⚔ Geopolitics mixed · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if Friend-shoring rewires supply chains to allies?

Firms relocate production to allied hubs (India, Mexico, Vietnam, Poland), a costly but stabilizing re-wiring that supports allied EM FX and capex over time.

28%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 28% · 90% range 15–41% · 30 analogues · measured class trade_war 98% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — trade_war ≈1.3449/yr → 98% in 3 yr98%
Analyst prior · editorial share 31% of the class30%
Pooled · weight 83%29%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)29%
Published28%

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 mixed shock. Firms relocate production to allied hubs (India, Mexico, Vietnam, Poland), a costly but stabilizing re-wiring that supports allied EM FX and capex over time. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — EM currencies ▲ · Global growth ▲ · Industrial demand ▲ · Trade tension ▲ — 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
1Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.6%
hist -0.38–-0.18% · other way +1.52% (n=12)
2Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -0.32–+0.05% · other way +0.92% (n=12)
3Turkish lira TRY 📈 chartFX▲ +0.4%
hist -1.35–+0.37% · other way +0.13% (n=11)
4Alibaba BABAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.4%
hist -2.37–+1.31% · other way -3.04% (n=8)
5TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -2.02–+0.75% · other way +2.95% (n=12)
6Indian rupee INR 📈 chartFX▲ +0.3%
hist -0.61–+0.55% · other way +0.82% (n=11)
7Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.33–+0.09% · other way +1.59% (n=12)
8Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist -5.39–+1.05% · other way +7.78% (n=12)
9Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -1.03–+1.86% · other way +7.76% (n=12)
10AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.62–+0.87% · other way +4.75% (n=12)
11Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.86–+1.28% · other way -0.12% (n=8)
12Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -4.21–+1.54% · other way +6.05% (n=12)
13Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -1.01–+2.35% · other way +1.31% (n=12)
14ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -3.83–+1.83% · other way -0.96% (n=12)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
Long
For a common-man portfolio: Mixed for a typical portfolio — the move is more about rotation than direction. Favour the winners over the losers below rather than net exposure.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Turkish lira +0.4% · Indian rupee +0.3% · Tech sector -0.3% · Freeport (copper) +0.3%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 30 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.

Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Trump's 50% copper tariff sends Comex copper to a record 2025-07 Platinum hits an 11-year high on Chinese jewelry demand and deficit 2025-06 China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 Palladium jumps after US pushes G7 sanctions on Russian metal 2024-10 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 Nikkei 225 record single-day rebound 2024-08 India slashes gold import duty from 15% to 6% in 2024 budget 2024-07 Gold closes above $2,000/oz for the first time 2020-08 Chinese yuan breaks 7 per dollar; US names China manipulator 2019-08 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 Mexican peso crash on Trump 2016 win 2016-11 Gold futures velocity-logic flash crash 2014-01 Gold all-time peak of $1,921/oz 2011-09 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Silver hits 30-year high as JPMorgan and HSBC face manipulation suits 2010-10 2008 global rice crisis: Thai benchmark tops $1,000/ton 2008-04 Chernobyl disaster 1986-04 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10 Three Mile Island partial meltdown 1979-03 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Nixon Shock 1971-08 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962-10 Smoot-Hawley clears the US House 1929-05
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
INTC INTCSHORT-5.5% · 5d -2.5%74%22 0.44✓ matches cascade
FCX FCXSHORT-4.6% · 5d -1.3%74%19 0.39⚠ differs
TRY TRYSHORT-1.3% · 5d +0.7% ↺ fades74%19 0.36⚠ differs
QCOM QCOMSHORT-3.2% · 5d -3.0%69%19 0.28✓ matches cascade
MRVL MRVLLONG+2.3% · 5d -0.6% ↺ fades62%19 0.18⚠ differs
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.4% · 5d -0.1%62%19 0.17·
MU MUSHORT-3.8% · 5d -0.3%57%21 0.12✓ matches cascade
SMH SMHLONG+0.2% · 5d -0.7% ↺ fades56%19 0.10⚠ differs
NVDA NVDALONG+2.0% · 5d -1.6% ↺ fades56%19 0.09⚠ differs
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-0.1% · 5d -1.3%55%14 0.08·
AVGO AVGOLONG+1.4% · 5d -2.1% ↺ fades54%18 0.07⚠ differs
10y yield DGS10LONG+3bp · 5d +3bp53%28 0.07·
TSM TSMSHORT-1.8% · 5d -2.2%54%19 0.06✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+4.5% · 5d -2.2% ↺ fades52%20 0.04·

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.