🏛 Central Banks & Macro mixed · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if Climate-driven crop volatility keeps India inflation sticky?

Recurring heat and erratic monsoons make food prices structurally volatile, keeping headline inflation lumpy and constraining how far the RBI can ease over the cycle.

16%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 16% · 90% range 5–26% · 29 analogues · measured class agriculture 100% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — agriculture ≈1.9132/yr → 100% in 3 yr100%
Analyst prior · editorial share 16% of the class16%
Pooled · weight 83%16%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)16%
Published16%

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.

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What it would mean

If this plays out, it is a mixed shock. Recurring heat and erratic monsoons make food prices structurally volatile, keeping headline inflation lumpy and constraining how far the RBI can ease over the cycle. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Climate/crop supply ▲ · Food inflation ▲ · Inflation expectations ▲ · 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
1Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.4%
hist -4.21–+4.7% · other way -2.24% (n=11)
2Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.3%
model prior · unmeasured
3Wheat WHEATon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.4%
hist +0.02–+0.47% · other way -1.94% (n=12)
4Corn CORNon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.3%
hist +0.06–+0.27% · other way -0.85% (n=12)
5Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.3%
hist -3.2–+3.22% · other way +3.85% (n=11)
6MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -1.38–+0.57% · other way +32.94% (n=12)
7Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.2%
hist -0.31–+0.5% · other way -0.64% (n=12)
8Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.44–+0.75% · other way -0.55% (n=12)
9Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.36–+0.49% · other way +1.0% (n=12)
10Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.2%
hist -3.07–+3.57% · other way +8.53% (n=11)
1130y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▲ +2bp
hist -1.78–+6.04% · other way +3.4% (n=12)
12Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.1%
hist -1.45–+0.51% · other way +0.65% (n=12)
1310y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▲ +2bp
hist -0.83–+3.76% · other way +4.0% (n=12)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
For a common-man portfolio: Mixed for a typical portfolio — the move is more about rotation than direction. Favour the winners over the losers below rather than net exposure.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector -0.2% · 30y Treasury yield +2bp · 10y Treasury yield +2bp

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 29 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.

Chernobyl disaster 1986-04 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 H5N1 bird flu record US egg prices 2025-04 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 August 2022 hot CPI 2022-09 Powell's hawkish 'pain' speech at Jackson Hole 2022-08 Turkish lira record low on rate cuts 2021-11 Gold closes above $2,000/oz for the first time 2020-08 IPBES warns ~1 million species face extinction 2019-05 February 2018 hot wage print triggers rate scare 2018-02 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 Gold futures velocity-logic flash crash 2014-01 Gold all-time peak of $1,921/oz 2011-09 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Crude oil all-time high 2008-07 2008 global rice / food price crisis peak 2008-04 2008 global rice crisis: Thai benchmark tops $1,000/ton 2008-04 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10 Three Mile Island partial meltdown 1979-03 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 1974 sugar price spike to record 65+ cents 1974-11 Nixon Shock 1971-08
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+5.0% · 5d +8.1%63%19 0.23·
Gold XAUSHORT-1.3% · 5d -0.6%61%18 0.21✓ matches cascade
SOL SOLLONG+5.4% · 5d -3.0% ↺ fades62%8 0.17⚠ differs
XLK XLKLONG+0.8% · 5d -0.9% ↺ fades61%18 0.17⚠ differs
NDX NDXLONG+0.6% · 5d -0.9% ↺ fades59%20 0.12⚠ differs
SMH SMHLONG+0.6% · 5d -0.8% ↺ fades56%18 0.09⚠ differs
High-yield credit HYGLONG+0.1% · 5d +0.1%56%18 0.08·
30y yield DGS30LONG+5bp · 5d +2bp52%27 0.03✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10LONG+3bp · 5d +2bp52%29 0.03✓ matches cascade
WHEAT WHEATLONG+0.2% · 5d -3.3% ↺ fades50%18 0.00✓ matches cascade
CORN CORNSHORT-0.1% · 5d -1.4%39%18 0.00⚠ differs
ETH ETHLONG+3.8% · 5d -2.2% ↺ fades40%10 0.00⚠ differs
MSTR MSTRSHORT-1.2% · 5d -1.8%50%18 0.00✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCLONG+4.0% · 5d -1.3% ↺ fades50%12 0.00⚠ differs

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.