What if US fiscal populism steepens the curve, 30Y tops 5%?
Bipartisan reluctance to consolidate plus new untargeted spending pushes the US deficit wider; the curve bear-steepens, the 30-year yield tops 5%, and gold rallies on fiscal-debasement concern.
how we built this number — every step
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.
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Bipartisan reluctance to consolidate plus new untargeted spending pushes the US deficit wider; the curve bear-steepens, the 30-year yield tops 5%, and gold rallies on fiscal-debasement concern. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Gold ▲ · Credit spreads ▲ · Yield-curve slope ▲ · 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.
| Market | Class | Projected move | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tech sector XLK 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.7% hist -0.53–-0.04% · other way +0.09% (n=12) |
| 2 | MicroStrategy MSTRon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.7% hist -4.59–+0.98% · other way +27.47% (n=12) |
| 3 | Nasdaq 100 NDXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.6% hist -0.95–+0.04% · other way +0.06% (n=12) |
| 4 | Solana SOLon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.5% hist -13.0–+0.68% · other way -1.04% (n=11) |
| 5 | Bitcoin BTCon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.4% hist -4.12–+1.27% · other way +6.05% (n=11) |
| 6 | 30y Treasury yield DGS30 📈 chart | Rate | ▲ +4bp hist -8.44–+5.09% · other way +8.8% (n=12) |
| 7 | Hyperliquid (HYPE) HYPEon Hyperliquid | Crypto | ▼ -0.4% model prior · unmeasured |
| 8 | 10y Treasury yield DGS10 📈 chart | Rate | ▲ +4bp hist -9.59–+6.8% · other way +9.1% (n=12) |
| 9 | Ether ETHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Crypto | ▼ -0.3% hist -9.18–+1.94% · other way +4.87% (n=11) |
| 10 | S&P 500 SPXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Index | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.35–-0.03% · other way +0.04% (n=12) |
| 11 | Volatility (VIX) VIXon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Vol | ▲ +0.3% hist -1.86–+4.03% · other way -0.58% (n=12) |
| 12 | Coinbase COINon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.3% hist -4.06–+1.47% · other way +21.75% (n=11) |
| 13 | High-yield credit HYG 📈 chart | Rate | ▼ -0.2% hist -0.49–+0.03% · other way -0.28% (n=12) |
| 14 | Semiconductors SMHon Hyperliquid 📈 chart | Equity | ▼ -0.3% hist -0.54–+1.14% · other way +2.75% (n=12) |
Probable recommendation
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.
| Asset | History says | Abnormal (20d · 5d) | Hit | n | Confidence | vs cascade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOL SOL | SHORT | -10.0% · 5d -7.8% | 83% | 20 | 0.42 | ✓ matches cascade |
| ARM ARM | SHORT | -6.2% · 5d -5.8% | 71% | 17 | 0.29 | ✓ matches cascade |
| XHB XHB | SHORT | -1.0% · 5d -0.1% | 67% | 36 | 0.29 | ✓ matches cascade |
| ETH ETH | SHORT | -7.8% · 5d -5.6% | 70% | 20 | 0.27 | ✓ matches cascade |
| High-yield credit HYG | SHORT | -0.3% · 5d +0.0% ↺ fades | 66% | 35 | 0.26 | ✓ matches cascade |
| MSTR MSTR | SHORT | -3.8% · 5d -3.3% | 65% | 37 | 0.25 | ✓ matches cascade |
| Gold XAU | LONG | +0.7% · 5d +0.2% | 61% | 37 | 0.20 | · |
| HOOD HOOD | SHORT | -0.8% · 5d -3.2% | 61% | 20 | 0.18 | ✓ matches cascade |
| 30y yield DGS30 | SHORT | -10bp · 5d -3bp | 59% | 40 | 0.16 | ⚠ differs |
| SMH SMH | LONG | +1.2% · 5d -0.9% ↺ fades | 60% | 37 | 0.16 | ⚠ differs |
| Bitcoin BTC | SHORT | -3.6% · 5d -2.1% | 60% | 21 | 0.15 | ✓ matches cascade |
| COIN COIN | SHORT | -3.7% · 5d +1.5% ↺ fades | 57% | 20 | 0.12 | ✓ matches cascade |
| AVGO AVGO | LONG | +2.2% · 5d -0.8% ↺ fades | 56% | 29 | 0.11 | ⚠ differs |
| NDX NDX | SHORT | -0.6% · 5d -1.7% | 54% | 39 | 0.07 | ✓ matches cascade |