🛢 Energy & Commodities risk-off · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if greenflation forces central banks to keep policy tight against transition-driven inflation?

A greenflation shock erupts as carbon levies and green-input scarcity feed through to consumer prices, forcing central banks to keep policy tight against transition-driven inflation.

10%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 10% · 90% range 0–21% · 19 analogues · measured class agriculture 100% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — agriculture ≈1.9132/yr → 100% in 3 yr100%
Analyst prior · editorial share 9% of the class9%
Pooled · weight 76%11%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)11%
Published10%

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 risk-off shock. A greenflation shock erupts as carbon levies and green-input scarcity feed through to consumer prices, forcing central banks to keep policy tight against transition-driven inflation. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Climate/crop supply ▲ · Fed policy path ▲ · Inflation expectations ▲ · Inflation surprise ▲ — 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
1Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.9%
hist -0.8–-0.47% · other way -0.83% (n=12)
2Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.9%
hist -1.41–+0.04% · other way +1.09% (n=11)
3Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.8%
hist -0.93–-0.22% · other way -1.18% (n=12)
4MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.0%
hist -2.66–+0.78% · other way -1.8% (n=12)
530y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▲ +8bp
hist -3.84–+21.38% · other way +3.8% (n=12)
610y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▲ +7bp
hist -2.98–+17.39% · other way +3.5% (n=12)
7Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.6%
hist -4.14–+2.61% · other way +17.82% (n=7)
8US dollar (DXY) DXYon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▲ +0.5%
hist -0.23–+1.26% · other way +0.16% (n=12)
9Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.5%
hist -1.24–+0.33% · other way -1.45% (n=8)
10Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.5%
model prior · unmeasured
112y Treasury yield DGS2Rate▲ +5bp
model prior · unmeasured
12Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.5%
hist -2.7–+2.29% · other way -3.92% (n=7)
13USD/JPY USDJPYon Hyperliquid 📈 chartFX▲ +0.5%
hist -0.41–+1.54% · other way -0.31% (n=12)
14Wheat WHEATon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +0.5%
hist -1.93–+3.12% · other way -1.45% (n=11)

Probable recommendation

If the scenario above plays out, the probable cross‑asset positioning → a scenario‑conditional read, not personalized investment advice
Cash / hedgeRaise cash and hold the long hedges above; this scenario is net risk-off.
For a common-man portfolio: A typical stock-heavy portfolio is at risk. Consider trimming equities, raising cash, and a small cash hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector -0.9% · 30y Treasury yield +8bp · 10y Treasury yield +7bp · 2y Treasury yield +5bp · Homebuilders -0.4% · Turkish lira -0.4%

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 19 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.

Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10 Fatal mud-rush halts Freeport's Grasberg, tightening copper supply 2025-09 H5N1 bird flu record US egg prices 2025-04 August 2022 hot CPI 2022-09 Powell's hawkish 'pain' speech at Jackson Hole 2022-08 May 2022 US CPI sends S&P into a bear market 2022-06 Russia central-bank reserves frozen 2022-02 Bank of England's first post-pandemic rate hike 2021-12 Fed retires 'transitory' 2021-11 Palladium breaks $2,000 for the first time on auto-demand deficit 2020-01 IPBES warns ~1 million species face extinction 2019-05 Crude oil all-time high 2008-07 ECB's ill-timed pre-crisis rate hike 2008-07 Chernobyl disaster 1986-04 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 1974 sugar price spike to record 65+ cents 1974-11 Nixon Shock 1971-08
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
ARM ARMSHORT-5.3% · 5d -2.0%100%2 0.47✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXSHORT-9.0% · 5d +0.3% ↺ fades75%12 0.43⚠ differs
USDJPY USDJPYLONG+1.2% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades75%12 0.38✓ matches cascade
TRY TRYLONG+3.2% · 5d +2.6%67%12 0.31⚠ differs
30y yield DGS30LONG+16bp · 5d +4bp66%17 0.30✓ matches cascade
GBPUSD GBPUSDSHORT-0.8% · 5d +0.4% ↺ fades67%12 0.28✓ matches cascade
NVDA NVDASHORT-8.6% · 5d -8.7%67%12 0.28✓ matches cascade
SMH SMHSHORT-1.3% · 5d -1.7%67%12 0.26✓ matches cascade
MSTR MSTRSHORT-2.0% · 5d -5.2%67%12 0.23✓ matches cascade
HOOD HOODLONG+6.3% · 5d -2.1% ↺ fades62%8 0.23⚠ differs
10y yield DGS10LONG+13bp · 5d +3bp59%19 0.17✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYLONG+0.9% · 5d +0.3%59%19 0.16✓ matches cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-3.9% · 5d -2.0%62%8 0.15✓ matches cascade
EURUSD EURUSDSHORT-1.3% · 5d +0.4% ↺ fades58%12 0.15✓ 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.