🏛 Central Banks & Macro risk-off · 0–6 months
A what‑if from the future

What if Monsoon failure spikes India food inflation and stalls cuts?

A deficient monsoon drives vegetable and cereal prices sharply higher, pushing CPI above the RBI's tolerance band; the central bank holds rates, hurting rate-sensitive equities and the bond rally.

29%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 29% · 90% range 16–42% · 40 analogues · measured class inflation 94% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — inflation ≈5.6856/yr → 94% in 6 mo94%
Analyst prior · editorial share 34% of the class32%
Pooled · weight 87%30%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)30%
Published29%

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 0–6 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 risk-off shock. A deficient monsoon drives vegetable and cereal prices sharply higher, pushing CPI above the RBI's tolerance band; the central bank holds rates, hurting rate-sensitive equities and the bond rally. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Consumer spending ▼ · Food inflation ▲ · Inflation surprise ▲ · 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
1Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.5%
hist -1.83–+0.45% · other way -0.48% (n=12)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.5%
hist -0.3–-0.14% · other way -0.56% (n=12)
3MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -3.11–+5.49% · other way +31.9% (n=12)
4Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.4%
model prior · unmeasured
5Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.4%
hist -3.39–+1.03% · other way +4.46% (n=12)
6Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.3%
hist -0.29–+0.07% · other way -0.47% (n=12)
7Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +0.3%
hist -1.34–+3.84% · other way -1.26% (n=12)
8Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.3%
hist -0.59–+0.9% · other way +7.54% (n=12)
9Turkish lira TRY 📈 chartFX▼ -0.2%
hist -3.53–+1.38% · other way -0.47% (n=12)
1030y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▲ +2bp
hist -1.83–+8.11% · other way +5.4% (n=12)
11Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.23–+0.27% · other way +0.47% (n=12)
1210y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▲ +2bp
hist -1.21–+5.63% · other way +6.3% (n=12)
13Indian rupee INR 📈 chartFX▼ -0.2%
hist -0.19–-0.01% · other way -0.1% (n=12)
142y Treasury yield DGS2Rate▲ +1bp
model prior · unmeasured

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 -0.3% · Turkish lira -0.2% · 30y Treasury yield +2bp · 10y Treasury yield +2bp · Indian rupee -0.2% · 2y Treasury yield +1bp

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.

August 2022 hot CPI 2022-09 Powell's hawkish 'pain' speech at Jackson Hole 2022-08 Turkish lira record low on rate cuts 2021-11 February 2018 hot wage print triggers rate scare 2018-02 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 Iranian rial slides to a new record low 2025-12 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 H5N1 bird flu record US egg prices 2025-04 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 Tesla shares crater on DOGE political backlash and Europe sales collapse 2025-03 TSMC slumps as DeepSeek roils AI-chip demand assumptions 2025-02 Micron's weak FQ2 guidance sparks a sharp December selloff 2024-12 Nasdaq Composite first close above 20000 2024-12 Henry Hub natural gas falls to an all-time inflation-adjusted low on record output 2024-11 ASML bookings-miss crash 2024-10 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 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 Nikkei 225 worst single-day crash since 1987 2024-08 KOSPI biggest-ever point loss triggers circuit breaker 2024-08 VIX third-highest spike on record 2024-08 Intel's Q2 earnings trigger its worst single-day crash since 1974 2024-08 Megacap AI-capex doubt selloff 2024-07 Trump 'Taiwan should pay for defense' chip selloff 2024-07 Homebuilders rally as cool June CPI fuels rate-cut bets 2024-07 USD/JPY hits a 38-year high before a CPI-driven intervention 2024-07 India's Modi loses single-party majority 2024-06 Mexico's Sheinbaum landslide + supermajority scare 2024-06 Hot January CPI delays Fed-cut hopes 2024-02 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06 Turkish lira hits record low after Erdogan re-election 2023-05 First Republic Bank seized and sold to JPMorgan 2023-05 Regional-bank panic deepens after Signature seizure 2023-03 India Adani-Hindenburg rout 2023-01 Solana craters toward $8 on FTX/Alameda overhang 2022-12
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
30y yield DGS30LONG+6bp · 5d +2bp58%40 0.16✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-3.0% · 5d -4.3%60%36 0.14✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+3.5% · 5d +6.3%57%36 0.13✓ matches cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-1.5% · 5d -6.4%58%35 0.11✓ matches cascade
INR INRSHORT-0.1% · 5d +0.3% ↺ fades57%36 0.11✓ matches cascade
TRY TRYSHORT-3.3% · 5d +0.5% ↺ fades55%36 0.10✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10LONG+4bp · 5d +2bp54%40 0.08✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCLONG+1.0% · 5d -2.3% ↺ fades53%36 0.04⚠ differs
Gold XAULONG+0.4% · 5d -0.5% ↺ fades53%36 0.04⚠ differs
NDX NDXLONG+0.0% · 5d -0.8% ↺ fades45%36 0.00⚠ differs
MSTR MSTRLONG+5.7% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades50%36 0.00⚠ differs
XLK XLKLONG+0.2% · 5d -0.7% ↺ fades50%36 0.00⚠ differs
US dollar DXYLONG+0.0% · 5d +0.2%46%40 0.00·
High-yield credit HYGLONG+0.2% · 5d +0.3%45%36 0.00·

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.