What if the Fed's operating losses halt Treasury remittances and spark political conflict?
Mounting Fed operating losses on its portfolio halt Treasury remittances for an extended period, drawing political fire and raising fiscal-monetary tensions.
how we built this number — every step
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.
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Mounting Fed operating losses on its portfolio halt Treasury remittances for an extended period, drawing political fire and raising fiscal-monetary tensions. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Dollar/reserve confidence ▼ · Inflation expectations ▲ · Real yields ▲ · 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.
| Market | Class | Projected move | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +1.9% hist -0.65–+3.55% · other way +31.9% (n=12) |
| 2 | Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▲ +1.1% hist -1.73–+2.27% · other way +0.47% (n=12) |
| 3 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▲ +1.1% hist -1.71–+3.66% · other way +7.54% (n=12) |
| 4 | 30y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chart | Rate | ▲ +10bp hist -8.25–+28.82% · other way +5.4% (n=12) |
| 5 | 10y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chart | Rate | ▲ +9bp hist -7.45–+23.4% · other way +6.3% (n=12) |
| 6 | US dollar (DXY) DXYon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.7% hist -1.0–+0.37% · other way +0.47% (n=12) |
| 7 | Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▲ +0.8% hist -6.32–+7.84% · other way +22.86% (n=12) |
| 8 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.7% hist -1.21–+0.02% · other way -0.47% (n=12) |
| 9 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.7% hist -1.02–+0.21% · other way -0.56% (n=12) |
| 10 | EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +0.7% hist -0.64–+1.13% · other way -0.56% (n=12) |
| 11 | S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.4% hist -2.05–+1.13% · other way +1.48% (n=12) |
| 12 | GBP/USD GBPUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +0.5% hist -1.76–+0.91% · other way -0.74% (n=12) |
| 13 | Turkish lira TRY 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +0.6% hist -7.99–+8.72% · other way -0.47% (n=12) |
| 14 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▲ +0.4% hist +0.18–+0.48% · other way -0.48% (n=12) |
Probable recommendation
Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did
Across 13 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.
| Asset | History says | Abnormal (20d · 5d) | Hit | n | Confidence | vs cascade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GBPUSD GBPUSD | SHORT | -1.9% · 5d -0.3% | 100% | 5 | 0.78 | ⚠ differs |
| CNY CNY | SHORT | -1.4% · 5d -0.2% | 80% | 5 | 0.51 | ⚠ differs |
| Gold XAU | SHORT | -2.5% · 5d -1.8% | 80% | 5 | 0.45 | ⚠ differs |
| INR INR | SHORT | -1.1% · 5d +0.6% ↺ fades | 80% | 5 | 0.45 | ⚠ differs |
| EURUSD EURUSD | SHORT | -1.1% · 5d -0.0% | 80% | 5 | 0.39 | ⚠ differs |
| 30y yield DGS30 | LONG | +22bp · 5d +4bp | 70% | 11 | 0.36 | ✓ matches cascade |
| NDX NDX | LONG | +0.6% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades | 67% | 6 | 0.21 | ⚠ differs |
| USDJPY USDJPY | LONG | +1.9% · 5d +0.6% | 60% | 5 | 0.17 | ⚠ differs |
| XHB XHB | SHORT | -0.9% · 5d -0.1% | 60% | 5 | 0.17 | ✓ matches cascade |
| US dollar DXY | LONG | +0.8% · 5d +0.7% | 60% | 12 | 0.16 | ⚠ differs |
| AUD AUD | SHORT | -0.3% · 5d +0.6% ↺ fades | 60% | 5 | 0.15 | ⚠ differs |
| Volatility VIX | SHORT | -6.0% · 5d +30.2% ↺ fades | 60% | 5 | 0.15 | · |
| Bitcoin BTC | LONG | +2.8% · 5d -4.0% ↺ fades | 60% | 5 | 0.13 | ✓ matches cascade |
| MSTR MSTR | SHORT | -2.0% · 5d -1.7% | 60% | 5 | 0.12 | ⚠ differs |