⚔ Geopolitics risk-off · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if governments nationalize strategic firms to block foreign control?

Governments take golden shares or nationalize strategic firms (chips, steel, ports, telecoms) to shield them from foreign control, raising expropriation and capital-flight risk.

11%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — wisdom of the crowd
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Empirically anchored 11% · 90% range 3–19% · 40 analogues · measured class trade_war 98% in 3 yr · 3% held back for the unknown
how we built this number — every step
Measured class rate — trade_war ≈1.3449/yr → 98% in 3 yr98%
Analyst prior · editorial share 10% of the class10%
Pooled · weight 87%12%
Crowd — no liquid market
Reserve 3% · no extremizing (×1.0)12%
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 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. Governments take golden shares or nationalize strategic firms (chips, steel, ports, telecoms) to shield them from foreign control, raising expropriation and capital-flight risk. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Credit spreads ▲ · Geopolitical risk ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ · Trade tension ▲ — 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
1Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartVol▲ +6.8%
hist +0.47–+8.37% · other way -3.55% (n=12)
2Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -4.1%
hist -2.62–-1.16% · other way +0.4% (n=12)
3Tech sector XLK 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.9%
hist -1.81–-0.55% · other way +0.42% (n=12)
4Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.6%
hist -1.71–+0.05% · other way +3.07% (n=12)
5Nvidia NVDAon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -2.1%
hist -1.61–-0.05% · other way +3.1% (n=12)
6TSMC TSMon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.9%
hist -1.46–-0.56% · other way +3.31% (n=12)
7MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.8%
hist -1.29–-0.21% · other way +25.41% (n=12)
8S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chartIndex▼ -1.6%
hist -1.49–-0.33% · other way -0.7% (n=12)
9AMD AMDon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.7%
hist -1.55–+0.56% · other way +0.74% (n=12)
10Broadcom AVGOon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.7%
hist -1.42–+2.16% · other way +3.0% (n=12)
11Micron MUon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.7%
hist -1.22–-0.16% · other way +4.09% (n=12)
12Marvell MRVLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.7%
hist -1.08–-0.34% · other way +2.51% (n=12)
13Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartCrypto▼ -1.4%
hist -4.5–+1.93% · other way -3.1% (n=11)
14ASML ASMLon Hyperliquid 📈 chartEquity▼ -1.5%
hist -2.09–+0.02% · other way -0.48% (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 gold hedge.
Also moves (not yet on Hyperliquid): Tech sector -2.9% · High-yield credit -1.0% · Chinese yuan -0.8% · Financials -0.7% · JPMorgan -0.5% · Aussie dollar -0.5%

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.

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 Chinese yuan breaks 7 per dollar; US names China manipulator 2019-08 Smoot-Hawley clears the US House 1929-05 US-China extend tariff truce by another 90 days 2025-08 Israel strikes Iran — Operation Rising Lion 2025-06 US and China agree Geneva tariff truce, slashing rates 2025-05 October 2024 Iranian ballistic-missile attack on Israel 2024-10 Wagner Group mutiny against the Kremlin 2023-06 First Republic Bank seized and sold to JPMorgan 2023-05 Regional-bank panic deepens after Signature seizure 2023-03 Kaisa Group offshore default 2021-12 Saudi-Russia oil price war 2020-03 Bitcoin Cash hash war capitulation 2018-11 US List 3 tariffs on $200B of Chinese goods finalized 2018-09 US Section 301 List 1 tariffs take effect on China 2018-07 China retaliates: $50B tariff list incl. soybeans 2018-04 US Section 232 steel & aluminum tariffs imposed 2018-03 North Korea sixth nuclear test 2017-09 North Korea 'fire and fury' nuclear scare 2017-08 Mexican peso crash on Trump 2016 win 2016-11 OPEC abandons output defense, opting for market share vs US shale 2014-11 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 Egyptian revolution / Mubarak uprising 2011-01 Greece first EU/IMF bailout 2010-05 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 Northern Rock bank run 2007-09 American Home Mortgage bankruptcy 2007-08 Bear Stearns freezes redemptions on subprime hedge funds 2007-06 New Century Financial bankruptcy 2007-04 US airline stocks plunge ~40% on first trading day after 9/11 2001-09
AssetHistory saysAbnormal (20d · 5d)HitnConfidencevs cascade
COIN COINLONG+12.1% · 5d +7.7%82%10 0.51⚠ differs
XCU XCUSHORT-2.1% · 5d -0.9%70%39 0.36✓ matches cascade
ETH ETHSHORT-6.2% · 5d -7.1%70%17 0.32✓ matches cascade
MRVL MRVLSHORT-0.3% · 5d -2.4%67%39 0.27✓ matches cascade
High-yield credit HYGSHORT-0.5% · 5d -0.2%66%37 0.26✓ matches cascade
RTX RTXSHORT-2.2% · 5d -1.9%64%39 0.24⚠ differs
AVGO AVGOLONG+2.7% · 5d -1.5% ↺ fades62%31 0.22⚠ differs
Bitcoin BTCSHORT-4.4% · 5d -4.2%62%22 0.20✓ matches cascade
FCX FCXSHORT-3.9% · 5d -1.6%62%39 0.20✓ matches cascade
AUD AUDSHORT-0.9% · 5d -0.1%61%38 0.19✓ matches cascade
TRY TRYSHORT-0.4% · 5d +0.8% ↺ fades62%38 0.18✓ matches cascade
XLF XLFSHORT-0.4% · 5d -0.8%59%39 0.16✓ matches cascade
KRW KRWSHORT-1.1% · 5d -0.1%58%38 0.15✓ matches cascade
10y yield DGS10LONG+2bp · 5d +4bp59%39 0.15·

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.