What if Remittance-dependent EM FX wobble on US labor crackdown?
A broad US enforcement push cuts remittance flows to high-dependency economies like the Philippines and Nepal, pressuring their currencies and external buffers as a key dollar source dries up.
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 (electric blue) over time vs the market's (Polymarket, amber), 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. Loading the probability audit trail…
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. A broad US enforcement push cuts remittance flows to high-dependency economies like the Philippines and Nepal, pressuring their currencies and external buffers as a key dollar source dries up. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — EM currencies ▼ · Credit spreads ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.