🏛 Central Banks & Macro risk-off · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if simultaneous energy and food supply shocks deliver a textbook stagflationary hit to the euro area?

Simultaneous energy and food supply shocks deliver a textbook stagflationary hit to the euro area, lifting HICP while compressing real incomes and industrial output together.

12%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 12% · 90% range 1–22% · 26 analogues · measured class energy 89% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — energy ≈1.4869/yr → 89% in 18 mo89%
Analyst prior · editorial share 11% of the class10%
Pooled · weight 81%12%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)12%
Published12%

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. Simultaneous energy and food supply shocks deliver a textbook stagflationary hit to the euro area, lifting HICP while compressing real incomes and industrial output together. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — European energy ▲ · Food inflation ▲ · Inflation surprise ▲ · 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
1MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.8%
hist -3.47–+4.16% · other way +29.33% (n=12)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.6%
hist -0.39–-0.16% · other way -0.46% (n=12)
3Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.5%
hist -1.02–+0.14% · other way +0.52% (n=12)
4Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.5%
hist -2.95–+3.48% · other way +8.73% (n=12)
5Financials XLF 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.45–-0.12% · other way +0.73% (n=12)
6Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -0.89–+0.85% · other way -0.47% (n=12)
7Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.5%
model prior · unmeasured
8Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +0.4%
hist -4.14–+2.83% · other way -6.72% (n=12)
9Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.4%
hist -1.64–+1.56% · other way +5.46% (n=12)
10EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▼ -0.3%
hist -0.99–+0.13% · other way -0.75% (n=12)
11High-yield credit HYG 📈 chartRate▼ -0.3%
hist -0.59–+0.32% · other way -0.45% (n=12)
12Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.87–+0.23% · other way -0.69% (n=12)
13S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.3%
hist -2.18–+0.76% · other way +0.43% (n=12)
1430y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▲ +3bp
hist +0.01–+3.93% · other way +4.8% (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): Financials -0.4% · Tech sector -0.5% · High-yield credit -0.3% · 30y Treasury yield +3bp · 10y Treasury yield +3bp · Turkish lira -0.2%

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
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
CL CLSHORT-0.7% · 5d -2.1%67%15 0.31✓ matches cascade
Gold XAUSHORT-0.7% · 5d -1.6%67%15 0.27✓ matches cascade
INR INRSHORT-0.4% · 5d +0.5% ↺ fades67%15 0.27✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYLONG+0.6% · 5d +0.7%64%26 0.27·
XLK XLKLONG+1.2% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades60%15 0.15⚠ differs
Bitcoin BTCLONG+4.1% · 5d -3.1% ↺ fades58%12 0.13⚠ differs
ETH ETHLONG+2.0% · 5d -4.3% ↺ fades60%10 0.13⚠ differs
10y yield DGS10SHORT-2bp · 5d +4bp ↺ fades57%26 0.13⚠ differs
JPM JPMSHORT-1.1% · 5d -0.1%56%20 0.11✓ matches cascade
SPX SPXSHORT-1.9% · 5d -1.6%55%26 0.10✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXSHORT-4.5% · 5d +13.2% ↺ fades55%16 0.08⚠ 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.