What if expanding insurance deserts freeze mortgage credit in exposed US and Australian markets?
Expanding 'insurance deserts' where catastrophe cover is unavailable depress property values and freeze mortgage credit across exposed US, Australian and southern-European markets.
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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.
Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving
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What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Expanding 'insurance deserts' where catastrophe cover is unavailable depress property values and freeze mortgage credit across exposed US, Australian and southern-European markets. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Climate/crop supply ▲ · Credit spreads ▲ · Mortgage rates ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.