⚔ Geopolitics risk-off · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if tariffs and export curbs on medical devices and generics expose pandemic-era supply concentration?

Tariffs and export curbs on medical devices, PPE and generics expose pandemic-era supply concentration, raising healthcare costs and shortage risk.

13%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 13% · 90% range 4–23% · 40 analogues · measured class trade_war 87% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — trade_war ≈1.3449/yr → 87% in 18 mo87%
Analyst prior · editorial share 15% of the class13%
Pooled · weight 87%14%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)14%
Published13%

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 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. 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. Tariffs and export curbs on medical devices, PPE and generics expose pandemic-era supply concentration, raising healthcare costs and shortage risk. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Geopolitical risk ▲ · Inflation surprise ▲ · Recession signal ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ · Trade tension ▲ — 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
1Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +5.5%
hist +0.9–+5.44% · other way -1.32% (n=12)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -3.8%
hist -2.4–-1.39% · other way -0.5% (n=12)
3Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.5%
hist -1.68–-0.08% · other way +1.31% (n=12)
4Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.7%
hist -1.59–-0.33% · other way -0.4% (n=12)
5Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.0%
hist -1.88–-0.31% · other way +2.98% (n=12)
6TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.9%
hist -2.33–-0.11% · other way +1.77% (n=12)
7AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.6%
hist -1.52–-0.26% · other way -0.22% (n=12)
8Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.6%
hist -1.62–+2.55% · other way -2.27% (n=12)
9Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.6%
hist -1.55–-0.36% · other way +2.6% (n=12)
10Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.6%
hist -1.35–-0.39% · other way +1.33% (n=12)
11Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.5%
hist -2.04–+1.19% · other way -2.37% (n=12)
12MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.6%
hist -2.03–+2.21% · other way +30.6% (n=12)
13ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.5%
hist -2.19–+0.09% · other way -2.87% (n=12)
14S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -1.3%
hist -2.28–+0.22% · other way +1.2% (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 gold hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector -2.7% · Chinese yuan -0.8% · High-yield credit -0.8% · Financials -0.6% · Aussie dollar -0.5% · JPMorgan -0.4%

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.

China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Chinese yuan breaks 7 per dollar; US names China manipulator 2019-08 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Smoot-Hawley clears the US House 1929-05 US-China extend tariff truce by another 90 days 2025-08 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 US and China agree Geneva tariff truce, slashing rates 2025-05 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06 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 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 Bitcoin Cash hash war capitulation 2018-11 US List 3 tariffs on $200B of Chinese goods finalized 2018-09 US Section 301 List 1 tariffs take effect on China 2018-07 China retaliates: $50B tariff list incl. soybeans 2018-04 US Section 232 steel & aluminum tariffs imposed 2018-03 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 Mexican peso crash on Trump 2016 win 2016-11 China-led global 'Black Monday' rout 2015-08 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Greek sovereign debt crisis / first EU-IMF bailout 2010-05 US airline stocks plunge ~40% on first trading day after 9/11 2001-09 Hong Kong defends the peg with sky-high HIBOR 1997-10 US-Japan auto trade war: 100% luxury-car tariff threat 1995-05 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 1990-91 recession onset 1990-07 Tiananmen Square crackdown 1989-06 US-Japan Semiconductor Trade Arrangement signed 1986-09 1986 oil price collapse 1986-02 Japan agrees to auto voluntary export restraints 1981-05 Reagan assassination attempt 1981-03 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Volcker 'Saturday Night Special' 1979-10
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
COIN COINLONG+16.1% · 5d +5.8%82%10 0.56⚠ differs
TRY TRYSHORT-2.8% · 5d +0.4% ↺ fades74%25 0.45✓ matches cascade
SOL SOLLONG+2.1% · 5d -10.1% ↺ fades73%10 0.29⚠ differs
AUD AUDSHORT-1.2% · 5d -0.3%68%25 0.28✓ matches cascade
XCU XCUSHORT-0.9% · 5d -0.5%67%26 0.27✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-4.8% · 5d -7.0%67%18 0.26✓ matches cascade
CNY CNYSHORT-0.7% · 5d -0.2%64%26 0.26✓ matches cascade
BABA BABASHORT-2.5% · 5d -2.6%65%23 0.25✓ matches cascade
INR INRSHORT-0.6% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades62%25 0.21✓ matches cascade
AVGO AVGOLONG+3.1% · 5d -1.6% ↺ fades60%25 0.20⚠ differs
KWEB KWEBSHORT-2.2% · 5d -0.9%61%23 0.18✓ matches cascade
NVDA NVDASHORT-0.8% · 5d -3.3%62%26 0.17✓ matches cascade
AMD AMDSHORT-0.6% · 5d -0.5%61%36 0.17✓ matches cascade
INTC INTCSHORT-1.3% · 5d -1.3%60%36 0.17✓ 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.