What if Fed wage-spiral fear forces a hawkish hold despite cooling CPI?
Sticky wage growth keeps the Fed restrictive even as headline inflation eases, frustrating cut bets; real yields stay elevated and rate-sensitive risk lags on the wage-driven hawkish hold.
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 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.
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Sticky wage growth keeps the Fed restrictive even as headline inflation eases, frustrating cut bets; real yields stay elevated and rate-sensitive risk lags on the wage-driven hawkish hold. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — US dollar (DXY) ▲ · Fed policy path ▲ · Labor shortage ▲ · 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 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -1.0% hist -0.84–-0.38% · other way -0.06% (n=12) |
| 2 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -1.1% hist -8.69–+2.83% · other way +1.21% (n=12) |
| 3 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.9% hist -0.83–-0.27% · other way +0.48% (n=12) |
| 4 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.9% hist -4.14–+2.94% · other way -5.89% (n=6) |
| 5 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▼ -0.7% model prior · unmeasured |
| 6 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.7% hist -4.25–+2.68% · other way +2.19% (n=6) |
| 7 | Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.6% hist -2.6–+1.15% · other way -0.8% (n=11) |
| 8 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.6% hist -7.68–+4.35% · other way -3.72% (n=7) |
| 9 | 30y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chart | Rate | ▲ +5bp hist -2.56–+23.3% · other way +13.0% (n=12) |
| 10 | S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.5% hist -2.34–+0.61% · other way +3.37% (n=12) |
| 11 | 10y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chart | Rate | ▲ +5bp hist -5.6–+19.5% · other way +16.9% (n=12) |
| 12 | US dollar (DXY) DXYon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | FX | ▲ +0.4% hist -0.16–+0.95% · other way -0.11% (n=12) |
| 13 | Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Vol | ▲ +0.4% hist -3.92–+3.05% · other way -5.12% (n=12) |
| 14 | EUR/USD EURUSDon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | FX | ▼ -0.4% hist -1.29–+0.44% · other way +0.91% (n=9) |
Probable recommendation
Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did
Across 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CNY CNY | SHORT | -0.8% · 5d -0.2% | 77% | 12 | 0.50 | ✓ matches cascade |
| SMH SMH | SHORT | -1.9% · 5d -1.6% | 81% | 12 | 0.46 | ✓ matches cascade |
| MSTR MSTR | SHORT | -7.6% · 5d -6.5% | 81% | 12 | 0.42 | ✓ matches cascade |
| 30y yield DGS30 | LONG | +18bp · 5d +4bp | 70% | 20 | 0.39 | ✓ matches cascade |
| GBPUSD GBPUSD | SHORT | -1.2% · 5d -0.4% | 69% | 12 | 0.32 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Bitcoin BTC | SHORT | -7.5% · 5d -8.3% | 68% | 10 | 0.30 | ✓ matches cascade |
| XLK XLK | SHORT | -0.2% · 5d -0.9% | 69% | 12 | 0.26 | ✓ matches cascade |
| NVDA NVDA | SHORT | -7.6% · 5d -7.8% | 65% | 12 | 0.24 | ✓ matches cascade |
| EURUSD EURUSD | SHORT | -1.0% · 5d -0.2% | 65% | 12 | 0.23 | ✓ matches cascade |
| KRW KRW | LONG | +0.3% · 5d +0.8% | 65% | 12 | 0.20 | ⚠ differs |
| Gold XAU | SHORT | -2.2% · 5d -2.1% | 62% | 12 | 0.18 | ✓ matches cascade |
| USDJPY USDJPY | LONG | +1.1% · 5d +0.0% | 62% | 12 | 0.18 | ✓ matches cascade |
| High-yield credit HYG | LONG | +0.1% · 5d +0.5% | 62% | 11 | 0.18 | ⚠ differs |
| SPX SPX | SHORT | -1.9% · 5d -1.9% | 59% | 21 | 0.17 | ✓ matches cascade |