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

What if the euro area suffers a 6% GDP drop while inflation stays near 10%?

The EBA/ESRB 2023 adverse scenario crystallises: euro-area real GDP falls 6.0% cumulative while HICP stays near 9.7%, the deepest combined growth-inflation shock in the test's history.

10%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 10% · 90% range 1–18% · 26 analogues · measured class energy 99% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — energy ≈1.4869/yr → 99% in 3 yr99%
Analyst prior · editorial share 7% of the class7%
Pooled · weight 81%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 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 risk-off shock. The EBA/ESRB 2023 adverse scenario crystallises: euro-area real GDP falls 6.0% cumulative while HICP stays near 9.7%, the deepest combined growth-inflation shock in the test's history. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — European energy ▲ · Inflation surprise ▲ · 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▼ -2.2%
hist -4.34–+3.36% · other way +29.33% (n=12)
2Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.8%
hist -2.33–-0.64% · other way +0.52% (n=12)
3Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -1.6%
hist -1.06–-0.56% · other way -0.46% (n=12)
4Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -1.5%
model prior · unmeasured
5Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.3%
hist -2.41–+1.1% · other way +5.46% (n=12)
6Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.3%
hist -3.41–+2.99% · other way +8.73% (n=12)
7Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.3%
hist -1.41–+0.54% · other way -0.47% (n=12)
8Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +1.1%
hist -3.66–+3.12% · other way -6.72% (n=12)
9S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.9%
hist -2.54–+0.54% · other way +0.43% (n=12)
10Financials XLF 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.8%
hist -0.72–-0.28% · other way +0.73% (n=12)
11Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.8%
hist -9.95–+19.61% · other way +23.47% (n=12)
12High-yield credit HYG 📈 chartRate▼ -0.7%
hist -0.89–+0.14% · other way -0.45% (n=12)
13Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -0.99–+0.97% · other way -0.14% (n=12)
14JPMorgan JPM 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -1.37–+0.34% · other way +1.55% (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): Tech sector -1.3% · Financials -0.8% · High-yield credit -0.7% · JPMorgan -0.4% · 30y Treasury yield +3bp · Aussie dollar -0.3%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 26 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.

1990-91 recession onset 1990-07 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 1973-75 recession onset 1973-11 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 Henry Hub natural gas falls to an all-time inflation-adjusted low on record output 2024-11 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 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 European gas crisis intraday record spike 2021-10 WTI crude futures settle negative as demand collapses 2020-04 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 February 2018 hot wage print triggers rate scare 2018-02 China-led global 'Black Monday' rout 2015-08 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 Greek sovereign debt crisis / first EU-IMF bailout 2010-05 Oil collapses from $147 to the $30s as the GFC craters demand 2008-12 ECB's ill-timed pre-crisis rate hike 2008-07 Argentina hyperinflation peak / Alfonsin early handover 1989-07 1986 oil price collapse bottoms below $10 a barrel 1986-07 1986 oil price collapse 1986-02 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 1976 UK sterling crisis / IMF bailout 1976-09
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
COIN COINLONG+19.6% · 5d +8.3%86%7 0.63⚠ differs
AUD AUDSHORT-1.4% · 5d -0.3%80%15 0.55✓ matches cascade
ARM ARMSHORT-7.7% · 5d -4.8%100%3 0.55✓ matches cascade
EURUSD EURUSDSHORT-0.8% · 5d -0.2%80%15 0.51✓ matches cascade
HOOD HOODLONG+7.3% · 5d +1.3%71%7 0.38⚠ differs
CL CLSHORT-0.7% · 5d -2.1%67%15 0.31✓ matches cascade
INR INRSHORT-0.4% · 5d +0.5% ↺ fades67%15 0.27✓ matches cascade
Gold XAUSHORT-0.7% · 5d -1.6%67%15 0.27✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYLONG+0.6% · 5d +0.7%64%26 0.27✓ matches cascade
AMD AMDSHORT-4.2% · 5d -0.8%66%20 0.26✓ matches cascade
MRVL MRVLLONG+3.3% · 5d +0.4%67%15 0.26⚠ differs
AVGO AVGOLONG+3.5% · 5d -1.1% ↺ fades62%13 0.19⚠ differs
XLU XLUSHORT-2.7% · 5d -1.6%60%15 0.19⚠ differs
NVDA NVDALONG+0.1% · 5d -3.6% ↺ fades60%15 0.16⚠ 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.