession signal ▲ — 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.