📈 Markets & Finance mixed · 0–6 months
A what‑if from the future

What if OBBBA repeals US clean-energy credits: fossils favored?

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act guts IRA clean-energy tax credits, lifting near-term oil and gas demand expectations and re-rating XLE higher while solar/wind names sell off.

16%
our model probability
over 0–6 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 16% · 90% range 0–34% · 32 analogues · measured class deflation 18% in 6 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — deflation ≈0.3895/yr → 18% in 6 mo18%
Analyst prior · editorial share 100% of the class22%
Pooled · weight 84%16%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)16%
Published16%

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 mixed shock. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act guts IRA clean-energy tax credits, lifting near-term oil and gas demand expectations and re-rating XLE higher while solar/wind names sell off. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Clean-energy abundance ▼ · Inflation expectations ▲ · Oil 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
1Energy sector XLEon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.4%
hist +0.26–+1.39% · other way -2.93% (n=11)
2WTI crude CLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +1.2%
hist -0.33–+2.28% · other way -3.69% (n=11)
3ExxonMobil XOM 📈 chartEquity▲ +1.1%
hist +0.38–+0.67% · other way -3.14% (n=12)
4Brent crude BRENTon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▲ +1.1%
hist +0.31–+0.89% · other way -3.33% (n=11)
5United Airlines UAL 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.7%
hist -4.54–+16.84% · other way +5.8% (n=11)
6Chevron CVX 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.5%
hist -0.02–+0.43% · other way -2.21% (n=12)
7Delta DAL 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -0.81–+10.88% · other way +4.13% (n=11)
830y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▲ +3bp
hist -2.91–+14.88% · other way +2.5% (n=12)
910y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▲ +2bp
hist -3.95–+10.94% · other way +1.4% (n=12)
10Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.39–+0.07% · other way +0.64% (n=11)
112y 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
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): ExxonMobil +1.1% · United Airlines -0.7% · Chevron +0.5% · Delta -0.6% · 30y Treasury yield +3bp · 10y Treasury yield +2bp

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 32 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.

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AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
DAL DALLONG+8.6% · 5d +2.6%78%22 0.54⚠ differs
UAL UALLONG+15.0% · 5d +1.4%65%23 0.30⚠ differs
30y yield DGS30LONG+12bp · 5d +5bp65%31 0.28✓ matches cascade
Volatility VIXSHORT-4.8% · 5d -4.3%69%26 0.28·
US dollar DXYLONG+0.2% · 5d -0.1% ↺ fades56%32 0.11·
Bitcoin BTCLONG+7.4% · 5d -1.2% ↺ fades54%15 0.07·
XLE XLELONG+0.5% · 5d -0.4% ↺ fades52%24 0.04✓ matches cascade
XOM XOMSHORT-0.0% · 5d -1.0%52%32 0.04⚠ differs
CL CLLONG+1.5% · 5d -1.3% ↺ fades41%24 0.00✓ matches cascade
BRENT BRENTLONG+0.2% · 5d -1.7% ↺ fades44%22 0.00✓ matches cascade
CVX CVXSHORT-0.2% · 5d -0.9%49%32 0.00⚠ differs
10y yield DGS10LONG+9bp · 5d +4bp49%32 0.00✓ matches cascade
Gold XAUSHORT-0.3% · 5d -0.4%48%24 0.00✓ matches cascade
High-yield credit HYGLONG+0.7% · 5d -0.3% ↺ fades42%22 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.