🧠 Technology & AI risk-off · 3–10 years
A what‑if from the future

What if the EU's 2035 combustion-engine ban displaces workers faster than green jobs appear?

Fit-for-55's 2035 combustion-engine ban accelerates EU autoworker displacement, concentrating transition risk in German and Central-European manufacturing credit and regions.

13%
our model probability
over 3–10 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 13% · 90% range 4–22% · 40 analogues · measured class tech_ai_bull 94% in 10 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — tech_ai_bull ≈0.2842/yr → 94% in 10 yr94%
Analyst prior · editorial share 8% of the class8%
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 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. Fit-for-55's 2035 combustion-engine ban accelerates EU autoworker displacement, concentrating transition risk in German and Central-European manufacturing credit and regions. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Job displacement ▲ · Climate/crop supply ▲ · Credit spreads ▲ · Recession signal ▲ — 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
1High-yield credit HYG 📈 chartRate▼ -0.7%
hist -0.46–-0.13% · other way -0.4% (n=11)
2MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -4.53–+1.38% · other way +17.24% (n=11)
3Financials XLF 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -1.34–+0.21% · other way -0.29% (n=11)
4Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.5%
hist -0.49–+0.53% · other way +0.15% (n=11)
5Wheat WHEATon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.5%
hist -0.69–+2.02% · other way -3.01% (n=11)
6S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.4%
hist -0.55–-0.03% · other way -0.59% (n=12)
7Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +0.4%
hist -2.24–+5.6% · other way -6.53% (n=11)
8Corn CORNon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.4%
hist +0.13–+0.33% · other way -3.58% (n=11)
9Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.4%
hist -8.69–+3.17% · other way -9.06% (n=9)
10Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.4%
hist -0.73–+0.7% · other way +3.36% (n=9)
11JPMorgan JPM 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -1.7–+0.4% · other way +1.13% (n=11)
12Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.3%
model prior · unmeasured
13Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.59–+1.31% · other way +1.59% (n=11)
14Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.46–+0.67% · other way +0.23% (n=11)

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 -0.7% · Financials -0.5% · JPMorgan -0.3% · Tech sector -0.3%

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.

Greece first EU/IMF bailout 2010-05 Northern Rock bank run 2007-09 Chernobyl disaster 1986-04 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 TSMC slumps as DeepSeek roils AI-chip demand assumptions 2025-02 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 Weak July 2024 jobs report triggers Sahm-rule growth scare 2024-08 Megacap AI-capex doubt selloff 2024-07 Nvidia AI-guidance blowout ignites the automation/AI capex wave 2023-05 First Republic Bank seized and sold to JPMorgan 2023-05 Regional-bank panic deepens after Signature seizure 2023-03 TSMC cuts 2023 capex on chip-demand downturn 2023-01 Kaisa Group offshore default 2021-12 Gold closes above $2,000/oz for the first time 2020-08 WTI crude futures settle negative as demand collapses 2020-04 IPBES warns ~1 million species face extinction 2019-05 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 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 Gold futures velocity-logic flash crash 2014-01 Cyprus deposit bail-in 2013-03 Spain requests EUR100bn bank bailout 2012-06 Bankia nationalised in Spain's banking crisis 2012-05 Gold all-time peak of $1,921/oz 2011-09 Portugal requests EU-IMF bailout 2011-04 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Greece requests EU/IMF bailout 2010-04 Anglo Irish Bank nationalisation 2009-01 Oil collapses from $147 to the $30s as the GFC craters demand 2008-12 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac conservatorship 2008-09 IndyMac Bank seized by the Office of Thrift Supervision 2008-07 2008 global rice / food price crisis peak 2008-04 2008 global rice crisis: Thai benchmark tops $1,000/ton 2008-04 American Home Mortgage bankruptcy 2007-08 Bear Stearns freezes redemptions on subprime hedge funds 2007-06 New Century Financial bankruptcy 2007-04
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-8.0% · 5d -3.9%77%13 0.41✓ matches cascade
JPM JPMSHORT-1.4% · 5d -1.4%63%40 0.22✓ matches cascade
COIN COINSHORT-7.7% · 5d +1.7% ↺ fades64%11 0.22✓ matches cascade
XLF XLFSHORT-1.0% · 5d -1.0%62%39 0.20✓ matches cascade
SMH SMHLONG+1.3% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades59%39 0.15⚠ differs
MSTR MSTRSHORT-3.9% · 5d -2.9%59%39 0.13✓ matches cascade
NDX NDXLONG+0.8% · 5d -0.7% ↺ fades57%40 0.11⚠ differs
ETH ETHSHORT-1.5% · 5d -2.7%57%14 0.11✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+5.2% · 5d +1.5%54%39 0.07✓ matches cascade
Gold XAULONG+0.3% · 5d +0.0%54%39 0.07·
XLK XLKLONG+0.8% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades54%39 0.06⚠ differs
US dollar DXYLONG+0.4% · 5d +0.1%53%40 0.06·
CORN CORNLONG+0.1% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades51%39 0.02✓ matches cascade
High-yield credit HYGLONG+0.1% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades45%38 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.