What if Fiscal austerity contraction: spending cuts tip growth negative?
Abrupt fiscal consolidation withdraws demand faster than the private sector can offset, pushing growth negative and the recession signal higher.
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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.
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What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Abrupt fiscal consolidation withdraws demand faster than the private sector can offset, pushing growth negative and the recession signal higher. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Consumer spending ▼ · Credit spreads ▲ · Global growth ▼ · Recession signal ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.