Society & Frontier risk-off · 1–3 years
A what‑if from the future

What if US deals underwritten at 2021 peak values are disproportionately wiped out?

Deals underwritten at 2021 peak values with cheap floating debt are disproportionately wiped out, concentrating losses by vintage, a flagged credit pattern.

6%
our model probability
over 1–3 years
prediction markets — the market's odds
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Anchored to measured history 6% · 90% range 0–14% · 26 dated precedents behind it — a wider range means thinner evidence

Every number ships with its receipt — the odds, the range, the precedents, and a public grade at Reality Check. The statistical machinery that produces it is proprietary.

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 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. Loading the probability audit trail…

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What it would mean

If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Deals underwritten at 2021 peak values with cheap floating debt are disproportionately wiped out, concentrating losses by vintage, a flagged credit pattern. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Credit spreads ▲ · Financial conditions ▲ · Recession signal ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.

Methodology. Probability and impact are anchored to history and scored against what actually happens — wins and losses, in public, at Reality Check. Market odds live from Polymarket & Kalshi. By Vikas Singh, Quantitative Strategist. Updated 2026-08-13.