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

What if German fiscal bazooka funds Ukraine and rearmament?

Berlin extends its debt-brake exemption to bankroll Ukraine support and Bundeswehr expansion, steepening the Bund curve and lifting DAX industrials and defense.

18%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 18% · 90% range 5–30% · 34 analogues · measured class defense 84% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — defense ≈1.2155/yr → 84% in 18 mo84%
Analyst prior · editorial share 21% of the class18%
Pooled · weight 85%18%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)18%
Published18%

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 mixed shock. Berlin extends its debt-brake exemption to bankroll Ukraine support and Bundeswehr expansion, steepening the Bund curve and lifting DAX industrials and defense. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Yield-curve slope ▲ · Defense spending ▲ · Industrial demand ▲ · 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.

MarketClassProjected move
1Lockheed LMT 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.1%
hist +0.32–+0.85% · other way +1.41% (n=12)
2Northrop NOC 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.0%
hist -1.82–+0.54% · other way +2.56% (n=12)
3RTX RTXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.8%
hist -0.59–+0.71% · other way +0.53% (n=12)
4Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.4%
hist -0.33–+1.03% · other way +1.0% (n=6)
5Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▲ +0.3%
model prior · unmeasured
6Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist -0.41–+0.38% · other way +1.38% (n=12)
7Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.3%
hist -1.19–+2.22% · other way -6.18% (n=7)
8MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.3%
hist -4.14–+9.08% · other way -4.79% (n=12)
9Financials XLF 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.2%
hist -0.13–+0.21% · other way -1.27% (n=12)
10Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▲ +0.2%
hist +0.07–+0.14% · other way +0.9% (n=12)
11Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▲ +0.2%
hist -0.51–+1.75% · other way -0.52% (n=8)
12Copper XCUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.1%
hist -0.65–+0.4% · other way -3.97% (n=12)
13Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.1%
hist -0.02–+0.24% · other way +0.8% (n=12)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
Short
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): Lockheed +1.1% · Northrop +1.0% · Freeport (copper) +0.3% · Financials +0.2% · Tech sector +0.1%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 34 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.

Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Platinum hits an 11-year high on Chinese jewelry demand and deficit 2025-06 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 Operation Sindoor: India strikes Pakistan after Pahalgam attack 2025-05 China retaliates to Liberation Day: 34% tariffs + rare-earth controls 2025-04 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Palladium jumps after US pushes G7 sanctions on Russian metal 2024-10 Israel kills Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut strike 2024-09 Hezbollah pager and device explosions across Lebanon 2024-09 Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russian refineries, lifting crude and gasoline 2024-03 RTX takes $3B charge on Pratt & Whitney GTF engine flaw 2023-09 Niger coup d'etat 2023-07 Tin hits nominal record on LME above $48,000/t 2022-03 Burkina Faso coup d'etat 2022-01 Mali coup d'etat 2020-08 India's Balakot airstrike inside Pakistan 2019-02 Pulwama attack ignites India-Pakistan crisis 2019-02 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Silver hits 30-year high as JPMorgan and HSBC face manipulation suits 2010-10 Iraq invasion 2003 relief rally 2003-03 2001 Indian Parliament attack 2001-12 Kargil War begins 1999-05 Hong Kong HKMA market intervention against speculators 1998-08 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis 1996-03 Black Wednesday / ERM crisis 1992-09 Operation Desert Storm begins 1991-01 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979-12 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962-10
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
10y yield DGS10LONG+22bp · 5d +11bp72%33 0.42·
NOC NOCSHORT-1.8% · 5d -0.8%73%29 0.39⚠ differs
US dollar DXYLONG+0.1% · 5d +0.1%69%33 0.31·
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.8% · 5d -0.3%71%21 0.31·
Bitcoin BTCLONG+1.5% · 5d -2.5% ↺ fades63%19 0.20✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+4.7% · 5d -0.9% ↺ fades59%29 0.15·
RTX RTXSHORT-1.0% · 5d -1.3%57%33 0.13⚠ differs
Gold XAUSHORT-0.2% · 5d -1.2%57%23 0.11·
FCX FCXSHORT-0.6% · 5d -2.6%54%26 0.06⚠ differs
XLF XLFSHORT-0.2% · 5d -0.3%54%24 0.06⚠ differs
XLK XLKLONG+0.1% · 5d -0.6% ↺ fades54%24 0.06✓ matches cascade
XCU XCUSHORT-0.7% · 5d -1.4%52%23 0.04⚠ differs
MSTR MSTRLONG+8.7% · 5d -4.0% ↺ fades52%25 0.03✓ matches cascade
LMT LMTLONG+0.2% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades42%33 0.00✓ matches cascade

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.