📈 Markets & Finance risk-off · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if Onshoring cost-push: pricier domestic production keeps inflation sticky?

Reshoring to higher-cost domestic plants raises structural production costs, keeping goods inflation sticky and trend inflation above the pre-pandemic norm.

17%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 17% · 90% range 6–29% · 24 analogues · measured class growth 100% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — growth ≈1.8868/yr → 100% in 3 yr100%
Analyst prior · editorial share 15% of the class15%
Pooled · weight 80%18%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)18%
Published17%

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. Reshoring to higher-cost domestic plants raises structural production costs, keeping goods inflation sticky and trend inflation above the pre-pandemic norm. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Industrial demand ▲ · Inflation expectations ▲ · Inflation surprise ▲ · 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.

MarketClassProjected move
130y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chartRate▲ +6bp
hist -1.16–+10.49% · other way +4.9% (n=12)
2Gold XAUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCommodity▼ -0.5%
hist -1.92–+0.62% · other way +1.26% (n=12)
3Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -0.81–+0.44% · other way +1.94% (n=12)
410y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chartRate▲ +5bp
hist -0.34–+8.05% · other way +4.2% (n=12)
5Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.5%
hist -0.51–+0.29% · other way +1.25% (n=12)
6MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.6%
hist -2.3–+1.1% · other way +21.27% (n=12)
7Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.5%
hist -4.48–+4.33% · other way -6.23% (n=9)
8Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.4%
model prior · unmeasured
9Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.4%
hist -3.44–+2.3% · other way +2.96% (n=9)
10Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.3%
hist -0.6–+0.12% · other way +9.98% (n=9)
11Arm ARMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -1.41–+1.16% · other way -10.85% (n=8)
12Freeport (copper) FCX 📈 chartEquity▲ +0.2%
hist -4.25–+2.46% · other way +7.57% (n=12)
13Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +0.2%
hist -3.01–+8.93% · other way -9.52% (n=12)
14Homebuilders XHB 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.87–+0.85% · other way -0.25% (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): 30y Treasury yield +6bp · Tech sector -0.5% · 10y Treasury yield +5bp · Freeport (copper) +0.2% · Homebuilders -0.2% · 2y Treasury yield +2bp

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 24 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.

Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Gold tops $4,000 and silver spikes past $50 in historic squeeze 2025-10 Gold tops $3,000 for the first time amid tariff and rate-cut fears 2025-03 Gold tops $2,500 for the first time on Fed rate-cut bets 2024-08 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 Gold closes above $2,000/oz for the first time 2020-08 February 2018 hot wage print triggers rate scare 2018-02 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 Gold futures velocity-logic flash crash 2014-01 Gold all-time peak of $1,921/oz 2011-09 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Crude oil all-time high 2008-07 Soviet August coup attempt against Gorbachev 1991-08 Chernobyl disaster 1986-04 Iran hostage crisis / US freezes Iranian assets 1979-11 Volcker Saturday Night Special 1979-10 Three Mile Island partial meltdown 1979-03 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 Nixon Shock 1971-08
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
Volatility VIXLONG+8.1% · 5d +10.6%73%15 0.40✓ matches cascade
Gold XAUSHORT-1.6% · 5d -0.5%64%14 0.27✓ matches cascade
FCX FCXSHORT-4.4% · 5d -1.7%64%14 0.22⚠ differs
NDX NDXLONG+0.5% · 5d -1.0% ↺ fades62%16 0.18⚠ differs
ETH ETHSHORT-3.3% · 5d -4.0%62%8 0.16✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-0.4% · 5d -2.9%60%10 0.16✓ matches cascade
ARM ARMLONG+1.4% · 5d -5.3% ↺ fades67%3 0.16⚠ differs
EURUSD EURUSDSHORT-1.1% · 5d -0.1%57%14 0.12✓ matches cascade
XLK XLKLONG+0.8% · 5d -0.9% ↺ fades57%14 0.11⚠ differs
SOL SOLLONG+5.1% · 5d -4.9% ↺ fades57%7 0.10⚠ differs
SPX SPXSHORT-1.4% · 5d -0.6%53%24 0.05✓ matches cascade
30y yield DGS30LONG+7bp · 5d +3bp49%23 0.00✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10LONG+5bp · 5d +2bp49%24 0.00✓ matches cascade
MSTR MSTRSHORT-2.0% · 5d -3.1%50%14 0.00✓ 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.