What if long-run inflation expectations drift higher and central-bank credibility erodes?
Long-run inflation expectations drift higher as fiscal dominance fears grow, steepening nominal curves and pressuring central-bank credibility.
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. Long-run inflation expectations drift higher as fiscal dominance fears grow, steepening nominal curves and pressuring central-bank credibility. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Yield-curve slope ▲ · Inflation expectations ▲ · 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 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -1.1% hist -0.81–-0.23% · other way -0.47% (n=12) |
| 2 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -1.1% hist -3.32–+5.13% · other way +31.9% (n=12) |
| 3 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.9% hist -0.59–-0.31% · other way -0.56% (n=12) |
| 4 | 30y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chart | Rate | ▲ +8bp hist +0.08–+11.3% · other way +5.4% (n=12) |
| 5 | Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Commodity | ▼ -0.8% hist -0.58–+0.05% · other way +0.47% (n=12) |
| 6 | 10y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chart | Rate | ▲ +8bp hist +0.68–+8.79% · other way +6.3% (n=12) |
| 7 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.6% hist -1.89–+0.41% · other way -0.48% (n=12) |
| 8 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.6% hist -0.7–+0.71% · other way +7.54% (n=12) |
| 9 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▼ -0.5% model prior · unmeasured |
| 10 | Arm ARMon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.5% hist -7.5–+1.5% · other way +0.73% (n=11) |
| 11 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.5% hist -3.43–+1.01% · other way +4.46% (n=12) |
| 12 | Homebuilders XHB 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.4% hist -0.41–+0.14% · other way -0.42% (n=12) |
| 13 | Robinhood HOODon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.4% hist -2.33–+4.99% · other way +19.04% (n=12) |
| 14 | S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.4% hist -0.79–+0.15% · other way +1.48% (n=12) |
Probable recommendation
Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did
Across 40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD AMD | SHORT | -2.1% · 5d -1.3% | 71% | 37 | 0.32 | ✓ matches cascade |
| XLF XLF | LONG | +0.9% · 5d -0.0% ↺ fades | 68% | 36 | 0.31 | ✓ matches cascade |
| JPM JPM | LONG | +1.6% · 5d +0.3% | 69% | 37 | 0.30 | ✓ matches cascade |
| ARM ARM | SHORT | -6.3% · 5d -6.7% | 69% | 26 | 0.29 | ✓ matches cascade |
| 30y yield DGS30 | LONG | +6bp · 5d +2bp | 58% | 40 | 0.16 | ✓ matches cascade |
| ETH ETH | SHORT | -3.0% · 5d -4.3% | 60% | 36 | 0.14 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Volatility VIX | LONG | +3.5% · 5d +6.3% | 57% | 36 | 0.13 | ✓ matches cascade |
| MU MU | SHORT | -0.8% · 5d -2.0% | 57% | 36 | 0.12 | ✓ matches cascade |
| SOL SOL | SHORT | -1.5% · 5d -6.4% | 58% | 35 | 0.11 | ✓ matches cascade |
| HOOD HOOD | LONG | +5.0% · 5d +0.3% | 55% | 35 | 0.09 | ⚠ differs |
| 10y yield DGS10 | LONG | +4bp · 5d +2bp | 54% | 40 | 0.08 | ✓ matches cascade |
| COIN COIN | LONG | +5.4% · 5d +3.3% | 53% | 35 | 0.05 | ⚠ differs |
| Gold XAU | LONG | +0.4% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades | 53% | 36 | 0.04 | ⚠ differs |
| Bitcoin BTC | LONG | +1.0% · 5d -2.3% ↺ fades | 53% | 36 | 0.04 | ⚠ differs |