🏛 Central Banks & Macro risk-off · 6–18 months
A what‑if from the future

What if the Riksbank must ease into a property downturn even as a weak krona stokes inflation?

The Riksbank is forced to ease into a property-driven downturn even as a weak krona stokes inflation, a policy bind that amplifies krona and credit-spread volatility.

11%
our model probability
over 6–18 months
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 11% · 90% range 2–20% · 36 analogues · measured class recession 94% in 18 mo · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — recession ≈1.9335/yr → 94% in 18 mo94%
Analyst prior · editorial share 12% of the class11%
Pooled · weight 86%11%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)11%
Published11%

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 6–18 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. The Riksbank is forced to ease into a property-driven downturn even as a weak krona stokes inflation, a policy bind that amplifies krona and credit-spread volatility. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Financial conditions ▲ · Inflation surprise ▲ · Recession signal ▲ · 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▼ -1.1%
hist -8.2–+5.25% · other way -2.3% (n=11)
2MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.2%
hist -5.47–+1.04% · other way +31.87% (n=12)
3Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.9%
hist -3.46–+1.8% · other way +4.16% (n=11)
4Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon HyperliquidCrypto▼ -0.9%
model prior · unmeasured
5Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.7%
hist -0.7–-0.13% · other way -0.08% (n=12)
6Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -0.7%
hist -2.95–+1.61% · other way +7.7% (n=11)
7Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +0.7%
hist -1.53–+3.92% · other way -7.61% (n=12)
8Financials XLF 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -0.76–+0.02% · other way -0.02% (n=12)
9High-yield credit HYG 📈 chartRate▼ -0.5%
hist -0.63–-0.03% · other way -0.23% (n=12)
10Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -0.53–+0.49% · other way +0.02% (n=12)
11Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.5%
hist -3.39–+3.5% · other way +24.19% (n=11)
12S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -0.4%
hist -1.98–+0.65% · other way +0.73% (n=12)
13JPMorgan JPM 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.55–+0.05% · other way +0.83% (n=12)
14Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -0.2%
hist -0.76–+2.5% · other way +1.44% (n=12)

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): Financials -0.5% · High-yield credit -0.5% · Tech sector -0.5% · JPMorgan -0.2% · 30y Treasury yield +2bp · 10y Treasury yield +2bp

Historical precedent — what analogous events actually did

Across 36 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.

Greece first EU/IMF bailout 2010-05 Northern Rock bank run 2007-09 1976 UK sterling crisis / IMF bailout 1976-09 First Republic Bank seized and sold to JPMorgan 2023-05 Regional-bank panic deepens after Signature seizure 2023-03 August 2022 hot CPI 2022-09 Powell's hawkish 'pain' speech at Jackson Hole 2022-08 Kaisa Group offshore default 2021-12 Turkish lira record low on rate cuts 2021-11 February 2018 hot wage print triggers rate scare 2018-02 China-led global 'Black Monday' rout 2015-08 HYG record outflows in 2014 high-yield rout 2014-10 Mt. Gox collapse 2014-02 Mt. Gox halts withdrawals 2014-02 Cyprus deposit bail-in 2013-03 Spain requests EUR100bn bank bailout 2012-06 Bankia nationalised in Spain's banking crisis 2012-05 Portugal requests EU-IMF bailout 2011-04 Greece requests EU/IMF bailout 2010-04 Anglo Irish Bank nationalisation 2009-01 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac conservatorship 2008-09 IndyMac Bank seized by the Office of Thrift Supervision 2008-07 American Home Mortgage bankruptcy 2007-08 Bear Stearns freezes redemptions on subprime hedge funds 2007-06 New Century Financial bankruptcy 2007-04 HSBC subprime profit warning 2007-02 Turkey lets the lira float 2001-02 Mexico $50bn international rescue package 1995-01 1990-91 recession onset 1990-07 Hong Kong Stock Exchange four-day closure after Black Monday 1987-10 Penn Square Bank failure 1982-07 Silver Thursday 1980-03 Gold peaks at $850 1980-01 1979 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1979-01 Iranian Revolution oil shock 1978-12 1973-75 recession onset 1973-11
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
SMH SMHLONG+2.3% · 5d -0.8% ↺ fades65%26 0.26⚠ differs
COIN COINLONG+4.2% · 5d +7.2%67%6 0.25⚠ differs
JPM JPMSHORT-0.4% · 5d -1.4%65%31 0.25✓ matches cascade
MSTR MSTRSHORT-4.4% · 5d -3.4%65%26 0.23✓ matches cascade
SOL SOLSHORT-7.7% · 5d -9.8%67%6 0.22✓ matches cascade
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.3% · 5d +0.1% ↺ fades61%23 0.18✓ matches cascade
30y yield DGS30SHORT-6bp · 5d -3bp59%34 0.17⚠ differs
10y yield DGS10SHORT-9bp · 5d -4bp59%36 0.17⚠ differs
Gold XAUSHORT-0.6% · 5d -0.3%58%26 0.14·
ETH ETHSHORT-2.8% · 5d -2.4%57%7 0.09✓ matches cascade
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-2.5% · 5d -3.4%56%9 0.09✓ matches cascade
US dollar DXYLONG+0.6% · 5d +0.3%55%36 0.08·
XLF XLFSHORT-0.4% · 5d -1.3%54%26 0.07✓ matches cascade
SPX SPXSHORT-1.7% · 5d -0.6%53%36 0.07✓ 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.