Concepts

2191 concepts · 130 essay references · 2678 prediction references.

• 1992 consensus as institutional malinvestment / ambiguity device

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  • pred-2026-04-11-209 The KMT opposition leader's April 2026 meeting with Xi Jinping will NOT produce a publicly announced formal cross-strait dialogue proposal, joint communiqué, or institutionalized communication channel by June 5, 2026.

• 1992 consensus as spontaneous-order grammar

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  • pred-2026-04-10-203 By May 22, 2026, neither qualifying formal response will materialize: Beijing will not issue a state-level formal policy statement explicitly upgrading cross-strait engagement terms, and the DPP will not formally prohibit or legally constrain opposition cross-strait diplomatic contact through legislation or enforceable executive order.

• 2021-22 'transitory' path dependence

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  • pred-2026-05-06-360 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at the June 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no rate reduction, despite ongoing tariff-driven and Hormuz-linked inflationary pressure and emerging signs of demand weakness.

• abawd

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  • pred-2026-05-10-387 The House Agriculture Committee will approve a reconciliation markup including SNAP spending reductions and/or new or expanded work requirements before 2026-06-30, with eligibility restrictions (categorical eligibility elimination, ABAWD expansion, or BBCE elimination) carrying the primary fiscal scoring weight alongside work requirement language.

• abct malinvestment

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  • pred-2026-04-28-332 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds target rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, with no dissents favoring a rate cut.

• absorption-with-signaling as institutional default

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  • pred-2026-05-07-365 By May 21, 2026, Hezbollah will neither formally declare the 2024 Lebanon ceasefire void nor launch a single retaliatory barrage exceeding 50 projectiles toward northern Israel in response to the reported Beirut strike. Sub-threshold response (drone incursions, cross-border fire under 50 projectiles, diplomatic escalation through Iranian channels) is the expected equilibrium.

• abstraction norm

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  • pred-2026-03-18-025 The March 2026 FOMC Summary of Economic Projections will show the median 2026 rate-cut projection at 2 or fewer cuts (a downward revision from December's 3-cut median); Powell will use energy-supply-uncertainty language that gestures at Hormuz without explicit naming. The OR compound resolves TRUE primarily through the dot-plot pathway, with explicit Hormuz citation being the uncertain secondary condition.

• abstraction-ratchet

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  • pred-2026-03-20-053 The European Commission will NOT formally invoke the Gas Security of Supply Regulation (2017/1938 or successor) or authorize coordinated strategic reserve drawdowns in response to Qatar LNG supply disruption by May 15, 2026. Instead, the Commission will activate softer coordination instruments: EU Energy Platform convening, emergency supply monitoring, joint procurement facilitation, and Commission communications — without crossing the formal solidarity-trigger or drawdown-authorization threshold.

• access-blocking as procedural self-defeat

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  • pred-2026-04-22-281 At least one of WFP, OCHA, or the IPC Famine Review Committee will formally declare IPC Phase 5 (famine) conditions in at least one zone of Gaza by June 17, 2026.

• accountability aesthetic

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  • pred-2026-04-21-273 The Starmer government will NOT experience a frontbench resignation or announce a by-election tied specifically to the Robbins/Mandelson vetting scandal within 14 days (by May 5, 2026); accountability pressure will be channeled into parliamentary scrutiny without producing institutional rupture.
  • pred-2026-04-22-279 None of the three formal challenge triggers materialize by May 6, 2026: no cabinet-level resignation directly linked to the Robbins/diplomatic-job revelations, no formal Labour leadership nomination letter signed by 20+ MPs, and no government defeat on a Commons confidence-adjacent motion.

• accretion ratchet

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  • pred-2026-04-10-195 At least one unannounced tariff measure — executive order imposing new duties, retaliatory product list expansion, or formal suspension of a trade exemption — will be publicly announced by either the US or China between April 10–24, 2026, without having been publicly pre-signaled before April 10.

• accumulation by dispossession

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  • pred-2026-03-23-087 The UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will announce welfare and/or disability benefit cuts or eligibility restrictions formally projected to save £5bn or more annually, with PIP eligibility tightening and/or UC work-capability conditionality intensification as the primary mechanism.
  • pred-2026-03-29-149 HM Government will formally announce at least two material privatization initiatives — including NHS trust transfers, public utility stake disposals, public land sales, infrastructure fund transfers, or functionally equivalent arm's-length asset transfers denominated as fiscal consolidation measures — by 2026-12-31, even if not labeled 'privatization' in ministerial statements.

• activation ratchet

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  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper

• actualization apparatus

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  • pred-2026-04-26-321 Armed groups will NOT execute a sustained incursion into Bamako's urban core (inside the Boulevard ring road) within 8 weeks of the April 25, 2026 coordinated attacks near Bamako airport — perimeter and peri-urban pressure will continue and likely escalate, but the Boulevard threshold will not be crossed with forces operating inside the ring continuously for 48 hours or more.

• adaptation

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  • Chart-Preservation: Parliamentary Adaptation on a Political Manifold
  • Policy Brief: Governing Through the Grammar's Limit — Counterfactual Rehearsal, Contagious Shocks, and the Adaptation Trap

• additional member system (d'hondt correction)

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  • pred-2026-04-25-317 The SNP will win fewer than 65 seats in the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament election, failing to secure an outright majority and producing a hung parliament requiring minority government or coalition/confidence-and-supply arrangements.

• additive republic

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  • pred-2026-03-29-149 HM Government will formally announce at least two material privatization initiatives — including NHS trust transfers, public utility stake disposals, public land sales, infrastructure fund transfers, or functionally equivalent arm's-length asset transfers denominated as fiscal consolidation measures — by 2026-12-31, even if not labeled 'privatization' in ministerial statements.

• administered price pass-through

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  • pred-2026-04-06-157 The Bureau of Labor Statistics' March 2026 CPI report (expected release ~April 10, 2026) will show headline inflation at or above 3.5% year-over-year.

• administered pricing

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  • pred-2026-03-23-079 The Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE price index at or above 2.8% year-over-year when data releases on or around March 28, 2026.
  • pred-2026-03-25-099 The US February 2026 core PCE price index (year-over-year) will print at or above 2.6% when released on March 28, 2026

• administered-pricing

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  • pred-2026-03-26-111 The US Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE inflation (ex food and energy) at or above 2.7% year-over-year when released on March 28, 2026, materially complicating the FOMC's projected 2026 rate-cut path by causing a deferral of the anticipated June 2026 cut.

• administrative absorption

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  • pred-2026-05-06-363 The WHO will NOT issue a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) or equivalent formal international health alert (e.g., WHO Grade 3 Emergency with international spread finding) for the South African cruise-ship human-to-human hantavirus strain before June 17, 2026.

• administrative intermediary market

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  • pred-2026-04-20-261 By May 4, 2026, the US tariff refund system will face publicly documented administrative backlog, processing freeze, or formal capacity warning — sourced from CBP, USTR, a major trade publication (Journal of Commerce, Inside US Trade, Bloomberg), or a major trade association (NAM, NRF, or equivalent) — attributable to simultaneous mass filing pressure from thousands of importers at launch.

• administrative leave reclassification

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  • pred-2026-04-18-241 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 19, 2026 (released April 24) will come in at or above 225,000, reflecting cumulative disruption from tariff-driven layoffs, federal workforce reductions, and associated secondary demand contraction.

• administrative substitution

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  • pred-2026-05-12-396 The UK government will not table a revised welfare reform bill containing substantive conditionality or activity requirements before July 7, 2026.

• administrative zone designation

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  • pred-2026-04-23-293 By August 31, 2026, the Israeli government or IDF will formally designate and announce a named military operation or permanent administrative security zone in the northern West Bank (Jenin/Tulkarem corridor or broader), distinct from ad-hoc settler-violence responses — with Operation Iron Wall (January 2025) as the established baseline, meaning any successor named operation, formal escalation of Iron Wall into a permanent administrative zone, or new cabinet/IDF designation of a 'special security zone' with published geographic scope counts as resolution.

• advance estimate imputation

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  • pred-2026-04-28-331 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show annualized real GDP growth below 1.0%, driven by a negative net-exports drag from tariff-anticipation import front-loading and suppressed gross private fixed investment from tariff-uncertainty-induced capital deferral.

• advance estimate measurement bias

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  • pred-2026-04-22-283 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show negative real GDP growth (annualized rate below 0%), likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by a net exports collapse from pre-tariff import front-loading.

• aeonic armistice

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  • pred-2026-03-28-143 Neither a binding UNSC humanitarian access resolution (or emergency framework) specifically for Lebanon nor a formal Lebanese government Chapter VII request will be adopted or lodged by May 15, 2026. The UNSC output will be limited to non-binding language, presidential statements, or renewed UNIFIL mandate discussions.

• aesthetic

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  • Policy Brief: Nostalgia as Governance Occupation

• agency

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  • Policy Brief: The Algorithmic Tribunal Gap

• agenda-setting veto

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  • pred-2026-05-01-336 Congress will not advance any war powers resolution, supplemental appropriations bill, or defunding amendment specifically addressing the Iran military operation to a committee vote by June 26, 2026.

• aggregate demand compression — paradox of thrift and animal spirits

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  • pred-2026-03-19-045 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth projection below 1.5% in its Spring 2026 forecast published alongside the Spring Statement on or around March 26, 2026

• aggregate demand contraction

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  • pred-2026-03-29-145 The US ISM Manufacturing PMI for March 2026 will print below 48.0 upon release circa April 1, 2026, confirming manufacturing contraction consistent with compound tariff escalation and Hormuz-driven energy cost pass-through into manufacturing inputs.

• aggregate demand deficiency

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  • pred-2026-03-21-061 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (expected March 26, 2026), down from the October 2025 forecast of approximately 1.6%.

• aggregate demand protection and knightian uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-05-09-381 By June 30, 2026, the EU will formally pause, extend, or substantially modify its July 4 retaliatory tariff ultimatum against the US, and will cite US domestic court battles over tariff legality as a stated ground for the modification, rather than allowing the deadline to stand unchanged.

• aggregate demand shock from energy premium

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  • pred-2026-04-13-231 By April 26, 2026, at least 3 G7 members beyond the UK will issue formal, public governmental statements declining to participate in the US Hormuz blockade — most likely Germany, Japan, and France.

• aggregate demand shock transmission

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  • pred-2026-04-07-163 By April 14, 2026, the Pakistan-brokered US-Iran diplomatic channel will produce at least one publicly announced output — framework agreement, joint communiqué, ceasefire proposal, or confirmed follow-on talks — rather than a US military strike order or announced total diplomatic collapse with no scheduled continuation.

• aggregate-demand-destruction

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  • pred-2026-03-24-093 By April 7, 2026, no formal public confirmation of direct or Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic talks will be issued by official representatives of any of the three governments.

• aging

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  • The Generational Siege: Structural Reform vs. the Aging Mandate as Conflict Dynamic

• allocation

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  • pred-2026-05-09-001 The Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI report for April 2026 (all items, seasonally adjusted) will show a positive month-over-month change — i.e., the index will be higher than the March 2026 reading.

• allocative ratchet

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  • pred-2026-03-28-133 The US Liberation Day tariff package announced April 2, 2026 will NOT be implemented cleanly on schedule — by April 11, 2026, announced bilateral exemptions, product exclusions, implementation delays, or country-specific carve-outs will collectively affect more than 20% of the originally targeted import value.
  • pred-2026-03-29-149 HM Government will formally announce at least two material privatization initiatives — including NHS trust transfers, public utility stake disposals, public land sales, infrastructure fund transfers, or functionally equivalent arm's-length asset transfers denominated as fiscal consolidation measures — by 2026-12-31, even if not labeled 'privatization' in ministerial statements.

• ambiguity equilibrium

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  • pred-2026-04-28-333 The US and Iran will NOT announce a formal written framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program before June 23, 2026; the diplomatic channel will remain in 'talks continuing' ambiguity mode throughout the window.

• ambiguity preservation

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  • pred-2026-04-10-193 By April 20, 2026, Iranian authorities (IRGC, Foreign Ministry, or Supreme Leader's office) will issue at least one of the following in direct response to Trump's Hormuz passage warning: a formal counter-statement or diplomatic note, a naval repositioning or exercise announcement, or a NOTAM issuance — with the Foreign Ministry verbal counter-statement being near-certain and an IRGC operational signal being likely.

• ambiguity preservation as common-pool governance

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  • pred-2026-04-23-297 A publicly confirmed kinetic naval engagement between US forces and Iranian vessels in or near the Strait of Hormuz will occur by May 7, 2026, following Trump's standing shoot order against mine-laying boats.

• ams/d'hondt switching cost reduction

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  • pred-2026-04-26-320 In the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senedd, and English local elections, Labour's combined vote share in comparable contested areas falls more than 5 percentage points below its 2024 general election baseline, as measured by Electoral Commission and council/Senedd/Holyrood declared results by May 10, 2026.

• amulet function

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  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper

• anachronism

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  • The Piece-Form: Epistemic Hedging, Intuition Suppression, and the Anachronism of Fragment-Based Knowledge

• animal spirit asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-03-27-129 The BEA's February 2026 PCE release (~2026-03-28) will show core PCE year-over-year at or above 2.5%, AND at least one Federal Reserve official will issue a public statement within 48 hours of the release maintaining a data-dependent pause on rate cuts.

• animal spirits

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  • pred-2026-03-17-021 No publicly announced operative agreement (ceasefire extension, hostage deal, or binding framework document with operational parameters) will emerge from the Cairo talks by March 28, 2026. Any public statement issued will be a procedural communiqué or vague progress declaration without binding commitments on ceasefire duration, hostage releases, or withdrawal timelines.
  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper
  • pred-2026-03-18-033 The OBR forecast published at the UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will show UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Budget forecast
  • pred-2026-03-19-041 The Japanese government will publicly reject, formally challenge, or announce a counter-proposal to the reported ~$6bn SoftBank fee embedded in US bilateral trade deal terms by April 16, 2026 — most likely reframing the demand as an investment pledge or FDI commitment rather than issuing a clean structural rejection.
  • pred-2026-03-25-099 The US February 2026 core PCE price index (year-over-year) will print at or above 2.6% when released on March 28, 2026
  • pred-2026-03-27-127 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast to below 1.5% in the Spring Statement (due 2026-03-31), down from approximately 2.0% in the Autumn Statement 2025, citing Hormuz-driven energy costs and trade uncertainty.
  • pred-2026-03-29-145 The US ISM Manufacturing PMI for March 2026 will print below 48.0 upon release circa April 1, 2026, confirming manufacturing contraction consistent with compound tariff escalation and Hormuz-driven energy cost pass-through into manufacturing inputs.
  • pred-2026-03-29-155 No publicly announced interim agreement, confidence-building measure, or joint statement will emerge from the Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic track by April 30, 2026. Back-channel activity will continue, but the threshold of public announcement will not be crossed.
  • pred-2026-04-06-161 De facto majority halt of commercial Bab al-Mandeb transits—defined as sustained traffic at ≤50% of pre-October 2023 baseline due to voluntary rerouting and insurance market withdrawal—will persist through May 18, 2026, without requiring a formal Houthi closure declaration.
  • pred-2026-04-07-165 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 5, 2026 (released April 10, 2026) will come in BELOW 230,000, remaining consistent with pre-tariff baseline and within the structural lag window before tariff-shock displacement becomes visible in formal claims data.
  • pred-2026-04-08-175 The first round of US-Iran talks in Islamabad (approximately April 11–15, 2026) will NOT produce a publicly announced joint communiqué, agreed negotiating framework, or explicit agenda document for nuclear/sanctions discussions by April 15, 2026. The publicly observable outcome will be, at most, a vague procedural statement ('constructive atmosphere; parties agreed to continue') that avoids committing either side to a specific agenda, timeline, or negotiating framework.
  • pred-2026-04-08-177 The March 2026 US headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released during the week of April 7–11, 2026, driven by tariff pass-through in goods categories and embedded energy cost from the pre-ceasefire Iran-Hormuz disruption.
  • pred-2026-04-10-195 At least one unannounced tariff measure — executive order imposing new duties, retaliatory product list expansion, or formal suspension of a trade exemption — will be publicly announced by either the US or China between April 10–24, 2026, without having been publicly pre-signaled before April 10.
  • pred-2026-04-11-215 By June 6, 2026, at least one NATO member state will formally request renegotiation of US military base access terms or publicly announce an official government review of existing basing agreements, explicitly citing Atlantic realignment dynamics, reduced US credibility, or the Iran crisis as justification.
  • pred-2026-04-18-241 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 19, 2026 (released April 24) will come in at or above 225,000, reflecting cumulative disruption from tariff-driven layoffs, federal workforce reductions, and associated secondary demand contraction.
  • pred-2026-04-21-265 Reform UK will finish in second place ahead of the Conservative Party in the Birmingham by-election, while Labour retains the seat with a majority below 5,000 votes
  • pred-2026-04-21-271 US-Iran nuclear negotiations will not produce a formal framework agreement or substantive joint statement with specific parameters before April 30, 2026; the most likely outcome is either a minimal procedural signal (announced next-round schedule or anodyne communiqué) or quiet continuation without formal public output — not a genuine breakthrough and not outright collapse.
  • pred-2026-04-22-279 None of the three formal challenge triggers materialize by May 6, 2026: no cabinet-level resignation directly linked to the Robbins/diplomatic-job revelations, no formal Labour leadership nomination letter signed by 20+ MPs, and no government defeat on a Commons confidence-adjacent motion.
  • pred-2026-04-22-283 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show negative real GDP growth (annualized rate below 0%), likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by a net exports collapse from pre-tariff import front-loading.
  • pred-2026-04-22-287 No written framework, parameters document, or joint statement of principles on US-Iran nuclear de-escalation will be jointly announced by June 15, 2026; talks will remain in procedural or exploratory contact phase at best
  • pred-2026-04-23-299 The $70bn ICE/Border Patrol funding bill that passed the Senate will be signed into law by June 18, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.
  • pred-2026-04-26-323 The BLS April 2026 non-farm payrolls report (releasing approximately May 2, 2026) will show total payroll job creation below 100,000, reflecting a tariff-driven investment freeze and hiring slowdown.
  • pred-2026-05-06-358 Brent crude oil futures will NOT decline by more than 4% within 7 days of Trump's Project Freedom pause announcement (by May 13, 2026); expected drawdown is 1–3% before stabilization or partial reversal.
  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.
  • pred-2026-05-07-364 Labour will lose net control of at least 3 councils and at least 150 council seats in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, confirming a major Reform/Green pincer surge.
  • pred-2026-05-09-377 At least one qualifying event will occur between 2026-05-09 and 2026-05-16: Russia formally announcing a new operational phase or mandatory mobilization expansion, OR Ukraine conducting a publicized cross-border strategic strike on Russian territory.
  • pred-2026-05-12-397 The Australian Labor government's negative gearing and capital gains tax reform measures as announced in Budget 2026 will survive 14 days of parliamentary scrutiny through May 26, 2026, without the government publicly offering major concessions — defined as explicit scope reduction, new grandfathering provisions not present in the original budget announcement, or phase-in timeline extension — to crossbenchers or the opposition in response to parliamentary pressure.
  • pred-2026-05-20-403 The UK House of Commons passes the Loyal Address following the King's Speech without a successful no-confidence amendment, on or before 2026-06-03.

• animal spirits (keynes)

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  • pred-2026-04-24-301 The Liberal Party of Canada under Mark Carney will win enough seats on April 28, 2026 to form government (minority or majority), and Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party will fail to form government.

• animal spirits / convention dynamics

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  • pred-2026-04-17-235 Brent crude oil will exceed $110/bbl on at least one trading day between 2026-04-17 and 2026-04-27, given the active US naval blockade of Iranian ports and a $103/bbl baseline.

• animal spirits / knightian uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-04-26-319 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 GDP (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized quarter-over-quarter growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.5% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading statistical drag from tariff anticipation and compounded by capital investment deferral and fiscal contraction.

• animal spirits / minsky momentum

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  • pred-2026-03-16-007 Brent crude oil will close above $95/barrel on at least 7 of the 10 trading days spanning March 17–28, 2026, given ongoing US-Israeli strikes on Iran and continued selective Hormuz passage

• animal spirits and fundamental uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-04-19-251 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing a statement that acknowledges elevated tariff-driven inflation while citing heightened uncertainty as grounds for inaction.
  • pred-2026-05-05-357 The US-China tariff standoff will persist without formal structural engagement through June 30, 2026 — no joint US-China statement on tariff negotiation, no ministerial-level or above bilateral negotiating session, and no publicly announced mutual tariff suspension on any product category will emerge before that date.

• animal spirits and investment multiplier

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  • pred-2026-05-13-400 The UK King's Speech, if delivered by 2026-05-27, will include at least one piece of primary legislation explicitly targeting NHS waiting-list reduction or housing supply as a named headline domestic bill — not merely a white paper, green paper, or regulatory commitment.

• animal spirits and knightian uncertainty during regime limbo

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  • pred-2026-05-09-380 The Trump administration will secure a judicial emergency stay (from the circuit court, SCOTUS, or both) reinstating the 10% global tariff regime by May 23, 2026 — within 14 days of the Court of International Trade ruling striking it down.

• animal spirits and liquidity preference

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  • pred-2026-05-12-395 The Trump-Xi summit will produce a publicly announced trade framework containing at least one of: (a) named tariff reduction percentages, (b) identified sector carve-outs, or (c) explicit numerical purchase or trade-flow targets — before May 26, 2026. Any such framework will be at most semi-binding, without operative enforcement architecture.

• animal spirits and liquidity preference (keynes chapter 12 — long-run bond valuation as expectations of others' expectations)

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  • pred-2026-05-13-402 UK 10-year gilt yields will breach 5.5% at least once during the period May 13 – July 8, 2026, as compound political-fiscal stress from the Starmer ministerial crisis reinforces the pre-existing 27-year high borrowing cost trajectory.

• animal spirits asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-04-19-247 Brent crude oil will NOT close below $98/bbl on any trading day between April 21 and May 2, 2026, even if a formal US-Iran ceasefire or diplomatic breakthrough is announced during this window.

• animal spirits bifurcation

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  • pred-2026-04-10-203 By May 22, 2026, neither qualifying formal response will materialize: Beijing will not issue a state-level formal policy statement explicitly upgrading cross-strait engagement terms, and the DPP will not formally prohibit or legally constrain opposition cross-strait diplomatic contact through legislation or enforceable executive order.

• animal spirits cascade

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  • pred-2026-04-19-257 By June 14, 2026 (within 8 weeks of the Australia-Japan $7bn warships deal signed April 2026), at least one formal multilateral security announcement — an AUKUS addendum, QUAD joint statement, or trilateral Australia-Japan-US operational agreement — will be publicly issued that explicitly cites China, North Korea, or Indo-Pacific deterrence as the security rationale.

• animal spirits collapse

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  • pred-2026-03-24-091 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast downward by at least 0.5 percentage points from its Autumn 2025 Statement projection in the Spring Statement 2026 fiscal event on March 26, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-24-307 The BEA advance estimate of Q1 2026 real GDP growth (released ~April 30, 2026) will show negative annualized growth — a technical contraction below 0% — driven primarily by a large negative net-exports contribution from pre-tariff import front-loading, compounded by suppressed fixed investment.
  • pred-2026-04-25-316 The BEA advance estimate released April 30, 2026 will show Q1 2026 real GDP growth as negative (below 0.0% annualized), with a point estimate in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading surge mechanically compressing the net-exports component and secondarily by consumer spending deceleration.
  • pred-2026-04-25-318 The Malian transitional government will NOT formally declare a national state of emergency AND will NOT publicly request emergency military reinforcement from any external partner (Russia/Africa Corps successor, neighboring state, or the African Union) within 60 days of the late-April 2026 coordinated attacks.
  • pred-2026-04-27-325 The BEA's advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP (scheduled for release ~April 30, 2026) will show a negative quarter-on-quarter annualized growth rate, i.e., real GDP contraction.
  • pred-2026-04-28-331 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show annualized real GDP growth below 1.0%, driven by a negative net-exports drag from tariff-anticipation import front-loading and suppressed gross private fixed investment from tariff-uncertainty-induced capital deferral.
  • pred-2026-05-05-356 The BLS April 2026 CPI report (~May 13 release) will show headline YoY inflation at or above 3.5%, consistent with measurable tariff pass-through crossing that threshold in the April measurement window.
  • pred-2026-05-10-386 A subsequent round of US-Iran indirect nuclear or Hormuz-related talks will be publicly confirmed or announced before 2026-05-24, following Iran's published response to the latest US framework proposal.

• animal spirits contagion

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  • pred-2026-03-27-131 At least one of BYD, NIO, Li Auto, or XPENG will publicly announce production cuts, factory suspensions, or workforce reductions by 2026-05-08 (6 weeks from 2026-03-27), as domestic margin compression from the ongoing price war renders expansion uneconomical.
  • pred-2026-04-13-231 By April 26, 2026, at least 3 G7 members beyond the UK will issue formal, public governmental statements declining to participate in the US Hormuz blockade — most likely Germany, Japan, and France.

• animal spirits convention anchoring

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  • pred-2026-03-21-059 TTF natural gas spot prices will average above €55/MWh across the April 1–28, 2026 window, driven by Qatar LNG facility strike and sustained Gulf conflict disruption to spot cargo flows into Europe.

• animal spirits deficit

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  • pred-2026-04-10-201 Commercial tanker passage through the Strait of Hormuz will recover to at least 60% of pre-conflict baseline traffic volumes by April 24, 2026, following ceasefire diplomacy.

• animal spirits deterioration

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  • pred-2026-04-10-197 The European Commission will NOT formally adopt a comprehensive retaliatory tariff or countermeasure package targeting US goods that clearly goes beyond existing WTO-route safeguard measures by May 31, 2026; instead, the Commission will adopt a phased framework authorization, safeguard extension, or Anti-Coercion Instrument activation notice that preserves escalation optionality without crossing the 'comprehensive, beyond WTO-route' threshold specified.

• animal spirits in diplomatic commitment

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  • pred-2026-04-24-305 US-Iran nuclear and sanctions negotiations will NOT produce a publicly acknowledged written framework or agreement-in-principle document by May 31, 2026. Talks will continue in back-channel form; any visible output will be verbal acknowledgments of 'progress' rather than a signed or jointly circulated text.

• animal spirits paralysis

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  • pred-2026-05-01-334 The April 2026 US nonfarm payrolls report (released May 2, 2026) will show net job creation above 150,000, with the headline number in the 160,000–195,000 range, sustained by BLS birth-death model contributions, post-pandemic labor-hoarding norms, and service-sector insulation from goods-sector tariff disruption — despite real underlying deterioration in job quality and a demand-side headwind from tariff-induced income compression and Iran war fiscal lag

• animal spirits regime shift

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  • pred-2026-04-23-297 A publicly confirmed kinetic naval engagement between US forces and Iranian vessels in or near the Strait of Hormuz will occur by May 7, 2026, following Trump's standing shoot order against mine-laying boats.

• animal spirits reversal

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  • pred-2026-04-25-317 The SNP will win fewer than 65 seats in the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament election, failing to secure an outright majority and producing a hung parliament requiring minority government or coalition/confidence-and-supply arrangements.

• animal spirits suppression

  0 essays · 4 predictions

  • pred-2026-03-25-101 Pakistan-mediated US-Iran contacts will NOT produce a publicly announced bilateral meeting, formal ceasefire talks, or nuclear negotiation framework by April 30, 2026
  • pred-2026-04-28-333 The US and Iran will NOT announce a formal written framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program before June 23, 2026; the diplomatic channel will remain in 'talks continuing' ambiguity mode throughout the window.
  • pred-2026-05-05-355 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, AND the post-meeting statement and Powell press conference will not signal that a rate cut is imminent (i.e., will not pre-commit to or strongly imply a June 2026 cut, defined as no shift to >70% market-implied probability of June cut immediately post-conference).
  • pred-2026-05-08-374 The US-China trade talks currently underway will produce at least one publicly announced output — a framework agreement, a tariff reduction commitment, or a formal negotiating roadmap — by May 22, 2026.

• animal spirits suppression from tariff uncertainty

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-04-25-314 The King Charles visit to President Trump (by 2026-04-28) will NOT result in a formal US public announcement of tariff relief, exemption, or bilateral trade framework for UK goods by 2026-05-05. The most likely output is a joint statement with aspirational trade language and announcement of accelerated negotiations or a bilateral working group.

• animal spirits under fundamental uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-03-22-073 The OBR's Spring Statement 2026 forecast will project UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 at or below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Statement projection of approximately 1.6–1.7%.

• animal spirits under non-ergodic uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-03-24-095 TTF natural gas front-month spot price will close above €75/MWh on at least 6 of the 15 trading sessions from March 25 to April 14, 2026, reflecting sustained price elevation from the combined QatarEnergy LNG force majeure and Hormuz disruption shock.

• animal spirits under post-jcpoa conditions

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  • pred-2026-05-06-359 Iranian government officials will NOT issue any formal statement or diplomatic action officially indicating openness to negotiation over Hormuz transit access before May 20, 2026 (within 14 days of the Project Freedom pause announcement)

• animal-spirits

  0 essays · 8 predictions

  • pred-2026-03-18-027 The Eurozone composite flash PMI for March 2026 will print below 49.0, signaling economic contraction, with the manufacturing sub-index leading at 46–47 and services dragging the composite to approximately 48.2–48.8.
  • pred-2026-03-19-043 European TTF natural gas spot price will close above €45/MWh on at least 3 of the 5 trading days from March 20–26, 2026, as markets price in the confirmed 17% reduction in Qatar LNG capacity following Iranian strikes.
  • pred-2026-03-19-047 At least 2 GCC member states beyond Qatar (most likely Saudi Arabia + Bahrain or UAE) will formally downgrade, suspend, or sever diplomatic relations with Iran by May 14, 2026, following Iran's strikes on Qatari LNG infrastructure.
  • pred-2026-03-27-125 By May 15, 2026, the EU Council will advance formal ratification proceedings without incorporating the European Parliament's stated conditions into the treaty text; those conditions will be acknowledged only through non-binding side instruments (political declarations, Commission implementation commitments, or joint interpretive statements).
  • pred-2026-03-28-135 The OBR will revise its UK 2026 GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (March 30-31, 2026), specifically to a figure in the 0.7-0.99% range, signaling structural rather than cyclical deterioration.
  • pred-2026-03-28-139 The US March 2026 non-farm payrolls report (released April 3, 2026) will show job gains BELOW 150,000, while the unemployment rate holds at or below 4.2% — producing a split resolution where employment growth disappoints but the headline unemployment rate appears stable due to labor-supply contraction rather than demand recovery.
  • pred-2026-05-03-343 A fourth formal round of Iran-US nuclear negotiations will NOT be publicly announced or formally scheduled by 2026-05-17, despite the US having formally responded to Iran's latest peace proposal.
  • pred-2026-05-09-379 Credible reports of resumed large-scale offensive operations by Russia or Ukraine will emerge before May 15, 2026, causing the ceasefire to collapse within or immediately following its stated 72-hour window.

• animal-spirits-effective-demand

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  • pred-2026-05-10-383 Within 14 days of the court ruling striking down 10% global tariffs (by 2026-05-24), the Trump administration will file an emergency stay application in federal court OR issue a new executive order reimposing substantially equivalent global tariff measures (≥8% on a broad category of imports).

• animal-spirits-intervention

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  • pred-2026-03-24-093 By April 7, 2026, no formal public confirmation of direct or Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic talks will be issued by official representatives of any of the three governments.

• animal-spirits-legitimacy-trap

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  • pred-2026-03-25-105 By April 8, 2026, the US and Iran will NOT publicly confirm a scheduled direct or Oman-mediated bilateral meeting at deputy-foreign-minister level or above to discuss nuclear or military de-escalation terms.

• annexation

  1 essay · 1 prediction

  • Policy Brief: The Journey as Recognition-Embargo — Restoring Entitlement-Accumulation in Platform, Gig, and Migration Labor
  • pred-2026-03-25-001 Initial jobless claims for the week ending March 22, 2026 (reported Thursday March 27, 2026) will come in at or above 230,000 seasonally adjusted.

• announce-broad/negotiate-narrow template

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  • pred-2026-03-26-109 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include a publicly stated blanket tariff rate of 10% or higher on EU goods in non-automotive, non-steel sectors, confirmed in official White House or Federal Register communication on or before April 4, 2026.

• announcement as confidence management

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  • pred-2026-05-10-386 A subsequent round of US-Iran indirect nuclear or Hormuz-related talks will be publicly confirmed or announced before 2026-05-24, following Iran's published response to the latest US framework proposal.

• announcement cost asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-04-27-326 A direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic contact will be publicly announced or confirmed before May 11, 2026, through any qualifying channel (formal bilateral statement, intermediary-confirmed back-channel via Oman, Russia, or Switzerland, or UN-corridor acknowledgment by any party to the exchange).

• announcement-as-lagging-indicator

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  • pred-2026-03-24-093 By April 7, 2026, no formal public confirmation of direct or Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic talks will be issued by official representatives of any of the three governments.

• announcement-cost mechanism

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  • pred-2026-04-13-233 By June 7, 2026, at least one major Gulf sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA, or Kuwait KIA) will publicly announce a reduction in USD-denominated asset holdings or a new allocation to non-USD reserve assets.

• announcement-delivery transaction cost asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-05-13-400 The UK King's Speech, if delivered by 2026-05-27, will include at least one piece of primary legislation explicitly targeting NHS waiting-list reduction or housing supply as a named headline domestic bill — not merely a white paper, green paper, or regulatory commitment.

• announcement-effect

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  • pred-2026-05-03-344 The UK government will NOT formally declare an energy emergency or extend mandatory energy rationing beyond the existing airline cancellation order by 2026-05-17; energy management will proceed through escalating sector-specific administrative orders while preserving market governance architecture.

• announcement-extraction-vs-convergence

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  • pred-2026-03-25-105 By April 8, 2026, the US and Iran will NOT publicly confirm a scheduled direct or Oman-mediated bilateral meeting at deputy-foreign-minister level or above to discuss nuclear or military de-escalation terms.

• announcement-implementation cost asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-03-26-109 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include a publicly stated blanket tariff rate of 10% or higher on EU goods in non-automotive, non-steel sectors, confirmed in official White House or Federal Register communication on or before April 4, 2026.

• announcement-implementation divergence

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  • pred-2026-03-29-151 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include blanket tariffs of ≥10% on imports from at least one of EU, Japan, South Korea, or Mexico.

• announcement-theater vs. regime-change distinction

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  • pred-2026-04-25-314 The King Charles visit to President Trump (by 2026-04-28) will NOT result in a formal US public announcement of tariff relief, exemption, or bilateral trade framework for UK goods by 2026-05-05. The most likely output is a joint statement with aspirational trade language and announcement of accelerated negotiations or a bilateral working group.

• announcement-to-implementation gap

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  • pred-2026-04-19-247 Brent crude oil will NOT close below $98/bbl on any trading day between April 21 and May 2, 2026, even if a formal US-Iran ceasefire or diplomatic breakthrough is announced during this window.

• anti-cascade mechanism

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  • pred-2026-05-10-382 No formal vote of no confidence or leadership contest nomination will be publicly submitted against Keir Starmer as Labour leader before 2026-05-24.

• anti-coercion instrument (aci)

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  • pred-2026-04-10-197 The European Commission will NOT formally adopt a comprehensive retaliatory tariff or countermeasure package targeting US goods that clearly goes beyond existing WTO-route safeguard measures by May 31, 2026; instead, the Commission will adopt a phased framework authorization, safeguard extension, or Anti-Coercion Instrument activation notice that preserves escalation optionality without crossing the 'comprehensive, beyond WTO-route' threshold specified.

• anti-conversion function

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  • pred-2026-03-26-115 The February 2026 PCE price index (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.8% year-over-year.

• anti-tory coordination institution dissolution

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  • pred-2026-04-26-320 In the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senedd, and English local elections, Labour's combined vote share in comparable contested areas falls more than 5 percentage points below its 2024 general election baseline, as measured by Electoral Commission and council/Senedd/Holyrood declared results by May 10, 2026.

• anticipatory coordination failure

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  • pred-2026-03-18-033 The OBR forecast published at the UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will show UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Budget forecast

• anticipatory grammar

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  • pred-2026-04-19-253 The US-Pakistan-Iran diplomatic track will NOT produce a publicly announced tangible output — no joint communiqué, agreed framework, or confirmed next round of direct/indirect talks — by May 3, 2026; the ceiling outcome is an informal 'constructive discussions' readout below the threshold of tangible diplomatic product.
  • pred-2026-04-19-257 By June 14, 2026 (within 8 weeks of the Australia-Japan $7bn warships deal signed April 2026), at least one formal multilateral security announcement — an AUKUS addendum, QUAD joint statement, or trilateral Australia-Japan-US operational agreement — will be publicly issued that explicitly cites China, North Korea, or Indo-Pacific deterrence as the security rationale.

• apa arbitrary-and-capricious

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  • pred-2026-03-17-015 The US Supreme Court will NOT issue a stay or preliminary injunction halting the administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status within 14 days of the March 17, 2026 expedited argument session (resolution by 2026-03-31).

• appellate stay four-factor standard

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  • pred-2026-05-08-371 The Trump administration will obtain an emergency appellate stay of the Court of International Trade ruling invalidating the 10% global baseline tariffs within 14 days of that ruling (by May 21, 2026), keeping the tariffs operationally in force pending full appellate review.

• apprenticeship

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  • Policy Brief: The Etymology Trap in Institutional Reform

• appropriations channel

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  • pred-2026-05-01-336 Congress will not advance any war powers resolution, supplemental appropriations bill, or defunding amendment specifically addressing the Iran military operation to a committee vote by June 26, 2026.

• aristocracy

  1 essay · 0 predictions

  • The Mobility Paradox: How Diaspora Nostalgia and Host-Society Aristocracy Ratchet Segregation Through the Figure of the Immigrant

• arms-sales-lock-in

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  • pred-2026-05-03-343 A fourth formal round of Iran-US nuclear negotiations will NOT be publicly announced or formally scheduled by 2026-05-17, despite the US having formally responded to Iran's latest peace proposal.

• arrondissement governance structure

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  • pred-2026-03-21-055 The left-wing coalition (PS/Greens/NUPES-aligned) retains the Paris mayoralty in the 2026 municipal elections, with second-round results by March 30, 2026 confirming Hidalgo or a designated left successor as mayor with a margin of at least 3 percentage points over the leading right/centrist challenger.

• article 4 structural misfit

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  • pred-2026-05-09-378 The United States will not issue formal sanctions, invoke Article 4 NATO consultation, or publicly demand arms control compliance from Turkey regarding its announced ICBM program by 2026-06-20. Washington will respond at most via private diplomatic channels, rhetorical 'serious concern' statements, and possibly bilateral dialogue framing — all falling short of institutionally formalized action.

• assessment-contractor-complex

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  • pred-2026-03-27-121 The UK Spring Statement (delivered by 2026-03-31) will announce net reductions in working-age welfare benefit expenditure — framed as means-testing reforms, conditionality tightening, or efficiency measures — totalling at least £1 billion annually on OBR scoring.

• assessment-industrial complex

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  • pred-2026-03-23-087 The UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will announce welfare and/or disability benefit cuts or eligibility restrictions formally projected to save £5bn or more annually, with PIP eligibility tightening and/or UC work-capability conditionality intensification as the primary mechanism.

• asset-accumulation framing

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  • pred-2026-04-27-330 At least one G7 economy other than Canada will formally announce a new sovereign wealth fund or a qualifying expansion (>$10bn USD equivalent) of an existing public investment vehicle by 2026-06-22.

• asset-specificity transaction costs

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  • pred-2026-04-26-323 The BLS April 2026 non-farm payrolls report (releasing approximately May 2, 2026) will show total payroll job creation below 100,000, reflecting a tariff-driven investment freeze and hiring slowdown.

• asylum bifurcation

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  • pred-2026-03-17-015 The US Supreme Court will NOT issue a stay or preliminary injunction halting the administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status within 14 days of the March 17, 2026 expedited argument session (resolution by 2026-03-31).

• asymmetric switching costs

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  • pred-2026-04-07-171 The US and Iran will NOT produce any written diplomatic framework, joint communiqué, or publicly announced schedule for direct negotiations by April 21, 2026 — at most a procedural readout noting talks occurred.

• asymmetric switching-cost

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  • pred-2026-05-05-357 The US-China tariff standoff will persist without formal structural engagement through June 30, 2026 — no joint US-China statement on tariff negotiation, no ministerial-level or above bilateral negotiating session, and no publicly announced mutual tariff suspension on any product category will emerge before that date.

• asymmetric transaction costs of confirmation-then-failure

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  • pred-2026-04-11-205 Iran will not issue a formal public statement explicitly confirming participation in a second round of US-Iran diplomatic talks by April 25, 2026, instead maintaining strategic ambiguity through hedged ministerial language while backchannel engagement continues.

• attendance-as-price-signal

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  • pred-2026-04-10-199 The US-Pakistan-Iran Islamabad talks will NOT produce a publicly announced, jointly attributed statement, framework agreement, or ceasefire extension mechanism by April 20, 2026. Any communiqué issued will be a unilateral Pakistani facilitation summary rather than a jointly signed or jointly attributed document.

• audience cost asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-04-21-267 By May 5, 2026, neither the US nor Iran will publicly acknowledge the reported Islamabad back-channel talks through any jointly recognized framework, agreed formal agenda, or confirmed next-round meeting date; the public-denial/back-channel split will persist without official acknowledgment from either Tehran or Washington.

• audience costs

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  • pred-2026-04-07-171 The US and Iran will NOT produce any written diplomatic framework, joint communiqué, or publicly announced schedule for direct negotiations by April 21, 2026 — at most a procedural readout noting talks occurred.

• auditor

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  • The Compliance Conversion: Patriarchal Pidgin, the Auditor's Grammar, and the Court's Enforced Silence

• augural indicator / measurement authority cascade

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  • pred-2026-04-23-289 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP growth (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized real growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized.

• aumf — authorization for use of military force

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  • pred-2026-05-12-399 No US Congressional committee will hold formal hearings specifically on an Iran AUMF authorization or advance an emergency supplemental appropriations bill specifically for Iran military operations to floor vote by June 23, 2026; any Congressional activity will be limited to non-binding oversight measures (press releases, informal briefings, or non-binding resolutions introduced but not voted).

• austrian knowledge problem

  0 essays · 2 predictions

  • pred-2026-04-21-267 By May 5, 2026, neither the US nor Iran will publicly acknowledge the reported Islamabad back-channel talks through any jointly recognized framework, agreed formal agenda, or confirmed next-round meeting date; the public-denial/back-channel split will persist without official acknowledgment from either Tehran or Washington.
  • pred-2026-04-23-295 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no cut or hike in the post-meeting statement.

• authority

  1 essay · 0 predictions

  • The Spontaneous Cartel: Network Effects as Means-Testing Without an Examiner

• authority-chain blockage

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-05-20-405 By 2026-07-15, at least two US regulatory agencies currently experiencing confirmed leadership vacancies (including FDA following the head's resignation confirmed in May 2026) will have publicly missed a statutory deadline OR received a court ruling or published Inspector General report formally attributing documented operational failure to the vacancy cascade — with evidentiary basis in agency records, court dockets, or published IG reports.

• automatic stabilizer

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  • pred-2026-05-10-387 The House Agriculture Committee will approve a reconciliation markup including SNAP spending reductions and/or new or expanded work requirements before 2026-06-30, with eligibility restrictions (categorical eligibility elimination, ABAWD expansion, or BBCE elimination) carrying the primary fiscal scoring weight alongside work requirement language.

• automatic stabilizer removal

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  • pred-2026-04-24-307 The BEA advance estimate of Q1 2026 real GDP growth (released ~April 30, 2026) will show negative annualized growth — a technical contraction below 0% — driven primarily by a large negative net-exports contribution from pre-tariff import front-loading, compounded by suppressed fixed investment.

• automation

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  • Policy Brief: The Algorithmic Tribunal Gap

• axiom

  1 essay · 0 predictions

  • Policy Brief: The Algorithmic Tribunal Gap

• back-channel optimization signal

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-04-27-329 The United States and Iran will NOT issue any formal joint statement, agreed framework document, or publicly announced roadmap from their ongoing nuclear/sanctions diplomacy before May 11, 2026.

• back-channel vs. formal announcement

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  • pred-2026-03-28-141 No publicly announced meeting, de-escalation framework, or formal diplomatic signal between the US and Iran will emerge from Pakistan's mediation by April 11, 2026; back-channel activity will continue but remain below the public announcement threshold.

• back-channel-deniability

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-03-24-093 By April 7, 2026, no formal public confirmation of direct or Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic talks will be issued by official representatives of any of the three governments.

• balance-sheet-recession

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  • pred-2026-03-28-135 The OBR will revise its UK 2026 GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (March 30-31, 2026), specifically to a figure in the 0.7-0.99% range, signaling structural rather than cyclical deterioration.

• base effects

  0 essays · 2 predictions

  • pred-2026-04-08-183 US March 2026 headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released approximately April 10, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-05-356 The BLS April 2026 CPI report (~May 13 release) will show headline YoY inflation at or above 3.5%, consistent with measurable tariff pass-through crossing that threshold in the April measurement window.

• base-rate effects

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-05-06-362 The BLS April 2026 CPI release (expected May 13–14, 2026) will show headline CPI year-over-year at or above 3.5%, driven by Hormuz-disruption gasoline price transmission into the consumer basket.

• base-superstructure contradiction

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  • pred-2026-05-05-357 The US-China tariff standoff will persist without formal structural engagement through June 30, 2026 — no joint US-China statement on tariff negotiation, no ministerial-level or above bilateral negotiating session, and no publicly announced mutual tariff suspension on any product category will emerge before that date.

• base-superstructure contradiction (political crisis as symptomatic of material constraints)

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  • pred-2026-05-13-402 UK 10-year gilt yields will breach 5.5% at least once during the period May 13 – July 8, 2026, as compound political-fiscal stress from the Starmer ministerial crisis reinforces the pre-existing 27-year high borrowing cost trajectory.

• base-superstructure convergence

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  • pred-2026-03-18-025 The March 2026 FOMC Summary of Economic Projections will show the median 2026 rate-cut projection at 2 or fewer cuts (a downward revision from December's 3-cut median); Powell will use energy-supply-uncertainty language that gestures at Hormuz without explicit naming. The OR compound resolves TRUE primarily through the dot-plot pathway, with explicit Hormuz citation being the uncertain secondary condition.

• base-superstructure decoupling

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  • pred-2026-04-21-267 By May 5, 2026, neither the US nor Iran will publicly acknowledge the reported Islamabad back-channel talks through any jointly recognized framework, agreed formal agenda, or confirmed next-round meeting date; the public-denial/back-channel split will persist without official acknowledgment from either Tehran or Washington.

• base-superstructure fusion

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  • pred-2026-03-26-119 Fidesz wins at least 133 of 199 parliamentary seats in the April 2026 Hungarian election, retaining its two-thirds constitutional supermajority.

• base-superstructure lag

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  • pred-2026-05-04-347 The United States will NOT formally announce or initiate a named naval convoy or escort operation through the Strait of Hormuz by May 17, 2026; Trump's pledge will remain in the informal-rhetorical register, operationalized at most as enhanced naval presence or informal accompaniment without institutional formalization

• base-superstructure-contradiction

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  • pred-2026-03-19-047 At least 2 GCC member states beyond Qatar (most likely Saudi Arabia + Bahrain or UAE) will formally downgrade, suspend, or sever diplomatic relations with Iran by May 14, 2026, following Iran's strikes on Qatari LNG infrastructure.

• base-superstructure-lag

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  • pred-2026-04-19-249 No formal IPC Phase 5 famine declaration will be issued for any part of Gaza before May 3, 2026; current 'imminent famine' and Phase 5 risk language will persist as a stable institutional intermediate register without upgrade to formal declaration.

• base/superstructure contradiction

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  • pred-2026-04-17-239 The UK government will NOT table formal primary legislation nor sign a provisional framework agreement adopting EU single market rules by 2026-05-30; the most likely outcome is a political declaration, joint working group, or scoping statement that falls short of binding regulatory commitments.

• base/superstructure lag

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  • pred-2026-04-19-247 Brent crude oil will NOT close below $98/bbl on any trading day between April 21 and May 2, 2026, even if a formal US-Iran ceasefire or diplomatic breakthrough is announced during this window.

• baseline-maintenance

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  • pred-2026-03-20-049 February 2026 core PCE inflation (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.7% year-over-year, exceeding the January reading and the Fed's December SEP projection of 2.6%.

• bbce elimination

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-05-10-387 The House Agriculture Committee will approve a reconciliation markup including SNAP spending reductions and/or new or expanded work requirements before 2026-06-30, with eligibility restrictions (categorical eligibility elimination, ABAWD expansion, or BBCE elimination) carrying the primary fiscal scoring weight alongside work requirement language.

• bea advance estimate data architecture and trade-data completeness asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-04-23-289 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP growth (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized real growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized.

• bea advance estimate statistical noise and revision bias

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-04-26-319 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 GDP (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized quarter-over-quarter growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.5% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading statistical drag from tariff anticipation and compounded by capital investment deferral and fiscal contraction.

• bearish animal spirits

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  • pred-2026-05-08-370 Labour will fail to retain the largest-party position in the Welsh Senedd following the May 2026 elections, ending its uninterrupted plurality since 1999; Plaid Cymru will emerge as the party with the most seats.

• beauty contest equilibrium

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  • pred-2026-05-08-375 Keir Starmer will remain Labour Party leader on June 30, 2026, with no formal leadership confidence vote having been triggered at any point between May 8 and June 30, 2026.

• beauty-contest dynamics

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  • pred-2026-05-10-382 No formal vote of no confidence or leadership contest nomination will be publicly submitted against Keir Starmer as Labour leader before 2026-05-24.

• behavioral price signal

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  • pred-2026-04-27-326 A direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic contact will be publicly announced or confirmed before May 11, 2026, through any qualifying channel (formal bilateral statement, intermediary-confirmed back-channel via Oman, Russia, or Switzerland, or UN-corridor acknowledgment by any party to the exchange).

• belonging

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  • pred-2026-03-25-001 Initial jobless claims for the week ending March 22, 2026 (reported Thursday March 27, 2026) will come in at or above 230,000 seasonally adjusted.

• bias

  1 essay · 0 predictions

  • Policy Brief: Redirecting Pro-Natalist Spending Toward Class-Reproduction Cost Reduction

• bid-ask spread in diplomatic public signaling

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-04-11-205 Iran will not issue a formal public statement explicitly confirming participation in a second round of US-Iran diplomatic talks by April 25, 2026, instead maintaining strategic ambiguity through hedged ministerial language while backchannel engagement continues.

• bifurcation suppression

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  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.

• bilateral

  2 essays · 1 prediction

  • The Clean Ledger: Bilateral Grammar, the Footnote's Subordination, and the Specie That Restoration Cannot Redeem
  • The Generational Siege: Structural Reform vs. the Aging Mandate as Conflict Dynamic
  • pred-2026-04-28-001 Any US-Iran bilateral arrangement finalized before December 31, 2026 will be structured as a short-duration executive framework — interim understanding, temporary sanctions relief, or informal compliance arrangement — with a formal compliance or verification horizon of 4 years or fewer, failing to extend enforcement commitments beyond the current US presidential term (ending January 2029). If no arrangement is reached by December 31, 2026, the prediction is confirmed by default: the bilateral duration trap will have prevented agreement entirely.

• bilateral concession nash equilibrium

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  • pred-2026-03-28-133 The US Liberation Day tariff package announced April 2, 2026 will NOT be implemented cleanly on schedule — by April 11, 2026, announced bilateral exemptions, product exclusions, implementation delays, or country-specific carve-outs will collectively affect more than 20% of the originally targeted import value.

• bilateral demand deficiency

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  • pred-2026-05-08-374 The US-China trade talks currently underway will produce at least one publicly announced output — a framework agreement, a tariff reduction commitment, or a formal negotiating roadmap — by May 22, 2026.

• bilateral grammar trap

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  • pred-2026-05-05-357 The US-China tariff standoff will persist without formal structural engagement through June 30, 2026 — no joint US-China statement on tariff negotiation, no ministerial-level or above bilateral negotiating session, and no publicly announced mutual tariff suspension on any product category will emerge before that date.

• bilateral legitimacy cost

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  • pred-2026-03-26-113 The United States and Iran will NOT publicly announce the opening of formal direct bilateral nuclear negotiations on or before May 15, 2026; back-channel or third-party mediation activity may intensify but will not produce a jointly acknowledged formal bilateral announcement within this window.

• bilateral monopoly price failure

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  • pred-2026-05-10-384 No direct Putin-Zelensky bilateral meeting will take place, nor will confirmed dates for such a meeting be publicly announced by both parties, by 2026-06-21

• bilateral paradox of thrift

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  • pred-2026-05-05-357 The US-China tariff standoff will persist without formal structural engagement through June 30, 2026 — no joint US-China statement on tariff negotiation, no ministerial-level or above bilateral negotiating session, and no publicly announced mutual tariff suspension on any product category will emerge before that date.

• bilateral resolution as governance absorption

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  • pred-2026-04-07-167 No formal US government instrument — whether executive order, DoD directive, or binding interagency framework — explicitly delineating permitted versus prohibited uses of commercial AI systems in military and civilian government contexts will be issued by May 31, 2026; the Pentagon-Anthropic dispute will instead resolve through bilateral contract modification, informal DoD guidance, or non-binding working-group output that preserves administrative optionality.

• bilateral-knowledge-problem

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  • pred-2026-05-11-390 No direct US-Iran naval exchange, vessel seizure by either party, or US military strike on Iranian assets will occur within the 6-week window ending 2026-06-22; the sub-threshold harassment equilibrium holds below the direct-exchange threshold.

• bimodal scenario path under fundamental uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-05-04-349 The US Navy will successfully coordinate the transit of at least 3 additional commercially-operated vessels through the Strait of Hormuz under naval escort between 2026-05-04 and 2026-05-14, building on the reported 2-vessel precedent and Trump's public commitment to 'guide' stranded ships.

• blocking-coalition

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  • pred-2026-04-19-249 No formal IPC Phase 5 famine declaration will be issued for any part of Gaza before May 3, 2026; current 'imminent famine' and Phase 5 risk language will persist as a stable institutional intermediate register without upgrade to formal declaration.

• bls basket composition

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  • pred-2026-05-07-368 The US April 2026 CPI report (released approximately May 13-14) will show year-over-year headline inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating meaningful tariff-driven pass-through to consumer goods prices.

• bls birth-death model

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  • pred-2026-04-26-323 The BLS April 2026 non-farm payrolls report (releasing approximately May 2, 2026) will show total payroll job creation below 100,000, reflecting a tariff-driven investment freeze and hiring slowdown.
  • pred-2026-05-01-334 The April 2026 US nonfarm payrolls report (released May 2, 2026) will show net job creation above 150,000, with the headline number in the 160,000–195,000 range, sustained by BLS birth-death model contributions, post-pandemic labor-hoarding norms, and service-sector insulation from goods-sector tariff disruption — despite real underlying deterioration in job quality and a demand-side headwind from tariff-induced income compression and Iran war fiscal lag

• bls hedonic adjustment

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  • pred-2026-04-08-177 The March 2026 US headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released during the week of April 7–11, 2026, driven by tariff pass-through in goods categories and embedded energy cost from the pre-ceasefire Iran-Hormuz disruption.
  • pred-2026-05-11-388 The US CPI release on approximately May 12-14, 2026 (measuring April 2026 price levels) will show headline year-over-year inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating that tariff pass-through has cleared the institutional absorption buffers within 8-10 weeks of the April 2026 tariff escalation.

• bls measurement methodology

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  • pred-2026-04-08-183 US March 2026 headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released approximately April 10, 2026.

• bond market credibility signaling

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  • pred-2026-03-29-149 HM Government will formally announce at least two material privatization initiatives — including NHS trust transfers, public utility stake disposals, public land sales, infrastructure fund transfers, or functionally equivalent arm's-length asset transfers denominated as fiscal consolidation measures — by 2026-12-31, even if not labeled 'privatization' in ministerial statements.

• bond market discipline

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  • pred-2026-03-25-097 The OBR Spring Statement (March 26, 2026) will certify UK fiscal headroom below £5bn against the stability rule, most likely in the £1–3bn range; the Chancellor will maintain nominal compliance through within-rule accounting flexibility (investment/current reclassification, forecast-year adjustment, or spending timing shifts) rather than announcing a formal named revision to the stability rule itself.

• bond market discipline as proof regime

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  • pred-2026-03-23-087 The UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will announce welfare and/or disability benefit cuts or eligibility restrictions formally projected to save £5bn or more annually, with PIP eligibility tightening and/or UC work-capability conditionality intensification as the primary mechanism.

• bond market structural veto

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  • pred-2026-05-20-403 The UK House of Commons passes the Loyal Address following the King's Speech without a successful no-confidence amendment, on or before 2026-06-03.

• bond market vigilantism

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  • pred-2026-05-12-398 The UK government will NOT announce a formal emergency fiscal consolidation measure (unscheduled spending review, emergency budget statement, or explicit new multi-billion-pound spending cut commitment) by May 26, 2026; the government will instead deploy Chancellor statements reaffirming existing fiscal rules, coordinated Treasury-OBR messaging, and verbal commitments without concrete new cuts.

• bond-market-discipline

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  • pred-2026-03-27-121 The UK Spring Statement (delivered by 2026-03-31) will announce net reductions in working-age welfare benefit expenditure — framed as means-testing reforms, conditionality tightening, or efficiency measures — totalling at least £1 billion annually on OBR scoring.

• bottleneck mint / seigniorage architecture (hormuz as chokepoint generating extraction denominations)

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  • pred-2026-04-23-291 By May 7, 2026, the US government will announce at least one of the following: (1) formal new OFAC/Treasury sanctions specifically naming IRGC naval units involved in the seizure, (2) deployment orders for an additional carrier strike group to the Arabian Sea or Gulf of Oman, or (3) a direct diplomatic channel opening resulting in the seized vessel's release — with Option 1 as the primary mechanism at ≥75% internal probability.

• bottleneck-mint

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  • pred-2026-04-11-207 The UK government will NOT publicly announce or formally confirm a specific named military deployment or coalition mission mandate targeting Strait of Hormuz shipping security by April 25, 2026 — diplomatic language about 'discussions,' 'contingency planning,' or 'enhanced presence' does not satisfy the criterion.
  • pred-2026-04-11-213 By April 25, 2026, Iran will NOT satisfy both conditions simultaneously: (1) formal Iranian delegation participation in the Islamabad round AND (2) a substantive joint framework or communiqué explicitly addressing Hormuz access conditions with verifiable parameters. The joint probability of both conditions being met is approximately 8%.

• boundary

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  • Policy Brief: Minting Recognition at the Boundary
  • The Circulatory Boundary: Stranger-Domestication, Urbanization, and the Retaliatory Management of Flow

• bounded-demonstration-equilibrium

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  • pred-2026-03-19-039 Between March 19 and April 2, 2026, Iranian state forces (IRGC or Iranian military, not proxies) will execute at least one direct ballistic missile or drone strike explicitly claimed by Iran against Israeli military installations or US military assets in the Middle East region, following the killing of intelligence chief Khatib and Ali Larijani.

• bourgeois-federalism

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  • pred-2026-03-23-083 The Supreme Court of Canada will neither issue a substantive ruling striking down nor grant leave to appeal in a manner that substantially limits Quebec's Bill 21 (Act Respecting the Laicity of the State) before May 18, 2026.

• boycott

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  • pred-2026-05-20-001 Over the next 18 months, institutions facing organized boycotts or sanctions campaigns will increasingly convert the boycott itself into a novelty-broadcast that extends institutional lifespan rather than forcing reform. The mechanism: 'being boycotted' functions as an externally-supplied mortality-concealment device — it provides the institution with a narrative of embattlement ('under siege,' 'targeted,' 'persecuted') that substitutes for evidence of generative function. The boycott replaces the institution's exhausted capacity to self-denominate novelty (141's embalming broadcast) with an externally-generated drama of resistance. This will be observable as a structural pattern: boycotted institutions that adopt siege-identity framing will show slower rates of internal reform, leadership turnover, and mandate renegotiation than comparable institutions facing equivalent dysfunction without boycott pressure — because the boycott supplies the institutional drama that defers mortality-recognition.

• bricolage

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  • The Subsistence Ratchet: Technocratic Chunking, Denomination Collapse, and the Capture of Bricolage

• broker-as-entrepreneur

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  • pred-2026-05-10-386 A subsequent round of US-Iran indirect nuclear or Hormuz-related talks will be publicly confirmed or announced before 2026-05-24, following Iran's published response to the latest US framework proposal.

• buenos aires modal output vs. phase 1 modal output

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  • pred-2026-05-12-395 The Trump-Xi summit will produce a publicly announced trade framework containing at least one of: (a) named tariff reduction percentages, (b) identified sector carve-outs, or (c) explicit numerical purchase or trade-flow targets — before May 26, 2026. Any such framework will be at most semi-binding, without operative enforcement architecture.

• bureaucratic-subsistence ratchet

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  • pred-2026-04-21-269 Iraq's Council of Representatives will NOT formally confirm a new Prime Minister by June 7, 2026; the political vacancy will extend past that date, with at most a caretaker or placeholder nomination occurring within the 7-week window.

• burns fed institutional memory

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  • pred-2026-05-06-360 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at the June 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no rate reduction, despite ongoing tariff-driven and Hormuz-linked inflationary pressure and emerging signs of demand weakness.

• burns-era accommodation failure

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  • pred-2026-05-03-341 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting AND issue a statement with hawkish or hold-biased forward guidance that explicitly declines to signal rate cuts in H1 2026, citing elevated inflation uncertainty from tariff pass-through and energy price pressure.

• burns-precedent institutional scar tissue

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  • pred-2026-05-04-346 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, maintaining the current target range without adjustment of any magnitude.

• by-election amplification

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  • pred-2026-04-21-265 Reform UK will finish in second place ahead of the Conservative Party in the Birmingham by-election, while Labour retains the seat with a majority below 5,000 votes

• byrd rule

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  • pred-2026-05-10-387 The House Agriculture Committee will approve a reconciliation markup including SNAP spending reductions and/or new or expanded work requirements before 2026-06-30, with eligibility restrictions (categorical eligibility elimination, ABAWD expansion, or BBCE elimination) carrying the primary fiscal scoring weight alongside work requirement language.

• cabinet collective responsibility norm

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  • pred-2026-04-22-285 No UK cabinet minister will resign from government directly citing the Doyle job controversy, and no formal Labour Party no-confidence mechanism against Starmer will be triggered, before May 6, 2026.

• calculation destruction

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  • pred-2026-04-28-331 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show annualized real GDP growth below 1.0%, driven by a negative net-exports drag from tariff-anticipation import front-loading and suppressed gross private fixed investment from tariff-uncertainty-induced capital deferral.

• calculation impossibility

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  • pred-2026-03-29-145 The US ISM Manufacturing PMI for March 2026 will print below 48.0 upon release circa April 1, 2026, confirming manufacturing contraction consistent with compound tariff escalation and Hormuz-driven energy cost pass-through into manufacturing inputs.

• calculation-destruction

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  • pred-2026-03-28-139 The US March 2026 non-farm payrolls report (released April 3, 2026) will show job gains BELOW 150,000, while the unemployment rate holds at or below 4.2% — producing a split resolution where employment growth disappoints but the headline unemployment rate appears stable due to labor-supply contraction rather than demand recovery.

• cantillon cascade

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  • pred-2026-05-11-388 The US CPI release on approximately May 12-14, 2026 (measuring April 2026 price levels) will show headline year-over-year inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating that tariff pass-through has cleared the institutional absorption buffers within 8-10 weeks of the April 2026 tariff escalation.

• cantillon effect

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  • pred-2026-03-27-129 The BEA's February 2026 PCE release (~2026-03-28) will show core PCE year-over-year at or above 2.5%, AND at least one Federal Reserve official will issue a public statement within 48 hours of the release maintaining a data-dependent pause on rate cuts.
  • pred-2026-04-07-169 US headline CPI for March 2026 will print at or above 3.5% year-over-year when released approximately April 10, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-01-335 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing forward guidance consistent with continued data-dependency and no imminent directional move.
  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.

• cantillon effect lag

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  • pred-2026-04-06-157 The Bureau of Labor Statistics' March 2026 CPI report (expected release ~April 10, 2026) will show headline inflation at or above 3.5% year-over-year.

• cantillon effects

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  • pred-2026-03-25-099 The US February 2026 core PCE price index (year-over-year) will print at or above 2.6% when released on March 28, 2026
  • pred-2026-04-23-295 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no cut or hike in the post-meeting statement.

• capital capture of foreign policy

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  • pred-2026-05-09-378 The United States will not issue formal sanctions, invoke Article 4 NATO consultation, or publicly demand arms control compliance from Turkey regarding its announced ICBM program by 2026-06-20. Washington will respond at most via private diplomatic channels, rhetorical 'serious concern' statements, and possibly bilateral dialogue framing — all falling short of institutionally formalized action.

• capital circuit stabilization

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  • pred-2026-05-08-374 The US-China trade talks currently underway will produce at least one publicly announced output — a framework agreement, a tariff reduction commitment, or a formal negotiating roadmap — by May 22, 2026.

• capital deliberation cycle

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  • pred-2026-04-07-165 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 5, 2026 (released April 10, 2026) will come in BELOW 230,000, remaining consistent with pre-tariff baseline and within the structural lag window before tariff-shock displacement becomes visible in formal claims data.

• capital fraction conflict

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  • pred-2026-03-29-151 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include blanket tariffs of ≥10% on imports from at least one of EU, Japan, South Korea, or Mexico.
  • pred-2026-05-08-372 The United States will not conduct direct kinetic strikes on Iranian territory or Iranian military installations inside Iran by June 30, 2026; any kinetic response will remain outside Iranian borders — targeting Iranian naval vessels or oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, or Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria, or Yemen.

• capital fraction contradiction

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  • pred-2026-03-17-017 No publicly announced US-China presidential summit or scheduled Xi-Trump direct bilateral communication will be made by May 1, 2026. The relationship will remain in managed-tension equilibrium with back-channel activity but no formal announcement.

• capital fraction veto

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  • pred-2026-03-26-113 The United States and Iran will NOT publicly announce the opening of formal direct bilateral nuclear negotiations on or before May 15, 2026; back-channel or third-party mediation activity may intensify but will not produce a jointly acknowledged formal bilateral announcement within this window.

• capital gains tax discount

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  • pred-2026-05-12-397 The Australian Labor government's negative gearing and capital gains tax reform measures as announced in Budget 2026 will survive 14 days of parliamentary scrutiny through May 26, 2026, without the government publicly offering major concessions — defined as explicit scope reduction, new grandfathering provisions not present in the original budget announcement, or phase-in timeline extension — to crossbenchers or the opposition in response to parliamentary pressure.

• capital investment deferral under policy uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-04-26-319 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 GDP (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized quarter-over-quarter growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.5% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading statistical drag from tariff anticipation and compounded by capital investment deferral and fiscal contraction.

• capital investment freeze under knightian uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-04-24-307 The BEA advance estimate of Q1 2026 real GDP growth (released ~April 30, 2026) will show negative annualized growth — a technical contraction below 0% — driven primarily by a large negative net-exports contribution from pre-tariff import front-loading, compounded by suppressed fixed investment.

• capital strike

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  • pred-2026-04-26-323 The BLS April 2026 non-farm payrolls report (releasing approximately May 2, 2026) will show total payroll job creation below 100,000, reflecting a tariff-driven investment freeze and hiring slowdown.
  • pred-2026-04-28-331 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show annualized real GDP growth below 1.0%, driven by a negative net-exports drag from tariff-anticipation import front-loading and suppressed gross private fixed investment from tariff-uncertainty-induced capital deferral.

• capital structure distortion

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  • pred-2026-03-27-131 At least one of BYD, NIO, Li Auto, or XPENG will publicly announce production cuts, factory suspensions, or workforce reductions by 2026-05-08 (6 weeks from 2026-03-27), as domestic margin compression from the ongoing price war renders expansion uneconomical.

• capital structure fragility

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  • pred-2026-03-25-099 The US February 2026 core PCE price index (year-over-year) will print at or above 2.6% when released on March 28, 2026

• capital structure misalignment

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  • pred-2026-04-25-316 The BEA advance estimate released April 30, 2026 will show Q1 2026 real GDP growth as negative (below 0.0% annualized), with a point estimate in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading surge mechanically compressing the net-exports component and secondarily by consumer spending deceleration.

• capital structure temporal propagation

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  • pred-2026-03-29-153 The OBR's Spring Statement (March 31, 2026) will publish a UK 2026 GDP growth forecast strictly below 1.0%.

• capital-fraction divergence

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  • pred-2026-04-07-171 The US and Iran will NOT produce any written diplomatic framework, joint communiqué, or publicly announced schedule for direct negotiations by April 21, 2026 — at most a procedural readout noting talks occurred.

• capital-interest filter

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  • pred-2026-05-06-363 The WHO will NOT issue a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) or equivalent formal international health alert (e.g., WHO Grade 3 Emergency with international spread finding) for the South African cruise-ship human-to-human hantavirus strain before June 17, 2026.

• capital-structure propagation

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  • pred-2026-03-22-067 The BEA's February 2026 core PCE price index release (~March 28, 2026) will show core PCE inflation at or above 2.8% year-over-year.

• capital-structure-liquidation

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  • pred-2026-03-28-135 The OBR will revise its UK 2026 GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (March 30-31, 2026), specifically to a figure in the 0.7-0.99% range, signaling structural rather than cyclical deterioration.

• car template (touadéra precedent)

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  • pred-2026-04-25-318 The Malian transitional government will NOT formally declare a national state of emergency AND will NOT publicly request emergency military reinforcement from any external partner (Russia/Africa Corps successor, neighboring state, or the African Union) within 60 days of the late-April 2026 coordinated attacks.

• carbon-siege

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  • pred-2026-03-19-043 European TTF natural gas spot price will close above €45/MWh on at least 3 of the 5 trading days from March 20–26, 2026, as markets price in the confirmed 17% reduction in Qatar LNG capacity following Iranian strikes.

• carceral-industrial fraction

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  • pred-2026-04-23-299 The $70bn ICE/Border Patrol funding bill that passed the Senate will be signed into law by June 18, 2026.

• career-penalty structure

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  • pred-2026-05-10-382 No formal vote of no confidence or leadership contest nomination will be publicly submitted against Keir Starmer as Labour leader before 2026-05-24.

• carnival of reform

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  • pred-2026-05-01-336 Congress will not advance any war powers resolution, supplemental appropriations bill, or defunding amendment specifically addressing the Iran military operation to a committee vote by June 26, 2026.

• cartel

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  • The Spontaneous Cartel: Network Effects as Means-Testing Without an Examiner

• cartel organizational survival logic

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  • pred-2026-03-18-035 OPEC+ will convene an unscheduled emergency ministerial meeting OR issue a formal communiqué announcing a production policy adjustment (increase, cut, or readiness pledge) in direct response to the Gulf energy disruption by April 30, 2026.

• cartel pseudo-coordination under knowledge problem

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  • pred-2026-04-07-173 Lebanon's post-ceasefire government will remain formally intact through June 2, 2026 — no formal coalition withdrawal, no declared parliamentary majority loss, no cabinet dissolution — despite continued Israeli airstrikes and deepening sectarian fissures

• carve-out infrastructure

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  • pred-2026-03-28-133 The US Liberation Day tariff package announced April 2, 2026 will NOT be implemented cleanly on schedule — by April 11, 2026, announced bilateral exemptions, product exclusions, implementation delays, or country-specific carve-outs will collectively affect more than 20% of the originally targeted import value.

• cascade-dynamics

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  • pred-2026-03-19-047 At least 2 GCC member states beyond Qatar (most likely Saudi Arabia + Bahrain or UAE) will formally downgrade, suspend, or sever diplomatic relations with Iran by May 14, 2026, following Iran's strikes on Qatari LNG infrastructure.

• categorical eligibility

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  • pred-2026-05-10-387 The House Agriculture Committee will approve a reconciliation markup including SNAP spending reductions and/or new or expanded work requirements before 2026-06-30, with eligibility restrictions (categorical eligibility elimination, ABAWD expansion, or BBCE elimination) carrying the primary fiscal scoring weight alongside work requirement language.

• causal containment circuit

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  • pred-2026-04-26-322 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following the April 29–30, 2026 FOMC meeting AND will not issue explicit forward guidance committing to a rate cut at the June 2026 meeting; the statement will use 'data dependent' and 'elevated uncertainty' language while deferring any June characterization.

• causal dialogue trap

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  • pred-2026-04-07-163 By April 14, 2026, the Pakistan-brokered US-Iran diplomatic channel will produce at least one publicly announced output — framework agreement, joint communiqué, ceasefire proposal, or confirmed follow-on talks — rather than a US military strike order or announced total diplomatic collapse with no scheduled continuation.

• causation

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  • Policy Brief: The Modular Trap — Constitutional Architecture and the Dual Occupation Feedback Loop

• ceasefire symmetry

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  • pred-2026-03-25-101 Pakistan-mediated US-Iran contacts will NOT produce a publicly announced bilateral meeting, formal ceasefire talks, or nuclear negotiation framework by April 30, 2026

• ceasefire-as-extraction-totem

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  • pred-2026-04-25-315 The Lebanon ceasefire extended ~2026-04-21 will NOT collapse before its scheduled expiry (~2026-05-12) through a major Israeli ground operation launch or formal escalation declaration; instead it will reach expiry through incremental erosion, quiet non-renewal, or a brief additional extension.

• ceasefire-as-throughput

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  • pred-2026-04-07-163 By April 14, 2026, the Pakistan-brokered US-Iran diplomatic channel will produce at least one publicly announced output — framework agreement, joint communiqué, ceasefire proposal, or confirmed follow-on talks — rather than a US military strike order or announced total diplomatic collapse with no scheduled continuation.

• census

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  • pred-2026-04-10-001 By March 31, 2027, at least three of the ten largest technology companies by market capitalization (regardless of headquarter jurisdiction) will have adopted the EU AI Act's risk-classification taxonomy as their global default for AI product governance — applying the Act's prohibited, high-risk, limited-risk, and minimal-risk categories to all markets, not only the EU — rather than maintaining jurisdiction-specific compliance regimes. This corporate convergence will occur despite the absence of comparable legislation in the United States (and the Trump administration's active AI deregulation posture), driven by the interoperability requirement: maintaining separate classification systems for each jurisdiction's regulatory grammar is more expensive than adopting the most comprehensive existing standard as the global default. The EU's 'census of algorithms' — its categorization of AI systems into discrete risk levels, converting the continuous spectrum of AI capability into governable stock — becomes the operative global taxonomy through corporate interoperability decisions, not through diplomatic agreement or treaty convergence. The mechanism replicates the GDPR's data-sovereignty-to-convergence dynamic (analysis 187) at the AI governance layer, with the Atlantic fracture accelerating rather than impeding convergence: US companies hedge geopolitical risk by choosing the stricter standard as their global baseline, producing a split between the state demos (which the US government's deregulatory census counts as 'American innovation freed from red tape') and the corporate operative population (which operates on EU interoperability terms regardless of political jurisdiction).

• chart-preservation / parliamentary adaptation

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  • pred-2026-05-11-389 The UK King's Speech (delivered within 14 days of 2026-05-11) will include at least one of: (a) a housing supply or planning reform bill, (b) an AI or digital regulation framework bill, or (c) explicit defense spending legislation — confirming that Starmer's 'bolder action' rhetoric converts into a primary legislative program signal rather than remaining soft-instrument rhetoric

• chinese capital structural veto

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  • pred-2026-05-02-339 Iran will not conduct a significant escalation of Hormuz commercial shipping disruption — defined as three or more vessel seizures in a 30-day window, a formally declared exclusion zone, or a mine-laying operation targeting commercial traffic — between May 2 and June 15, 2026.

• chokepoint economics

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  • pred-2026-04-07-169 US headline CPI for March 2026 will print at or above 3.5% year-over-year when released approximately April 10, 2026.

• chokepoint rent

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  • pred-2026-05-06-358 Brent crude oil futures will NOT decline by more than 4% within 7 days of Trump's Project Freedom pause announcement (by May 13, 2026); expected drawdown is 1–3% before stabilization or partial reversal.

• chokepoint rent extraction

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  • pred-2026-04-10-201 Commercial tanker passage through the Strait of Hormuz will recover to at least 60% of pre-conflict baseline traffic volumes by April 24, 2026, following ceasefire diplomacy.

• chokepoint scarcity

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  • pred-2026-04-13-229 Brent crude oil will close above $100/barrel on at least 4 of the 5 trading days from April 14–18, 2026, given the announced US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

• chokepoint-rent extraction

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  • pred-2026-03-16-011 Tanker transit volume through the Strait of Hormuz will remain at least 40% below pre-conflict baseline through June 30, 2026, with durable rerouting of Gulf crude exports toward alternative corridors (Saudi East-West Pipeline, UAE Fujairah) becoming structurally embedded regardless of formal closure status.

• chunking

  1 essay · 0 predictions

  • The Subsistence Ratchet: Technocratic Chunking, Denomination Collapse, and the Capture of Bricolage

• cipher-accretion

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-03-17-017 No publicly announced US-China presidential summit or scheduled Xi-Trump direct bilateral communication will be made by May 1, 2026. The relationship will remain in managed-tension equilibrium with back-channel activity but no formal announcement.

• circuit of capital interruption

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  • pred-2026-03-16-007 Brent crude oil will close above $95/barrel on at least 7 of the 10 trading days spanning March 17–28, 2026, given ongoing US-Israeli strikes on Iran and continued selective Hormuz passage

• circuit rupture

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-03-16-011 Tanker transit volume through the Strait of Hormuz will remain at least 40% below pre-conflict baseline through June 30, 2026, with durable rerouting of Gulf crude exports toward alternative corridors (Saudi East-West Pipeline, UAE Fujairah) becoming structurally embedded regardless of formal closure status.

• circulation

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  • The Circulatory Boundary: Stranger-Domestication, Urbanization, and the Retaliatory Management of Flow
  • The Spontaneous Cartel: Network Effects as Means-Testing Without an Examiner
  • The Mobility Calibration Gap: Nationalism, Correlative Self-Legitimation, and the Circulatory Reproduction of Stratification

• circulation chokepoint

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-04-06-161 De facto majority halt of commercial Bab al-Mandeb transits—defined as sustained traffic at ≤50% of pre-October 2023 baseline due to voluntary rerouting and insurance market withdrawal—will persist through May 18, 2026, without requiring a formal Houthi closure declaration.

• circulation monopoly

  0 essays · 3 predictions

  • pred-2026-03-23-085 The April 2, 2026 'Liberation Day' reciprocal tariff announcement will include a universal baseline tariff of 10% or higher applied to all US imports regardless of country of origin.
  • pred-2026-03-23-089 No formal ceasefire agreement or publicly announced binding de-escalation framework between Iran and the United States will be announced by May 15, 2026, whether through Pakistan, Gulf-state, or direct mediation.
  • pred-2026-03-29-147 The US Department of Defense (via CENTCOM) will publicly confirm at least one new offensive airstrike against Houthi military infrastructure in Yemen between 2026-03-29 and 2026-04-05, citing the Houthi opening of a new operational front.

• circulation monopoly rent

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-03-26-117 By 2026-04-09, Iran will formally announce at least one of: (a) Strait of Hormuz passage restrictions or mandatory transit fees, or (b) publicly acknowledged retaliatory strikes against Israeli or US military assets, explicitly linked to the killing of Iran's naval chief.

• circulation monopoly rupture

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-03-24-095 TTF natural gas front-month spot price will close above €75/MWh on at least 6 of the 15 trading sessions from March 25 to April 14, 2026, reflecting sustained price elevation from the combined QatarEnergy LNG force majeure and Hormuz disruption shock.

• circulation-monopoly

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-03-28-137 Iran will NOT publicly announce an explicit fee structure, passage permit regime, or formal transit agreement for Strait of Hormuz commercial shipping by May 15, 2026; informal selective extraction, ad hoc escort demands, and insurance-market pressure will continue as the dominant extraction mode with no legible institutionalization.

• circulatory boundary

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  • pred-2026-05-02-338 The UK government will NOT table formal legislation, issue statutory guidance under existing public order powers, or announce an executive restriction specifically targeting categories of pro-Palestine protests by 2026-05-16. Starmer's government will sustain a rhetorical threat posture while confining actual operational restriction to case-by-case police conditions under existing Public Order Act authority, preserving categorical deniability.

• circulatory continuity signaling

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  • pred-2026-05-11-391 Brent crude oil spot price will NOT breach $95 per barrel on any trading day close between May 12 and May 18, 2026, despite the confirmed Strait of Hormuz cargo ship attack at Day 71+ of escalation — a spike of $4–8 intraday is plausible but sustained closes above $95 are not.

• civil-disobedience

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-05-09-001 The Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI report for April 2026 (all items, seasonally adjusted) will show a positive month-over-month change — i.e., the index will be higher than the March 2026 reading.

• class alliance reproduction

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-04-18-245 By May 31, 2026, no major GCC sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA/Mubadala/ADQ, Kuwait Investment Authority, or Qatar Investment Authority) will formally announce a strategic reduction in US dollar-denominated holdings or a new non-dollar allocation explicitly framed as a geopolitically-motivated portfolio rebalancing.

• class base decomposition

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-05-08-370 Labour will fail to retain the largest-party position in the Welsh Senedd following the May 2026 elections, ending its uninterrupted plurality since 1999; Plaid Cymru will emerge as the party with the most seats.

• class coalition fracture (marxist)

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  • pred-2026-04-25-317 The SNP will win fewer than 65 seats in the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament election, failing to secure an outright majority and producing a hung parliament requiring minority government or coalition/confidence-and-supply arrangements.

• class coalition stability

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-05-05-354 By June 30, 2026, Germany will formally announce a multi-year defense spending pathway that explicitly meets or exceeds the NATO 2% GDP floor AND cites the Bundestag-approved Schuldenbremse exemption (or a supplementary fiscal act) as its legal-fiscal basis — rather than leaving the commitment as a vague political pledge or a government-only white paper without legislative backing.

• class consolidation

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  • pred-2026-03-21-065 By 2026-05-01, Iran will NOT formally declare a nuclear-threshold posture (IAEA inspector suspension, 90%+ weapons-grade enrichment announcement, or NPT withdrawal) in response to the Natanz strike. Iran will instead pursue sub-threshold escalation through proxy operations, unannounced enrichment acceleration, and partial IAEA access restrictions while preserving strategic ambiguity as institutional leverage.

• class decomposition

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  • pred-2026-04-21-265 Reform UK will finish in second place ahead of the Conservative Party in the Birmingham by-election, while Labour retains the seat with a majority below 5,000 votes

• class discipline mechanism (bond vigilante as class actor enforcing fiscal orthodoxy)

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-05-13-402 UK 10-year gilt yields will breach 5.5% at least once during the period May 13 – July 8, 2026, as compound political-fiscal stress from the Starmer ministerial crisis reinforces the pre-existing 27-year high borrowing cost trajectory.

• class faction veto

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-04-22-287 No written framework, parameters document, or joint statement of principles on US-Iran nuclear de-escalation will be jointly announced by June 15, 2026; talks will remain in procedural or exploratory contact phase at best

• class geography of risk

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  • pred-2026-05-06-363 The WHO will NOT issue a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) or equivalent formal international health alert (e.g., WHO Grade 3 Emergency with international spread finding) for the South African cruise-ship human-to-human hantavirus strain before June 17, 2026.

• class interest

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  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.

• class-coalition incompatibility

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  • pred-2026-05-05-353 The Lula-Trump Washington meeting (week of May 5, 2026) will produce no formal bilateral trade instrument, explicit tariff-exemption commitment, or jointly signed framework document with operative trade language. The sole substantive output will be a ceremonial joint statement with non-binding aspirational language (e.g., 'exploring enhanced cooperation,' sector-level working groups) and no enforceable tariff provisions.

• class-discipline

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  • pred-2026-03-25-103 The announced 6-day junior doctors strike in England will proceed for at least 4 of its 6 scheduled days without a government-negotiated suspension agreement.

• class-faction coordination settlement

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  • pred-2026-05-04-346 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, maintaining the current target range without adjustment of any magnitude.

• class-fraction ceiling governance

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  • pred-2026-05-11-391 Brent crude oil spot price will NOT breach $95 per barrel on any trading day close between May 12 and May 18, 2026, despite the confirmed Strait of Hormuz cargo ship attack at Day 71+ of escalation — a spike of $4–8 intraday is plausible but sustained closes above $95 are not.

• class-fraction conflict

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  • pred-2026-04-10-203 By May 22, 2026, neither qualifying formal response will materialize: Beijing will not issue a state-level formal policy statement explicitly upgrading cross-strait engagement terms, and the DPP will not formally prohibit or legally constrain opposition cross-strait diplomatic contact through legislation or enforceable executive order.

• class-fraction lock-in and comprador veto

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  • pred-2026-05-10-384 No direct Putin-Zelensky bilateral meeting will take place, nor will confirmed dates for such a meeting be publicly announced by both parties, by 2026-06-21

• class-fraction realignment

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  • pred-2026-04-24-301 The Liberal Party of Canada under Mark Carney will win enough seats on April 28, 2026 to form government (minority or majority), and Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party will fail to form government.

• class-fraction stabilizers

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  • pred-2026-05-08-375 Keir Starmer will remain Labour Party leader on June 30, 2026, with no formal leadership confidence vote having been triggered at any point between May 8 and June 30, 2026.

• class-fraction transition asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-04-26-324 Within six weeks of the confirmed Orbán coalition election defeat (by 2026-06-07), the Hungarian forint will depreciate more than 8% against the euro, measured from the EUR/HUF rate on the day of confirmed defeat.

• class-fraction veto mechanisms

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  • pred-2026-04-24-305 US-Iran nuclear and sanctions negotiations will NOT produce a publicly acknowledged written framework or agreement-in-principle document by May 31, 2026. Talks will continue in back-channel form; any visible output will be verbal acknowledgments of 'progress' rather than a signed or jointly circulated text.

• class-fraction-internal-conflict

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  • pred-2026-03-25-105 By April 8, 2026, the US and Iran will NOT publicly confirm a scheduled direct or Oman-mediated bilateral meeting at deputy-foreign-minister level or above to discuss nuclear or military de-escalation terms.

• class-fractional interests

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  • pred-2026-04-24-311 No Russian warships will be permanently stationed at, and no Russian troops will be based at, Indian military facilities under the April 2026 Russia-India pact by June 19, 2026; the pact will remain a declaratory framework without operational basing. Transient port calls or joint exercises, if they occur, do not constitute falsification.

• class-rational monetary policy

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  • pred-2026-04-19-251 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing a statement that acknowledges elevated tariff-driven inflation while citing heightened uncertainty as grounds for inaction.

• class-solidarity

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  • pred-2026-03-19-047 At least 2 GCC member states beyond Qatar (most likely Saudi Arabia + Bahrain or UAE) will formally downgrade, suspend, or sever diplomatic relations with Iran by May 14, 2026, following Iran's strikes on Qatari LNG infrastructure.

• class-sorting as structural function

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  • pred-2026-04-20-261 By May 4, 2026, the US tariff refund system will face publicly documented administrative backlog, processing freeze, or formal capacity warning — sourced from CBP, USTR, a major trade publication (Journal of Commerce, Inside US Trade, Bloomberg), or a major trade association (NAM, NRF, or equivalent) — attributable to simultaneous mass filing pressure from thousands of importers at launch.

• class-state alignment

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  • pred-2026-04-19-255 The UK 'Starmer cover-up' controversy will remain contained as a media/parliamentary questions event with no vote of no confidence, no formal police referral gaining institutional traction, and no statutory inquiry announcement by May 3, 2026.

• class-stratified measurement

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  • pred-2026-04-18-241 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 19, 2026 (released April 24) will come in at or above 225,000, reflecting cumulative disruption from tariff-driven layoffs, federal workforce reductions, and associated secondary demand contraction.

• class-structural-pressure

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  • pred-2026-03-27-121 The UK Spring Statement (delivered by 2026-03-31) will announce net reductions in working-age welfare benefit expenditure — framed as means-testing reforms, conditionality tightening, or efficiency measures — totalling at least £1 billion annually on OBR scoring.

• clean

  1 essay · 0 predictions

  • The Clean Ledger: Bilateral Grammar, the Footnote's Subordination, and the Specie That Restoration Cannot Redeem

• clientelism

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-03-26-119 Fidesz wins at least 133 of 199 parliamentary seats in the April 2026 Hungarian election, retaining its two-thirds constitutional supermajority.

• cliff-edge threshold dynamics

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-03-26-119 Fidesz wins at least 133 of 199 parliamentary seats in the April 2026 Hungarian election, retaining its two-thirds constitutional supermajority.

• climate

  1 essay · 0 predictions

  • The Interest Trickster: Executive Temporality, Joy's Absence, and the Discount Rate as Governance Grammar

• coalition knowledge problem

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-03-29-149 HM Government will formally announce at least two material privatization initiatives — including NHS trust transfers, public utility stake disposals, public land sales, infrastructure fund transfers, or functionally equivalent arm's-length asset transfers denominated as fiscal consolidation measures — by 2026-12-31, even if not labeled 'privatization' in ministerial statements.

• coalition maintenance through performative action

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  • pred-2026-04-10-195 At least one unannounced tariff measure — executive order imposing new duties, retaliatory product list expansion, or formal suspension of a trade exemption — will be publicly announced by either the US or China between April 10–24, 2026, without having been publicly pre-signaled before April 10.

• coalition price-bidding

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  • pred-2026-04-23-293 By August 31, 2026, the Israeli government or IDF will formally designate and announce a named military operation or permanent administrative security zone in the northern West Bank (Jenin/Tulkarem corridor or broader), distinct from ad-hoc settler-violence responses — with Operation Iron Wall (January 2025) as the established baseline, meaning any successor named operation, formal escalation of Iron Wall into a permanent administrative zone, or new cabinet/IDF designation of a 'special security zone' with published geographic scope counts as resolution.

• coercive ambiguity

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-03-22-069 Iran will NOT formally suspend IAEA inspector access nor announce NPT withdrawal within 14 days of the Natanz strike — i.e., no formal suspension order or NPT withdrawal notice will be issued by 2026-04-05. Iran will instead escalate within the framework: accelerated enrichment, reduced inspector access, expulsion of specific personnel, and declaratory threats, while preserving formal treaty membership.

• coercive-monopoly

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-03-28-137 Iran will NOT publicly announce an explicit fee structure, passage permit regime, or formal transit agreement for Strait of Hormuz commercial shipping by May 15, 2026; informal selective extraction, ad hoc escort demands, and insurance-market pressure will continue as the dominant extraction mode with no legible institutionalization.

• coercive-rent maintenance

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  • pred-2026-05-02-339 Iran will not conduct a significant escalation of Hormuz commercial shipping disruption — defined as three or more vessel seizures in a 30-day window, a formally declared exclusion zone, or a mine-laying operation targeting commercial traffic — between May 2 and June 15, 2026.

• collective action

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  • pred-2026-04-11-215 By June 6, 2026, at least one NATO member state will formally request renegotiation of US military base access terms or publicly announce an official government review of existing basing agreements, explicitly citing Atlantic realignment dynamics, reduced US credibility, or the Iran crisis as justification.

• collective action / common-pool coalition defection

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-04-26-320 In the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senedd, and English local elections, Labour's combined vote share in comparable contested areas falls more than 5 percentage points below its 2024 general election baseline, as measured by Electoral Commission and council/Senedd/Holyrood declared results by May 10, 2026.

• collective action aggregation

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-04-25-316 The BEA advance estimate released April 30, 2026 will show Q1 2026 real GDP growth as negative (below 0.0% annualized), with a point estimate in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading surge mechanically compressing the net-exports component and secondarily by consumer spending deceleration.

• collective action asymmetry

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-03-20-051 The UK Spring Statement on 26 March 2026 will announce a real-terms freeze or below-CPI uprating of Universal Credit and/or Housing Benefit, with savings explicitly or transparently linked (in the same fiscal event) to increased defence and/or infrastructure expenditure.

• collective action asymmetry (concentrated vs. diffuse interests)

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  • pred-2026-05-08-371 The Trump administration will obtain an emergency appellate stay of the Court of International Trade ruling invalidating the 10% global baseline tariffs within 14 days of that ruling (by May 21, 2026), keeping the tariffs operationally in force pending full appellate review.

• collective action closure via external sanctioning

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-05-05-354 By June 30, 2026, Germany will formally announce a multi-year defense spending pathway that explicitly meets or exceeds the NATO 2% GDP floor AND cites the Bundestag-approved Schuldenbremse exemption (or a supplementary fiscal act) as its legal-fiscal basis — rather than leaving the commitment as a vague political pledge or a government-only white paper without legislative backing.

• collective action commons governance

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-05-10-386 A subsequent round of US-Iran indirect nuclear or Hormuz-related talks will be publicly confirmed or announced before 2026-05-24, following Iran's published response to the latest US framework proposal.

• collective action coordination

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-05-08-370 Labour will fail to retain the largest-party position in the Welsh Senedd following the May 2026 elections, ending its uninterrupted plurality since 1999; Plaid Cymru will emerge as the party with the most seats.

• collective action coordination failure

  0 essays · 2 predictions

  • pred-2026-04-19-247 Brent crude oil will NOT close below $98/bbl on any trading day between April 21 and May 2, 2026, even if a formal US-Iran ceasefire or diplomatic breakthrough is announced during this window.
  • pred-2026-04-26-321 Armed groups will NOT execute a sustained incursion into Bamako's urban core (inside the Boulevard ring road) within 8 weeks of the April 25, 2026 coordinated attacks near Bamako airport — perimeter and peri-urban pressure will continue and likely escalate, but the Boulevard threshold will not be crossed with forces operating inside the ring continuously for 48 hours or more.

• collective action coordination threshold

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-05-11-388 The US CPI release on approximately May 12-14, 2026 (measuring April 2026 price levels) will show headline year-over-year inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating that tariff pass-through has cleared the institutional absorption buffers within 8-10 weeks of the April 2026 tariff escalation.

• collective action counter-offer

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  • pred-2026-05-03-342 The United States will NOT formally announce a net reduction of at least 10,000 troops stationed in Germany, Italy, or Spain by June 28, 2026 — despite Germany's 'anticipated' withdrawal signal and Spain/Italy being cited as next candidates. Withdrawal signaling will continue verbally and through informal restructuring, but no DoD-level formal announcement triggering NDAA notification thresholds will materialize within this window.

• collective action deadlock

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper

• collective action deficit

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-03-23-087 The UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will announce welfare and/or disability benefit cuts or eligibility restrictions formally projected to save £5bn or more annually, with PIP eligibility tightening and/or UC work-capability conditionality intensification as the primary mechanism.

• collective action equilibrium

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-03-25-107 The UK government's proposed ban on cryptocurrency political donations will pass second reading in the House of Commons by 15 May 2026.

• collective action equilibrium in committee decision-making

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  • pred-2026-03-19-037 The FOMC's March 2026 SEP (released March 19) will show the median federal funds rate projection for end-2026 at 3.75–4.00% or higher (implying ≤2 cuts from 4.25–4.50%), AND the median 2026 PCE inflation projection will be revised upward from the December 2025 baseline of 2.5%.

• collective action equilibrium under reputational constraint

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  • pred-2026-05-03-341 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting AND issue a statement with hawkish or hold-biased forward guidance that explicitly declines to signal rate cuts in H1 2026, citing elevated inflation uncertainty from tariff pass-through and energy price pressure.

• collective action failure

  0 essays · 9 predictions

  • pred-2026-03-21-055 The left-wing coalition (PS/Greens/NUPES-aligned) retains the Paris mayoralty in the 2026 municipal elections, with second-round results by March 30, 2026 confirming Hidalgo or a designated left successor as mayor with a margin of at least 3 percentage points over the leading right/centrist challenger.
  • pred-2026-03-21-059 TTF natural gas spot prices will average above €55/MWh across the April 1–28, 2026 window, driven by Qatar LNG facility strike and sustained Gulf conflict disruption to spot cargo flows into Europe.
  • pred-2026-03-23-085 The April 2, 2026 'Liberation Day' reciprocal tariff announcement will include a universal baseline tariff of 10% or higher applied to all US imports regardless of country of origin.
  • pred-2026-03-24-095 TTF natural gas front-month spot price will close above €75/MWh on at least 6 of the 15 trading sessions from March 25 to April 14, 2026, reflecting sustained price elevation from the combined QatarEnergy LNG force majeure and Hormuz disruption shock.
  • pred-2026-03-27-131 At least one of BYD, NIO, Li Auto, or XPENG will publicly announce production cuts, factory suspensions, or workforce reductions by 2026-05-08 (6 weeks from 2026-03-27), as domestic margin compression from the ongoing price war renders expansion uneconomical.
  • pred-2026-03-29-151 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include blanket tariffs of ≥10% on imports from at least one of EU, Japan, South Korea, or Mexico.
  • pred-2026-04-07-169 US headline CPI for March 2026 will print at or above 3.5% year-over-year when released approximately April 10, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-19-255 The UK 'Starmer cover-up' controversy will remain contained as a media/parliamentary questions event with no vote of no confidence, no formal police referral gaining institutional traction, and no statutory inquiry announcement by May 3, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-21-265 Reform UK will finish in second place ahead of the Conservative Party in the Birmingham by-election, while Labour retains the seat with a majority below 5,000 votes

• collective action failure (plp)

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-05-12-398 The UK government will NOT announce a formal emergency fiscal consolidation measure (unscheduled spending review, emergency budget statement, or explicit new multi-billion-pound spending cut commitment) by May 26, 2026; the government will instead deploy Chancellor statements reaffirming existing fiscal rules, coordinated Treasury-OBR messaging, and verbal commitments without concrete new cuts.

• collective action failure in coalition

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  • pred-2026-05-08-372 The United States will not conduct direct kinetic strikes on Iranian territory or Iranian military installations inside Iran by June 30, 2026; any kinetic response will remain outside Iranian borders — targeting Iranian naval vessels or oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, or Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria, or Yemen.

• collective action failure in disinflation

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  • pred-2026-03-22-075 The BEA will report US February 2026 PCE price index year-over-year at or above 2.6% when released in the final week of March 2026.

• collective action failure in iea coordination

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  • pred-2026-03-16-007 Brent crude oil will close above $95/barrel on at least 7 of the 10 trading days spanning March 17–28, 2026, given ongoing US-Israeli strikes on Iran and continued selective Hormuz passage

• collective action failure within hierarchies

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  • pred-2026-04-12-221 The Orthodox Easter ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine will hold at the formal threshold through April 20, 2026 — neither side will formally announce a breakdown NOR execute verified large-scale coordinated offensive operations — while tactical violations continue below the threshold of acknowledged defection.

• collective action filtering

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  • pred-2026-04-28-332 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds target rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, with no dissents favoring a rate cut.

• collective action free-rider equilibrium

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  • pred-2026-05-11-392 The United States and China will not publicly issue a joint statement, framework, or communiqué specifically addressing the Iran-Hormuz crisis before May 25, 2026; any diplomatic output from Trump-Xi Iran talks will take the form of separate unilateral readouts with convergent but not jointly authored language.

• collective action free-rider problem in legislative accountability

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-05-12-399 No US Congressional committee will hold formal hearings specifically on an Iran AUMF authorization or advance an emergency supplemental appropriations bill specifically for Iran military operations to floor vote by June 23, 2026; any Congressional activity will be limited to non-binding oversight measures (press releases, informal briefings, or non-binding resolutions introduced but not voted).

• collective action front-loading

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-04-28-331 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show annualized real GDP growth below 1.0%, driven by a negative net-exports drag from tariff-anticipation import front-loading and suppressed gross private fixed investment from tariff-uncertainty-induced capital deferral.

• collective action front-running as aggregate demand destruction

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-04-23-289 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP growth (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized real growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized.

• collective action lock

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-04-21-267 By May 5, 2026, neither the US nor Iran will publicly acknowledge the reported Islamabad back-channel talks through any jointly recognized framework, agreed formal agenda, or confirmed next-round meeting date; the public-denial/back-channel split will persist without official acknowledgment from either Tehran or Washington.

• collective action norm shift

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-04-09-187 March 2026 US CPI (all items, year-over-year) prints at or above 3.0% when released approximately April 10–11, 2026.

• collective action problem

  0 essays · 6 predictions

  • pred-2026-03-26-119 Fidesz wins at least 133 of 199 parliamentary seats in the April 2026 Hungarian election, retaining its two-thirds constitutional supermajority.
  • pred-2026-04-18-245 By May 31, 2026, no major GCC sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA/Mubadala/ADQ, Kuwait Investment Authority, or Qatar Investment Authority) will formally announce a strategic reduction in US dollar-denominated holdings or a new non-dollar allocation explicitly framed as a geopolitically-motivated portfolio rebalancing.
  • pred-2026-05-04-347 The United States will NOT formally announce or initiate a named naval convoy or escort operation through the Strait of Hormuz by May 17, 2026; Trump's pledge will remain in the informal-rhetorical register, operationalized at most as enhanced naval presence or informal accompaniment without institutional formalization
  • pred-2026-05-08-375 Keir Starmer will remain Labour Party leader on June 30, 2026, with no formal leadership confidence vote having been triggered at any point between May 8 and June 30, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-11-393 No formal no-confidence motion in Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader will be tabled by Labour MPs, and Starmer will not publicly announce his resignation as party leader, before July 6, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-20-404 The Coalition will successfully force material amendments or procedural delay, preventing the 2026 Budget capital gains tax and negative gearing reform from passing in substantially its introduced form in the Australian Senate by 2026-06-03.

• collective action problem in heterogeneous union

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  • pred-2026-04-10-197 The European Commission will NOT formally adopt a comprehensive retaliatory tariff or countermeasure package targeting US goods that clearly goes beyond existing WTO-route safeguard measures by May 31, 2026; instead, the Commission will adopt a phased framework authorization, safeguard extension, or Anti-Coercion Instrument activation notice that preserves escalation optionality without crossing the 'comprehensive, beyond WTO-route' threshold specified.

• collective action suppression

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  • pred-2026-04-13-233 By June 7, 2026, at least one major Gulf sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA, or Kuwait KIA) will publicly announce a reduction in USD-denominated asset holdings or a new allocation to non-USD reserve assets.

• collective action threshold

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  • pred-2026-04-22-279 None of the three formal challenge triggers materialize by May 6, 2026: no cabinet-level resignation directly linked to the Robbins/diplomatic-job revelations, no formal Labour leadership nomination letter signed by 20+ MPs, and no government defeat on a Commons confidence-adjacent motion.

• collective action trap

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  • pred-2026-04-22-283 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show negative real GDP growth (annualized rate below 0%), likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by a net exports collapse from pre-tariff import front-loading.
  • pred-2026-05-01-336 Congress will not advance any war powers resolution, supplemental appropriations bill, or defunding amendment specifically addressing the Iran military operation to a committee vote by June 26, 2026.

• collective action veto

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  • pred-2026-05-12-396 The UK government will not table a revised welfare reform bill containing substantive conditionality or activity requirements before July 7, 2026.

• collective defense activation threshold

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  • pred-2026-03-18-031 Iran or an Iran-directed proxy will execute a publicly confirmed kinetic attack on Gulf Arab energy infrastructure (oil/gas facilities, pipelines, export terminals, or refinery complexes) by April 1, 2026.

• collective-action

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  • pred-2026-03-28-137 Iran will NOT publicly announce an explicit fee structure, passage permit regime, or formal transit agreement for Strait of Hormuz commercial shipping by May 15, 2026; informal selective extraction, ad hoc escort demands, and insurance-market pressure will continue as the dominant extraction mode with no legible institutionalization.

• collective-action inertia

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  • pred-2026-04-26-322 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following the April 29–30, 2026 FOMC meeting AND will not issue explicit forward guidance committing to a rate cut at the June 2026 meeting; the statement will use 'data dependent' and 'elevated uncertainty' language while deferring any June characterization.

• collective-action retention equilibrium

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  • pred-2026-05-01-334 The April 2026 US nonfarm payrolls report (released May 2, 2026) will show net job creation above 150,000, with the headline number in the 160,000–195,000 range, sustained by BLS birth-death model contributions, post-pandemic labor-hoarding norms, and service-sector insulation from goods-sector tariff disruption — despite real underlying deterioration in job quality and a demand-side headwind from tariff-induced income compression and Iran war fiscal lag

• collective-action-coordination-failure

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  • pred-2026-04-11-207 The UK government will NOT publicly announce or formally confirm a specific named military deployment or coalition mission mandate targeting Strait of Hormuz shipping security by April 25, 2026 — diplomatic language about 'discussions,' 'contingency planning,' or 'enhanced presence' does not satisfy the criterion.

• collective-action-failure

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  • pred-2026-03-18-027 The Eurozone composite flash PMI for March 2026 will print below 49.0, signaling economic contraction, with the manufacturing sub-index leading at 46–47 and services dragging the composite to approximately 48.2–48.8.

• collective-action-internal

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  • pred-2026-04-11-213 By April 25, 2026, Iran will NOT satisfy both conditions simultaneously: (1) formal Iranian delegation participation in the Islamabad round AND (2) a substantive joint framework or communiqué explicitly addressing Hormuz access conditions with verifiable parameters. The joint probability of both conditions being met is approximately 8%.

• collective-action-problem

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  • pred-2026-05-04-348 By June 15, 2026 (six weeks after Mélenchon's announcement), at least one of PS, PCF, or EELV will have issued a formal public statement — via party leadership, national bureau, or official spokesperson — either endorsing Mélenchon's candidacy or explicitly opposing it / demanding a negotiated primary process.
  • pred-2026-05-10-385 Keir Starmer will neither face a formal no-confidence motion from within the Parliamentary Labour Party (requiring ≥82 MP signatures) nor publicly announce his resignation before 2026-05-24.

• collective-action-suppression

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  • pred-2026-03-27-125 By May 15, 2026, the EU Council will advance formal ratification proceedings without incorporating the European Parliament's stated conditions into the treaty text; those conditions will be acknowledged only through non-binding side instruments (political declarations, Commission implementation commitments, or joint interpretive statements).

• collective-action-trap

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  • pred-2026-05-11-390 No direct US-Iran naval exchange, vessel seizure by either party, or US military strike on Iranian assets will occur within the 6-week window ending 2026-06-22; the sub-threshold harassment equilibrium holds below the direct-exchange threshold.

• command-legitimacy convention collapse

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  • pred-2026-04-27-327 By 2026-07-26 (within 90 days of Defence Minister Camara's assassination), the Malian transitional government will experience at least one of: (a) a formal military coup replacing the Goïta-led junta, (b) an officially announced dissolution or restructuring of the unified military command, or (c) a publicly acknowledged loss of administrative control over a named provincial capital. The most probable pathway is acknowledged provincial capital loss or announced command restructuring; a formal coup is the least likely criterion due to novel Wagner/AES transaction-cost constraints absent in prior Malian episodes.

• commensuration

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  • pred-2026-05-09-001 The Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI report for April 2026 (all items, seasonally adjusted) will show a positive month-over-month change — i.e., the index will be higher than the March 2026 reading.

• commission credibility logic

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  • pred-2026-04-17-237 Hungary's post-Orbán government will NOT produce a formal public commitment to EU rule-of-law reforms sufficient for the European Commission to announce a disbursement schedule for the frozen €35bn within 14 days of 2026-04-17 (by 2026-05-01). The Hungarian government will likely signal commitment within this window; the Commission disbursement schedule announcement will not follow within it.

• commission-displacement

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  • pred-2026-04-11-207 The UK government will NOT publicly announce or formally confirm a specific named military deployment or coalition mission mandate targeting Strait of Hormuz shipping security by April 25, 2026 — diplomatic language about 'discussions,' 'contingency planning,' or 'enhanced presence' does not satisfy the criterion.

• commission-tribunal diagnostic circuit

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  • pred-2026-03-28-143 Neither a binding UNSC humanitarian access resolution (or emergency framework) specifically for Lebanon nor a formal Lebanese government Chapter VII request will be adopted or lodged by May 15, 2026. The UNSC output will be limited to non-binding language, presidential statements, or renewed UNIFIL mandate discussions.

• commitment credibility deficit

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  • pred-2026-03-26-113 The United States and Iran will NOT publicly announce the opening of formal direct bilateral nuclear negotiations on or before May 15, 2026; back-channel or third-party mediation activity may intensify but will not produce a jointly acknowledged formal bilateral announcement within this window.

• commitment device

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  • pred-2026-03-23-085 The April 2, 2026 'Liberation Day' reciprocal tariff announcement will include a universal baseline tariff of 10% or higher applied to all US imports regardless of country of origin.

• commitment problem

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  • pred-2026-03-17-021 No publicly announced operative agreement (ceasefire extension, hostage deal, or binding framework document with operational parameters) will emerge from the Cairo talks by March 28, 2026. Any public statement issued will be a procedural communiqué or vague progress declaration without binding commitments on ceasefire duration, hostage releases, or withdrawal timelines.

• commitment-device

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  • pred-2026-03-25-103 The announced 6-day junior doctors strike in England will proceed for at least 4 of its 6 scheduled days without a government-negotiated suspension agreement.

• committee equilibrium

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  • pred-2026-05-01-335 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing forward guidance consistent with continued data-dependency and no imminent directional move.

• commodity-nutrition bundle severance

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  • pred-2026-05-10-387 The House Agriculture Committee will approve a reconciliation markup including SNAP spending reductions and/or new or expanded work requirements before 2026-06-30, with eligibility restrictions (categorical eligibility elimination, ABAWD expansion, or BBCE elimination) carrying the primary fiscal scoring weight alongside work requirement language.

• commodity-windfall automatic stabiliser

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  • pred-2026-05-12-394 Treasurer Chalmers' 2026 Federal Budget will declare a nominal fiscal surplus AND include direct household cost-of-living transfers (energy rebates, rent assistance top-ups, targeted payment extensions) exceeding AUD 3 billion in aggregate across all line items.

• common pool resource governance vacuum

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  • pred-2026-03-27-001 By April 7, 2026, at least one of the following will occur: (a) a formal GCC joint communiqué condemning or demanding reversal of Iran's Hormuz transit fees, (b) a CENTCOM freedom-of-navigation counter-announcement or declaration regarding the transit fee, or (c) Brent crude closing above $108/barrel on at least one trading day — with Brent crossing $108 as the primary resolution pathway (est. 70% standalone probability) and a CENTCOM declaration as the secondary (est. 55% standalone), and GCC communiqué as the least likely of the three (est. 28% standalone).

• common-pool depletion

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  • pred-2026-03-25-097 The OBR Spring Statement (March 26, 2026) will certify UK fiscal headroom below £5bn against the stability rule, most likely in the £1–3bn range; the Chancellor will maintain nominal compliance through within-rule accounting flexibility (investment/current reclassification, forecast-year adjustment, or spending timing shifts) rather than announcing a formal named revision to the stability rule itself.

• common-pool governance failure

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  • pred-2026-03-17-023 The United States will NOT execute or publicly authorize direct military strikes on Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026. Proxy-level operations, Iranian-controlled external asset targeting (IRGC positions in Syria/Iraq, Houthi infrastructure), and covert harassment will remain the dominant pressure mode. No White House or DoD public authorization of strikes framed as targeting Iran itself.

• common-pool governance vacuum

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  • pred-2026-04-19-253 The US-Pakistan-Iran diplomatic track will NOT produce a publicly announced tangible output — no joint communiqué, agreed framework, or confirmed next round of direct/indirect talks — by May 3, 2026; the ceiling outcome is an informal 'constructive discussions' readout below the threshold of tangible diplomatic product.

• common-pool legitimacy

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  • pred-2026-05-07-364 Labour will lose net control of at least 3 councils and at least 150 council seats in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, confirming a major Reform/Green pincer surge.

• common-pool resource

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  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.
  • pred-2026-05-20-403 The UK House of Commons passes the Loyal Address following the King's Speech without a successful no-confidence amendment, on or before 2026-06-03.

• common-pool resource depletion

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  • pred-2026-04-22-279 None of the three formal challenge triggers materialize by May 6, 2026: no cabinet-level resignation directly linked to the Robbins/diplomatic-job revelations, no formal Labour leadership nomination letter signed by 20+ MPs, and no government defeat on a Commons confidence-adjacent motion.

• common-pool resource dynamics

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  • pred-2026-04-10-203 By May 22, 2026, neither qualifying formal response will materialize: Beijing will not issue a state-level formal policy statement explicitly upgrading cross-strait engagement terms, and the DPP will not formally prohibit or legally constrain opposition cross-strait diplomatic contact through legislation or enforceable executive order.

• common-pool resource framing

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  • pred-2026-05-13-400 The UK King's Speech, if delivered by 2026-05-27, will include at least one piece of primary legislation explicitly targeting NHS waiting-list reduction or housing supply as a named headline domestic bill — not merely a white paper, green paper, or regulatory commitment.

• common-pool resource governance degradation

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  • pred-2026-05-12-399 No US Congressional committee will hold formal hearings specifically on an Iran AUMF authorization or advance an emergency supplemental appropriations bill specifically for Iran military operations to floor vote by June 23, 2026; any Congressional activity will be limited to non-binding oversight measures (press releases, informal briefings, or non-binding resolutions introduced but not voted).

• common-pool resource governance failure

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  • pred-2026-03-29-147 The US Department of Defense (via CENTCOM) will publicly confirm at least one new offensive airstrike against Houthi military infrastructure in Yemen between 2026-03-29 and 2026-04-05, citing the Houthi opening of a new operational front.

• common-pool resource overextraction (ostrom)

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  • pred-2026-04-25-317 The SNP will win fewer than 65 seats in the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament election, failing to secure an outright majority and producing a hung parliament requiring minority government or coalition/confidence-and-supply arrangements.

• commons governance

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  • pred-2026-04-06-161 De facto majority halt of commercial Bab al-Mandeb transits—defined as sustained traffic at ≤50% of pre-October 2023 baseline due to voluntary rerouting and insurance market withdrawal—will persist through May 18, 2026, without requiring a formal Houthi closure declaration.

• commons governance breakdown

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  • pred-2026-03-17-017 No publicly announced US-China presidential summit or scheduled Xi-Trump direct bilateral communication will be made by May 1, 2026. The relationship will remain in managed-tension equilibrium with back-channel activity but no formal announcement.

• commons governance failure

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  • pred-2026-03-16-011 Tanker transit volume through the Strait of Hormuz will remain at least 40% below pre-conflict baseline through June 30, 2026, with durable rerouting of Gulf crude exports toward alternative corridors (Saudi East-West Pipeline, UAE Fujairah) becoming structurally embedded regardless of formal closure status.

• commons logic (ambiguity as shared resource)

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  • pred-2026-04-19-255 The UK 'Starmer cover-up' controversy will remain contained as a media/parliamentary questions event with no vote of no confidence, no formal police referral gaining institutional traction, and no statutory inquiry announcement by May 3, 2026.

• commons-depletion

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  • pred-2026-03-25-103 The announced 6-day junior doctors strike in England will proceed for at least 4 of its 6 scheduled days without a government-negotiated suspension agreement.

• commons-tragedy / overgrazing

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  • pred-2026-04-20-261 By May 4, 2026, the US tariff refund system will face publicly documented administrative backlog, processing freeze, or formal capacity warning — sourced from CBP, USTR, a major trade publication (Journal of Commerce, Inside US Trade, Bloomberg), or a major trade association (NAM, NRF, or equivalent) — attributable to simultaneous mass filing pressure from thousands of importers at launch.

• communiqué-without-commitment

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  • pred-2026-03-18-035 OPEC+ will convene an unscheduled emergency ministerial meeting OR issue a formal communiqué announcing a production policy adjustment (increase, cut, or readiness pledge) in direct response to the Gulf energy disruption by April 30, 2026.

• compact renegotiation

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  • pred-2026-04-13-233 By June 7, 2026, at least one major Gulf sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA, or Kuwait KIA) will publicly announce a reduction in USD-denominated asset holdings or a new allocation to non-USD reserve assets.

• competitive federalism

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  • pred-2026-04-09-191 By June 4, 2026, at least 3 US states (most likely from NY, CA, MA, IL, CO, or WA) will publicly announce or formally launch corporate securities enforcement actions or new regulatory frameworks explicitly framed in official communications — press releases, legislative testimony, or formal AG statements — as filling the enforcement vacuum created by the SEC chair's withdrawal from corporate policing.

• completed circuit

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  • pred-2026-05-02-337 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, maintaining the current target range with no cut and no hike, citing elevated supply-side inflation and 'heightened uncertainty' as grounds for continued data-dependence.

• completion-of-path

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  • pred-2026-04-23-299 The $70bn ICE/Border Patrol funding bill that passed the Senate will be signed into law by June 18, 2026.

• complexity

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  • Policy Brief: The Etymology Trap in Institutional Reform

• compliance osmosis

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  • pred-2026-04-22-285 No UK cabinet minister will resign from government directly citing the Doyle job controversy, and no formal Labour Party no-confidence mechanism against Starmer will be triggered, before May 6, 2026.

• compliance spectrum

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  • pred-2026-03-17-015 The US Supreme Court will NOT issue a stay or preliminary injunction halting the administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status within 14 days of the March 17, 2026 expedited argument session (resolution by 2026-03-31).
  • pred-2026-03-20-051 The UK Spring Statement on 26 March 2026 will announce a real-terms freeze or below-CPI uprating of Universal Credit and/or Housing Benefit, with savings explicitly or transparently linked (in the same fiscal event) to increased defence and/or infrastructure expenditure.

• compliance-spectrum

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  • pred-2026-03-20-049 February 2026 core PCE inflation (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.7% year-over-year, exceeding the January reading and the Fed's December SEP projection of 2.6%.
  • pred-2026-03-20-053 The European Commission will NOT formally invoke the Gas Security of Supply Regulation (2017/1938 or successor) or authorize coordinated strategic reserve drawdowns in response to Qatar LNG supply disruption by May 15, 2026. Instead, the Commission will activate softer coordination instruments: EU Energy Platform convening, emergency supply monitoring, joint procurement facilitation, and Commission communications — without crossing the formal solidarity-trigger or drawdown-authorization threshold.

• compliance-spectrum preference for structural over explicit cuts

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  • pred-2026-03-20-051 The UK Spring Statement on 26 March 2026 will announce a real-terms freeze or below-CPI uprating of Universal Credit and/or Housing Benefit, with savings explicitly or transparently linked (in the same fiscal event) to increased defence and/or infrastructure expenditure.

• compositional capture

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  • pred-2026-04-11-211 Fidesz-KDNP retains parliamentary majority and government formation capacity in Hungary's April 2026 national vote; Péter Magyar's Tisza opposition achieves a polling-competitive performance but fails to translate vote proximity into a decisive seat majority — final governing-coalition seat share remains above 50%.

• compound event probability

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  • pred-2026-04-17-237 Hungary's post-Orbán government will NOT produce a formal public commitment to EU rule-of-law reforms sufficient for the European Commission to announce a disbursement schedule for the frozen €35bn within 14 days of 2026-04-17 (by 2026-05-01). The Hungarian government will likely signal commitment within this window; the Commission disbursement schedule announcement will not follow within it.

• compound shock

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  • pred-2026-03-29-145 The US ISM Manufacturing PMI for March 2026 will print below 48.0 upon release circa April 1, 2026, confirming manufacturing contraction consistent with compound tariff escalation and Hormuz-driven energy cost pass-through into manufacturing inputs.

• comprador accumulation

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  • pred-2026-03-28-143 Neither a binding UNSC humanitarian access resolution (or emergency framework) specifically for Lebanon nor a formal Lebanese government Chapter VII request will be adopted or lodged by May 15, 2026. The UNSC output will be limited to non-binding language, presidential statements, or renewed UNIFIL mandate discussions.

• comprador fraction accumulation model

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  • pred-2026-03-22-077 By May 15, 2026, the EU will formally approve a Ukraine financial support package of €35bn or more — either through Hungarian consent obtained via bilateral side-payment (cohesion fund releases or rule-of-law concessions) or through a mechanism that structurally reduces Hungary's formal veto surface (ERA instrument backed by frozen Russian asset revenues, enhanced cooperation, or G7 extraordinary-revenue vehicle).

• comprador mediation

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  • pred-2026-03-28-141 No publicly announced meeting, de-escalation framework, or formal diplomatic signal between the US and Iran will emerge from Pakistan's mediation by April 11, 2026; back-channel activity will continue but remain below the public announcement threshold.

• comprador realignment

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  • pred-2026-04-25-318 The Malian transitional government will NOT formally declare a national state of emergency AND will NOT publicly request emergency military reinforcement from any external partner (Russia/Africa Corps successor, neighboring state, or the African Union) within 60 days of the late-April 2026 coordinated attacks.

• comprador unlock logic

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  • pred-2026-04-20-259 The Lebanon-Israel direct talks on April 24, 2026 will end without a written joint communiqué, agreed withdrawal timeline, or formal security framework within 14 days (by May 4, 2026); the most probable outcome is a procedural statement affirming 'constructive dialogue' and scheduling a follow-on session, with no binding deliverable.

• comprador vs. national bourgeoisie

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  • pred-2026-04-10-203 By May 22, 2026, neither qualifying formal response will materialize: Beijing will not issue a state-level formal policy statement explicitly upgrading cross-strait engagement terms, and the DPP will not formally prohibit or legally constrain opposition cross-strait diplomatic contact through legislation or enforceable executive order.

• concentrated-benefit / dispersed-cost asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-04-23-299 The $70bn ICE/Border Patrol funding bill that passed the Senate will be signed into law by June 18, 2026.

• concentrated-benefits/diffuse-costs collective-action structure

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  • pred-2026-03-26-109 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include a publicly stated blanket tariff rate of 10% or higher on EU goods in non-automotive, non-steel sectors, confirmed in official White House or Federal Register communication on or before April 4, 2026.

• concentrated-interest vs. diffuse-beneficiary asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-05-20-404 The Coalition will successfully force material amendments or procedural delay, preventing the 2026 Budget capital gains tax and negative gearing reform from passing in substantially its introduced form in the Australian Senate by 2026-06-03.

• concentration heuristic

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  • pred-2026-05-02-337 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, maintaining the current target range with no cut and no hike, citing elevated supply-side inflation and 'heightened uncertainty' as grounds for continued data-dependence.

• conditionality

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  • pred-2026-03-27-121 The UK Spring Statement (delivered by 2026-03-31) will announce net reductions in working-age welfare benefit expenditure — framed as means-testing reforms, conditionality tightening, or efficiency measures — totalling at least £1 billion annually on OBR scoring.

• conditionality as political subordination

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  • pred-2026-04-21-275 By June 16, 2026, international Gaza reconstruction pledges announced at any formal conference or donor coordination mechanism will nominally total at least $5B USD, but no operational disbursement mechanism will exist that has transferred capital to Gaza-based entities — leaving commitments as unfunded declarations without a functioning payment architecture.

• confessional coalition inertia

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  • pred-2026-04-07-173 Lebanon's post-ceasefire government will remain formally intact through June 2, 2026 — no formal coalition withdrawal, no declared parliamentary majority loss, no cabinet dissolution — despite continued Israeli airstrikes and deepening sectarian fissures

• confessional compact material-base destruction

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  • pred-2026-04-08-185 Lebanon will experience at least one of: (a) formal government collapse with failure to form a replacement within 30 days, (b) resumption of large-scale armed conflict involving at least one non-state actor and Lebanese state forces with >50 combat deaths in a single week, or (c) internationally recognized de facto territorial partition acknowledged by 3+ UN Security Council members — by October 8, 2026.

• confessional institutional gridlock

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  • pred-2026-03-28-143 Neither a binding UNSC humanitarian access resolution (or emergency framework) specifically for Lebanon nor a formal Lebanese government Chapter VII request will be adopted or lodged by May 15, 2026. The UNSC output will be limited to non-binding language, presidential statements, or renewed UNIFIL mandate discussions.

• confirmation-destroys-arbitrage

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  • pred-2026-03-23-081 By April 6, 2026, at least one publicly confirmed instance of direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic communication will occur — through the Omani channel, a UN interlocutor, or an official statement from any party acknowledging that talks are underway — as opposed to continued public escalation or formal rejection of negotiations on all fronts.

• conflict inflation

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  • pred-2026-03-22-075 The BEA will report US February 2026 PCE price index year-over-year at or above 2.6% when released in the final week of March 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-05-356 The BLS April 2026 CPI report (~May 13 release) will show headline YoY inflation at or above 3.5%, consistent with measurable tariff pass-through crossing that threshold in the April measurement window.

• conflict-inflation

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  • pred-2026-03-27-129 The BEA's February 2026 PCE release (~2026-03-28) will show core PCE year-over-year at or above 2.5%, AND at least one Federal Reserve official will issue a public statement within 48 hours of the release maintaining a data-dependent pause on rate cuts.

• congressional oversight

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  • pred-2026-05-01-336 Congress will not advance any war powers resolution, supplemental appropriations bill, or defunding amendment specifically addressing the Iran military operation to a committee vote by June 26, 2026.

• consensus-institution-inertia

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  • pred-2026-04-19-249 No formal IPC Phase 5 famine declaration will be issued for any part of Gaza before May 3, 2026; current 'imminent famine' and Phase 5 risk language will persist as a stable institutional intermediate register without upgrade to formal declaration.

• consent-not-amendment

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  • pred-2026-03-27-125 By May 15, 2026, the EU Council will advance formal ratification proceedings without incorporating the European Parliament's stated conditions into the treaty text; those conditions will be acknowledged only through non-binding side instruments (political declarations, Commission implementation commitments, or joint interpretive statements).

• conservation

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  • Policy Brief: Minting Recognition at the Boundary

• conservation circuit

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  • pred-2026-03-29-151 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include blanket tariffs of ≥10% on imports from at least one of EU, Japan, South Korea, or Mexico.

• consociational lock-in

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  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.

• consolidation-forecast feedback loop

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  • pred-2026-03-22-073 The OBR's Spring Statement 2026 forecast will project UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 at or below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Statement projection of approximately 1.6–1.7%.

• constant capital cost inflation

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  • pred-2026-03-29-145 The US ISM Manufacturing PMI for March 2026 will print below 48.0 upon release circa April 1, 2026, confirming manufacturing contraction consistent with compound tariff escalation and Hormuz-driven energy cost pass-through into manufacturing inputs.

• constitutional backing depreciation

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  • pred-2026-04-26-324 Within six weeks of the confirmed Orbán coalition election defeat (by 2026-06-07), the Hungarian forint will depreciate more than 8% against the euro, measured from the EUR/HUF rate on the day of confirmed defeat.

• constitutional challenge as switching cost

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  • pred-2026-04-10-203 By May 22, 2026, neither qualifying formal response will materialize: Beijing will not issue a state-level formal policy statement explicitly upgrading cross-strait engagement terms, and the DPP will not formally prohibit or legally constrain opposition cross-strait diplomatic contact through legislation or enforceable executive order.

• constitutional property-rights incompatibility

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  • pred-2026-05-10-384 No direct Putin-Zelensky bilateral meeting will take place, nor will confirmed dates for such a meeting be publicly announced by both parties, by 2026-06-21

• constitutional-insulation

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  • pred-2026-03-23-083 The Supreme Court of Canada will neither issue a substantive ruling striking down nor grant leave to appeal in a manner that substantially limits Quebec's Bill 21 (Act Respecting the Laicity of the State) before May 18, 2026.

• constitutionalism

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  • Policy Brief: The Modular Trap — Constitutional Architecture and the Dual Occupation Feedback Loop

• constraint

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  • Policy Brief: Governing Through the Grammar's Limit — Counterfactual Rehearsal, Contagious Shocks, and the Adaptation Trap

• constraint architecture

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  • pred-2026-03-15-003 At least one major G7 economy will announce new import tariffs or domestic industrial subsidies in Q2-Q3 2026 (April–September 2026) explicitly framed as 'protecting workers,' 'industrial fairness,' or equivalent labor-solidarity language, where independent distributional analysis confirms the primary economic beneficiary is an upstream extractive or capital-intensive monopoly sector rather than the downstream labor force named in the announcement.
  • pred-2026-03-16-011 Tanker transit volume through the Strait of Hormuz will remain at least 40% below pre-conflict baseline through June 30, 2026, with durable rerouting of Gulf crude exports toward alternative corridors (Saudi East-West Pipeline, UAE Fujairah) becoming structurally embedded regardless of formal closure status.
  • pred-2026-03-19-041 The Japanese government will publicly reject, formally challenge, or announce a counter-proposal to the reported ~$6bn SoftBank fee embedded in US bilateral trade deal terms by April 16, 2026 — most likely reframing the demand as an investment pledge or FDI commitment rather than issuing a clean structural rejection.

• constraint-architecture

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  • pred-2026-03-22-071 The European Union will formally announce a retaliatory tariff package against US goods — with specific named product lists and stated rates — on or before 2026-05-03, though implementation will likely be suspended or staged pending negotiations.

• constructivist deadline failure

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  • pred-2026-04-21-271 US-Iran nuclear negotiations will not produce a formal framework agreement or substantive joint statement with specific parameters before April 30, 2026; the most likely outcome is either a minimal procedural signal (announced next-round schedule or anodyne communiqué) or quiet continuation without formal public output — not a genuine breakthrough and not outright collapse.

• constructivist fiscal rules

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  • pred-2026-03-25-097 The OBR Spring Statement (March 26, 2026) will certify UK fiscal headroom below £5bn against the stability rule, most likely in the £1–3bn range; the Chancellor will maintain nominal compliance through within-rule accounting flexibility (investment/current reclassification, forecast-year adjustment, or spending timing shifts) rather than announcing a formal named revision to the stability rule itself.

• contagion

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  • Policy Brief: Governing Through the Grammar's Limit — Counterfactual Rehearsal, Contagious Shocks, and the Adaptation Trap

• contractual pricing cycles

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  • pred-2026-04-08-183 US March 2026 headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released approximately April 10, 2026.

• contractual repricing lag

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  • pred-2026-05-05-356 The BLS April 2026 CPI report (~May 13 release) will show headline YoY inflation at or above 3.5%, consistent with measurable tariff pass-through crossing that threshold in the April measurement window.

• controlled-escalation equilibrium

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  • pred-2026-03-17-023 The United States will NOT execute or publicly authorize direct military strikes on Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026. Proxy-level operations, Iranian-controlled external asset targeting (IRGC positions in Syria/Iraq, Houthi infrastructure), and covert harassment will remain the dominant pressure mode. No White House or DoD public authorization of strikes framed as targeting Iran itself.

• convention collapse

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  • pred-2026-04-11-215 By June 6, 2026, at least one NATO member state will formally request renegotiation of US military base access terms or publicly announce an official government review of existing basing agreements, explicitly citing Atlantic realignment dynamics, reduced US credibility, or the Iran crisis as justification.
  • pred-2026-05-11-391 Brent crude oil spot price will NOT breach $95 per barrel on any trading day close between May 12 and May 18, 2026, despite the confirmed Strait of Hormuz cargo ship attack at Day 71+ of escalation — a spike of $4–8 intraday is plausible but sustained closes above $95 are not.

• convention coordination

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  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper

• convention formation under knightian uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-05-04-349 The US Navy will successfully coordinate the transit of at least 3 additional commercially-operated vessels through the Strait of Hormuz under naval escort between 2026-05-04 and 2026-05-14, building on the reported 2-vessel precedent and Trump's public commitment to 'guide' stranded ships.

• convention-anchoring under fundamental uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-05-09-378 The United States will not issue formal sanctions, invoke Article 4 NATO consultation, or publicly demand arms control compliance from Turkey regarding its announced ICBM program by 2026-06-20. Washington will respond at most via private diplomatic channels, rhetorical 'serious concern' statements, and possibly bilateral dialogue framing — all falling short of institutionally formalized action.

• convention-default

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  • pred-2026-03-23-081 By April 6, 2026, at least one publicly confirmed instance of direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic communication will occur — through the Omani channel, a UN interlocutor, or an official statement from any party acknowledging that talks are underway — as opposed to continued public escalation or formal rejection of negotiations on all fronts.

• convention-dependent stability

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  • pred-2026-04-08-181 The US-Iran ceasefire will hold through April 22, 2026, without either US or Iranian forces conducting offensive strikes against each other's assets or proxies at brigade scale or above; sub-threshold proxy incidents will occur but will not trigger principal-level escalation.

• convention-following under fundamental uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-03-26-117 By 2026-04-09, Iran will formally announce at least one of: (a) Strait of Hormuz passage restrictions or mandatory transit fees, or (b) publicly acknowledged retaliatory strikes against Israeli or US military assets, explicitly linked to the killing of Iran's naval chief.

• convention-format dependency under fundamental uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-03-23-089 No formal ceasefire agreement or publicly announced binding de-escalation framework between Iran and the United States will be announced by May 15, 2026, whether through Pakistan, Gulf-state, or direct mediation.

• convergence ratchet

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  • pred-2026-03-19-041 The Japanese government will publicly reject, formally challenge, or announce a counter-proposal to the reported ~$6bn SoftBank fee embedded in US bilateral trade deal terms by April 16, 2026 — most likely reframing the demand as an investment pledge or FDI commitment rather than issuing a clean structural rejection.

• convergence-contract

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  • pred-2026-03-20-053 The European Commission will NOT formally invoke the Gas Security of Supply Regulation (2017/1938 or successor) or authorize coordinated strategic reserve drawdowns in response to Qatar LNG supply disruption by May 15, 2026. Instead, the Commission will activate softer coordination instruments: EU Energy Platform convening, emergency supply monitoring, joint procurement facilitation, and Commission communications — without crossing the formal solidarity-trigger or drawdown-authorization threshold.

• convergence-ratchet

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  • pred-2026-03-22-071 The European Union will formally announce a retaliatory tariff package against US goods — with specific named product lists and stated rates — on or before 2026-05-03, though implementation will likely be suspended or staged pending negotiations.

• conversation

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  • The Sacrifice-Flip: Spin, Sit-In, and the Dual Register of Cost-Bearing

• convertibility

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  • pred-2026-03-28-137 Iran will NOT publicly announce an explicit fee structure, passage permit regime, or formal transit agreement for Strait of Hormuz commercial shipping by May 15, 2026; informal selective extraction, ad hoc escort demands, and insurance-market pressure will continue as the dominant extraction mode with no legible institutionalization.

• convertibility sacrifice

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  • pred-2026-03-18-025 The March 2026 FOMC Summary of Economic Projections will show the median 2026 rate-cut projection at 2 or fewer cuts (a downward revision from December's 3-cut median); Powell will use energy-supply-uncertainty language that gestures at Hormuz without explicit naming. The OR compound resolves TRUE primarily through the dot-plot pathway, with explicit Hormuz citation being the uncertain secondary condition.

• coordination failure

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  • pred-2026-04-22-279 None of the three formal challenge triggers materialize by May 6, 2026: no cabinet-level resignation directly linked to the Robbins/diplomatic-job revelations, no formal Labour leadership nomination letter signed by 20+ MPs, and no government defeat on a Commons confidence-adjacent motion.
  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.
  • pred-2026-04-26-324 Within six weeks of the confirmed Orbán coalition election defeat (by 2026-06-07), the Hungarian forint will depreciate more than 8% against the euro, measured from the EUR/HUF rate on the day of confirmed defeat.
  • pred-2026-05-10-382 No formal vote of no confidence or leadership contest nomination will be publicly submitted against Keir Starmer as Labour leader before 2026-05-24.

• coordination failure post-bute house agreement

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  • pred-2026-04-25-317 The SNP will win fewer than 65 seats in the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament election, failing to secure an outright majority and producing a hung parliament requiring minority government or coalition/confidence-and-supply arrangements.

• coordination problem

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  • pred-2026-05-20-403 The UK House of Commons passes the Loyal Address following the King's Speech without a successful no-confidence amendment, on or before 2026-06-03.

• coordination trap

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  • pred-2026-04-18-245 By May 31, 2026, no major GCC sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA/Mubadala/ADQ, Kuwait Investment Authority, or Qatar Investment Authority) will formally announce a strategic reduction in US dollar-denominated holdings or a new non-dollar allocation explicitly framed as a geopolitically-motivated portfolio rebalancing.

• coordination-failure resolution

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  • pred-2026-04-12-223 The Hungarian opposition coalition led by TISZA will fail to deny Fidesz its parliamentary supermajority (≥133 seats) in the April 2026 elections — Fidesz will retain constitutional amendment capacity.

• coordination-multiplier

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  • pred-2026-03-19-047 At least 2 GCC member states beyond Qatar (most likely Saudi Arabia + Bahrain or UAE) will formally downgrade, suspend, or sever diplomatic relations with Iran by May 14, 2026, following Iran's strikes on Qatari LNG infrastructure.

• core pce

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  • pred-2026-03-23-079 The Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE price index at or above 2.8% year-over-year when data releases on or around March 28, 2026.

• correlated double-exposure

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  • pred-2026-04-12-227 By June 7, 2026, at least one major GCC sovereign wealth fund (ADIA, PIF, QIA, or KIA) will publicly announce a formal reallocation strategy reducing US-denominated asset exposure by 10%+ or establishing a new European/Swiss-domiciled investment vehicle, explicitly citing Iran-war geopolitical risk or Hormuz corridor uncertainty as justification.

• correlation

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  • The Mobility Calibration Gap: Nationalism, Correlative Self-Legitimation, and the Circulatory Reproduction of Stratification

• cost-push / demand-pull conflation

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  • pred-2026-03-18-025 The March 2026 FOMC Summary of Economic Projections will show the median 2026 rate-cut projection at 2 or fewer cuts (a downward revision from December's 3-cut median); Powell will use energy-supply-uncertainty language that gestures at Hormuz without explicit naming. The OR compound resolves TRUE primarily through the dot-plot pathway, with explicit Hormuz citation being the uncertain secondary condition.

• cost-push demand destruction

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  • pred-2026-03-27-127 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast to below 1.5% in the Spring Statement (due 2026-03-31), down from approximately 2.0% in the Autumn Statement 2025, citing Hormuz-driven energy costs and trade uncertainty.

• cost-push inflation

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  • pred-2026-03-21-063 The February 2026 US core PCE price index will print at or above 2.5% year-over-year when released on or around March 28, 2026, sustaining the Fed's pause posture and contradicting near-term market rate-cut pricing.
  • pred-2026-03-22-067 The BEA's February 2026 core PCE price index release (~March 28, 2026) will show core PCE inflation at or above 2.8% year-over-year.
  • pred-2026-03-22-075 The BEA will report US February 2026 PCE price index year-over-year at or above 2.6% when released in the final week of March 2026.
  • pred-2026-03-23-079 The Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE price index at or above 2.8% year-over-year when data releases on or around March 28, 2026.
  • pred-2026-03-25-099 The US February 2026 core PCE price index (year-over-year) will print at or above 2.6% when released on March 28, 2026
  • pred-2026-04-06-157 The Bureau of Labor Statistics' March 2026 CPI report (expected release ~April 10, 2026) will show headline inflation at or above 3.5% year-over-year.
  • pred-2026-04-07-169 US headline CPI for March 2026 will print at or above 3.5% year-over-year when released approximately April 10, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-08-177 The March 2026 US headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released during the week of April 7–11, 2026, driven by tariff pass-through in goods categories and embedded energy cost from the pre-ceasefire Iran-Hormuz disruption.
  • pred-2026-04-08-183 US March 2026 headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released approximately April 10, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-09-187 March 2026 US CPI (all items, year-over-year) prints at or above 3.0% when released approximately April 10–11, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-24-303 The FOMC will vote to hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, with no dissents favoring an immediate cut or hike.
  • pred-2026-05-05-356 The BLS April 2026 CPI report (~May 13 release) will show headline YoY inflation at or above 3.5%, consistent with measurable tariff pass-through crossing that threshold in the April measurement window.
  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.
  • pred-2026-05-06-362 The BLS April 2026 CPI release (expected May 13–14, 2026) will show headline CPI year-over-year at or above 3.5%, driven by Hormuz-disruption gasoline price transmission into the consumer basket.
  • pred-2026-05-07-368 The US April 2026 CPI report (released approximately May 13-14) will show year-over-year headline inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating meaningful tariff-driven pass-through to consumer goods prices.
  • pred-2026-05-11-388 The US CPI release on approximately May 12-14, 2026 (measuring April 2026 price levels) will show headline year-over-year inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating that tariff pass-through has cleared the institutional absorption buffers within 8-10 weeks of the April 2026 tariff escalation.

• cost-push inflation via tariff pass-through

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  • pred-2026-03-19-037 The FOMC's March 2026 SEP (released March 19) will show the median federal funds rate projection for end-2026 at 3.75–4.00% or higher (implying ≤2 cuts from 4.25–4.50%), AND the median 2026 PCE inflation projection will be revised upward from the December 2025 baseline of 2.5%.

• cost-push policy antinomy

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  • pred-2026-04-23-295 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no cut or hike in the post-meeting statement.

• cost-push trap vs. demand-pull inflation

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  • pred-2026-04-27-328 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing no change to the target range.

• cost-push vs demand-pull inflation

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  • pred-2026-04-19-251 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing a statement that acknowledges elevated tariff-driven inflation while citing heightened uncertainty as grounds for inaction.
  • pred-2026-04-28-332 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds target rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, with no dissents favoring a rate cut.
  • pred-2026-05-01-335 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing forward guidance consistent with continued data-dependency and no imminent directional move.
  • pred-2026-05-03-341 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting AND issue a statement with hawkish or hold-biased forward guidance that explicitly declines to signal rate cuts in H1 2026, citing elevated inflation uncertainty from tariff pass-through and energy price pressure.

• cost-push vs. demand-pull conflation

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  • pred-2026-05-05-355 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, AND the post-meeting statement and Powell press conference will not signal that a rate cut is imminent (i.e., will not pre-commit to or strongly imply a June 2026 cut, defined as no shift to >70% market-implied probability of June cut immediately post-conference).

• cost-push vs. demand-pull inflation classification

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  • pred-2026-05-06-360 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at the June 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no rate reduction, despite ongoing tariff-driven and Hormuz-linked inflationary pressure and emerging signs of demand weakness.

• cost-push-inflation

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  • pred-2026-03-17-019 The Bank of England MPC will hold the Bank Rate at 4.5% at its March 19-20 meeting, with a vote split of at least 7-2 (hold-cut), meaning 2 or more members dissent in favor of a 25bp cut.
  • pred-2026-03-20-049 February 2026 core PCE inflation (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.7% year-over-year, exceeding the January reading and the Fed's December SEP projection of 2.6%.

• costly-signaling

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  • pred-2026-05-03-343 A fourth formal round of Iran-US nuclear negotiations will NOT be publicly announced or formally scheduled by 2026-05-17, despite the US having formally responded to Iran's latest peace proposal.

• counterfactual

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  • Policy Brief: Governing Through the Grammar's Limit — Counterfactual Rehearsal, Contagious Shocks, and the Adaptation Trap

• coupling

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  • The Split Address: Coupling, Nihilism, and the Diaspora's Dialogue Problem

• coupling architecture

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  • pred-2026-03-23-085 The April 2, 2026 'Liberation Day' reciprocal tariff announcement will include a universal baseline tariff of 10% or higher applied to all US imports regardless of country of origin.

• court

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  • The Compliance Conversion: Patriarchal Pidgin, the Auditor's Grammar, and the Court's Enforced Silence

• cpi basket weights

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  • pred-2026-05-06-362 The BLS April 2026 CPI release (expected May 13–14, 2026) will show headline CPI year-over-year at or above 3.5%, driven by Hormuz-disruption gasoline price transmission into the consumer basket.

• cpr governance gap exploitation

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  • pred-2026-05-02-339 Iran will not conduct a significant escalation of Hormuz commercial shipping disruption — defined as three or more vessel seizures in a 30-day window, a formally declared exclusion zone, or a mine-laying operation targeting commercial traffic — between May 2 and June 15, 2026.

• credence path dependence

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  • pred-2026-04-07-165 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 5, 2026 (released April 10, 2026) will come in BELOW 230,000, remaining consistent with pre-tariff baseline and within the structural lag window before tariff-shock displacement becomes visible in formal claims data.

• credibility as class-faction instrument

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  • pred-2026-03-26-109 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include a publicly stated blanket tariff rate of 10% or higher on EU goods in non-automotive, non-steel sectors, confirmed in official White House or Federal Register communication on or before April 4, 2026.

• credibility as common-pool resource

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  • pred-2026-03-18-025 The March 2026 FOMC Summary of Economic Projections will show the median 2026 rate-cut projection at 2 or fewer cuts (a downward revision from December's 3-cut median); Powell will use energy-supply-uncertainty language that gestures at Hormuz without explicit naming. The OR compound resolves TRUE primarily through the dot-plot pathway, with explicit Hormuz citation being the uncertain secondary condition.
  • pred-2026-03-27-129 The BEA's February 2026 PCE release (~2026-03-28) will show core PCE year-over-year at or above 2.5%, AND at least one Federal Reserve official will issue a public statement within 48 hours of the release maintaining a data-dependent pause on rate cuts.

• credibility capital asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-04-19-251 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing a statement that acknowledges elevated tariff-driven inflation while citing heightened uncertainty as grounds for inaction.

• credibility commons

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  • pred-2026-03-27-127 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast to below 1.5% in the Spring Statement (due 2026-03-31), down from approximately 2.0% in the Autumn Statement 2025, citing Hormuz-driven energy costs and trade uncertainty.
  • pred-2026-04-28-332 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds target rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, with no dissents favoring a rate cut.
  • pred-2026-05-01-335 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing forward guidance consistent with continued data-dependency and no imminent directional move.

• credibility commons tipping point

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  • pred-2026-04-22-281 At least one of WFP, OCHA, or the IPC Famine Review Committee will formally declare IPC Phase 5 (famine) conditions in at least one zone of Gaza by June 17, 2026.

• credibility constraint

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  • pred-2026-03-21-063 The February 2026 US core PCE price index will print at or above 2.5% year-over-year when released on or around March 28, 2026, sustaining the Fed's pause posture and contradicting near-term market rate-cut pricing.

• credibility ratchet

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  • pred-2026-04-10-197 The European Commission will NOT formally adopt a comprehensive retaliatory tariff or countermeasure package targeting US goods that clearly goes beyond existing WTO-route safeguard measures by May 31, 2026; instead, the Commission will adopt a phased framework authorization, safeguard extension, or Anti-Coercion Instrument activation notice that preserves escalation optionality without crossing the 'comprehensive, beyond WTO-route' threshold specified.

• credibility trap

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  • pred-2026-03-28-133 The US Liberation Day tariff package announced April 2, 2026 will NOT be implemented cleanly on schedule — by April 11, 2026, announced bilateral exemptions, product exclusions, implementation delays, or country-specific carve-outs will collectively affect more than 20% of the originally targeted import value.
  • pred-2026-03-28-141 No publicly announced meeting, de-escalation framework, or formal diplomatic signal between the US and Iran will emerge from Pakistan's mediation by April 11, 2026; back-channel activity will continue but remain below the public announcement threshold.
  • pred-2026-05-12-398 The UK government will NOT announce a formal emergency fiscal consolidation measure (unscheduled spending review, emergency budget statement, or explicit new multi-billion-pound spending cut commitment) by May 26, 2026; the government will instead deploy Chancellor statements reaffirming existing fiscal rules, coordinated Treasury-OBR messaging, and verbal commitments without concrete new cuts.

• credibility-as-common-pool-resource

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  • pred-2026-03-17-019 The Bank of England MPC will hold the Bank Rate at 4.5% at its March 19-20 meeting, with a vote split of at least 7-2 (hold-cut), meaning 2 or more members dissent in favor of a 25bp cut.
  • pred-2026-05-04-346 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, maintaining the current target range without adjustment of any magnitude.

• credibility-as-institutional-capital

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  • pred-2026-05-06-360 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at the June 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no rate reduction, despite ongoing tariff-driven and Hormuz-linked inflationary pressure and emerging signs of demand weakness.

• credibility-institution trap

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  • pred-2026-05-04-349 The US Navy will successfully coordinate the transit of at least 3 additional commercially-operated vessels through the Strait of Hormuz under naval escort between 2026-05-04 and 2026-05-14, building on the reported 2-vessel precedent and Trump's public commitment to 'guide' stranded ships.

• credibility-signal substitution

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  • pred-2026-05-12-398 The UK government will NOT announce a formal emergency fiscal consolidation measure (unscheduled spending review, emergency budget statement, or explicit new multi-billion-pound spending cut commitment) by May 26, 2026; the government will instead deploy Chancellor statements reaffirming existing fiscal rules, coordinated Treasury-OBR messaging, and verbal commitments without concrete new cuts.

• credible commitment failure

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  • pred-2026-03-29-155 No publicly announced interim agreement, confidence-building measure, or joint statement will emerge from the Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic track by April 30, 2026. Back-channel activity will continue, but the threshold of public announcement will not be crossed.

• credible commitment threshold

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  • pred-2026-03-23-085 The April 2, 2026 'Liberation Day' reciprocal tariff announcement will include a universal baseline tariff of 10% or higher applied to all US imports regardless of country of origin.

• credible commitment trap

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  • pred-2026-04-08-179 By June 1, 2026, the US-Iran diplomatic process will remain in purely renewable mode: no formal framework agreement, no sanctions relief roadmap, and no enrichment suspension protocol with binding verification architecture will have been produced. The process will generate at least two additional ceasefire extensions and at least one 'framework for talks' or 'principles' communiqué, each of which will itself be a renewable rather than stock instrument.

• credible threat of enhanced cooperation

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  • pred-2026-03-22-077 By May 15, 2026, the EU will formally approve a Ukraine financial support package of €35bn or more — either through Hungarian consent obtained via bilateral side-payment (cohesion fund releases or rule-of-law concessions) or through a mechanism that structurally reduces Hungary's formal veto surface (ERA instrument backed by frozen Russian asset revenues, enhanced cooperation, or G7 extraordinary-revenue vehicle).

• credit expansion legacy

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  • pred-2026-03-23-079 The Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE price index at or above 2.8% year-over-year when data releases on or around March 28, 2026.

• crisis fatigue

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  • pred-2026-05-11-391 Brent crude oil spot price will NOT breach $95 per barrel on any trading day close between May 12 and May 18, 2026, despite the confirmed Strait of Hormuz cargo ship attack at Day 71+ of escalation — a spike of $4–8 intraday is plausible but sustained closes above $95 are not.

• crisis-as-opportunity laundering

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  • pred-2026-05-12-398 The UK government will NOT announce a formal emergency fiscal consolidation measure (unscheduled spending review, emergency budget statement, or explicit new multi-billion-pound spending cut commitment) by May 26, 2026; the government will instead deploy Chancellor statements reaffirming existing fiscal rules, coordinated Treasury-OBR messaging, and verbal commitments without concrete new cuts.

• crisis-narrative

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  • The Sacrifice-Flip: Spin, Sit-In, and the Dual Register of Cost-Bearing

• crossbencher arithmetic

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  • pred-2026-05-12-397 The Australian Labor government's negative gearing and capital gains tax reform measures as announced in Budget 2026 will survive 14 days of parliamentary scrutiny through May 26, 2026, without the government publicly offering major concessions — defined as explicit scope reduction, new grandfathering provisions not present in the original budget announcement, or phase-in timeline extension — to crossbenchers or the opposition in response to parliamentary pressure.

• custom

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  • The Emergence Paradox: How the Myth of Spontaneous Order Prevents Spontaneous Order

• data-dependent communication grammar

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  • pred-2026-05-05-355 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, AND the post-meeting statement and Powell press conference will not signal that a rate cut is imminent (i.e., will not pre-commit to or strongly imply a June 2026 cut, defined as no shift to >70% market-implied probability of June cut immediately post-conference).

• data-dependent pause

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  • pred-2026-03-27-129 The BEA's February 2026 PCE release (~2026-03-28) will show core PCE year-over-year at or above 2.5%, AND at least one Federal Reserve official will issue a public statement within 48 hours of the release maintaining a data-dependent pause on rate cuts.

• day-after coalition fracture

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  • pred-2026-05-07-369 By June 18, 2026, Israel will formally announce and initiate a large-scale ground military operation explicitly described by the Israeli military as decisive or final-phase, targeting remaining Hamas governance structures in Rafah or northern Gaza, operationally distinct from current targeted raids.

• de facto emergency posture

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  • pred-2026-04-25-318 The Malian transitional government will NOT formally declare a national state of emergency AND will NOT publicly request emergency military reinforcement from any external partner (Russia/Africa Corps successor, neighboring state, or the African Union) within 60 days of the late-April 2026 coordinated attacks.

• de jure / de facto rule gap

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  • pred-2026-04-20-263 Iraq's ruling Shia bloc will fail to achieve both formal nomination AND parliamentary confirmation of a new prime minister by June 1, 2026, with the process remaining unresolved or stalled at the confirmation stage.

• de-dollarization

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  • pred-2026-04-13-233 By June 7, 2026, at least one major Gulf sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA, or Kuwait KIA) will publicly announce a reduction in USD-denominated asset holdings or a new allocation to non-USD reserve assets.

• deaccumulator dynamics

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  • pred-2026-04-08-179 By June 1, 2026, the US-Iran diplomatic process will remain in purely renewable mode: no formal framework agreement, no sanctions relief roadmap, and no enrichment suspension protocol with binding verification architecture will have been produced. The process will generate at least two additional ceasefire extensions and at least one 'framework for talks' or 'principles' communiqué, each of which will itself be a renewable rather than stock instrument.

• deal-seigniorage

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  • pred-2026-05-11-390 No direct US-Iran naval exchange, vessel seizure by either party, or US military strike on Iranian assets will occur within the 6-week window ending 2026-06-22; the sub-threshold harassment equilibrium holds below the direct-exchange threshold.

• declaratory vs. operational frameworks

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  • pred-2026-04-24-311 No Russian warships will be permanently stationed at, and no Russian troops will be based at, Indian military facilities under the April 2026 Russia-India pact by June 19, 2026; the pact will remain a declaratory framework without operational basing. Transient port calls or joint exercises, if they occur, do not constitute falsification.

• declaratory-enforcement dissociation

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  • pred-2026-04-09-191 By June 4, 2026, at least 3 US states (most likely from NY, CA, MA, IL, CO, or WA) will publicly announce or formally launch corporate securities enforcement actions or new regulatory frameworks explicitly framed in official communications — press releases, legislative testimony, or formal AG statements — as filling the enforcement vacuum created by the SEC chair's withdrawal from corporate policing.

• decline

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  • pred-2026-03-11-001 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its March 18-19, 2026 meeting, maintaining the current target range.
  • pred-2026-03-13-001 Initial jobless claims for the week ending March 15, 2026 (reported Thursday March 20, 2026) will remain below 235,000.

• decomposition circuit

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  • pred-2026-04-12-227 By June 7, 2026, at least one major GCC sovereign wealth fund (ADIA, PIF, QIA, or KIA) will publicly announce a formal reallocation strategy reducing US-denominated asset exposure by 10%+ or establishing a new European/Swiss-domiciled investment vehicle, explicitly citing Iran-war geopolitical risk or Hormuz corridor uncertainty as justification.

• defection incentive peak

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  • pred-2026-03-18-035 OPEC+ will convene an unscheduled emergency ministerial meeting OR issue a formal communiqué announcing a production policy adjustment (increase, cut, or readiness pledge) in direct response to the Gulf energy disruption by April 30, 2026.

• defense-industrial-lock-in

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  • pred-2026-05-09-379 Credible reports of resumed large-scale offensive operations by Russia or Ukraine will emerge before May 15, 2026, causing the ceasefire to collapse within or immediately following its stated 72-hour window.

• deindustrialization geography

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  • pred-2026-05-07-364 Labour will lose net control of at least 3 councils and at least 150 council seats in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, confirming a major Reform/Green pincer surge.

• demand absorption

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  • pred-2026-05-13-400 The UK King's Speech, if delivered by 2026-05-27, will include at least one piece of primary legislation explicitly targeting NHS waiting-list reduction or housing supply as a named headline domestic bill — not merely a white paper, green paper, or regulatory commitment.

• demand compression

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  • pred-2026-05-07-368 The US April 2026 CPI report (released approximately May 13-14) will show year-over-year headline inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating meaningful tariff-driven pass-through to consumer goods prices.

• demand deficiency made politically legible via service degradation

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  • pred-2026-05-05-352 Labour will lose net control of 4 or more councils in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, AND Keir Starmer's government will issue a public reset or course-correction statement (press conference, policy announcement, or explicit reframing of government direction) within 72 hours of results being declared, by approximately May 11, 2026.

• demand destruction lag

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  • pred-2026-03-16-007 Brent crude oil will close above $95/barrel on at least 7 of the 10 trading days spanning March 17–28, 2026, given ongoing US-Israeli strikes on Iran and continued selective Hormuz passage
  • pred-2026-03-24-095 TTF natural gas front-month spot price will close above €75/MWh on at least 6 of the 15 trading sessions from March 25 to April 14, 2026, reflecting sustained price elevation from the combined QatarEnergy LNG force majeure and Hormuz disruption shock.
  • pred-2026-04-08-183 US March 2026 headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released approximately April 10, 2026.

• demand destruction non-linearity

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  • pred-2026-03-21-059 TTF natural gas spot prices will average above €55/MWh across the April 1–28, 2026 window, driven by Qatar LNG facility strike and sustained Gulf conflict disruption to spot cargo flows into Europe.

• demand destruction threshold

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  • pred-2026-03-18-035 OPEC+ will convene an unscheduled emergency ministerial meeting OR issue a formal communiqué announcing a production policy adjustment (increase, cut, or readiness pledge) in direct response to the Gulf energy disruption by April 30, 2026.

• demand destruction timing asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-04-09-187 March 2026 US CPI (all items, year-over-year) prints at or above 3.0% when released approximately April 10–11, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-06-362 The BLS April 2026 CPI release (expected May 13–14, 2026) will show headline CPI year-over-year at or above 3.5%, driven by Hormuz-disruption gasoline price transmission into the consumer basket.

• demand multiplier

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  • pred-2026-05-11-389 The UK King's Speech (delivered within 14 days of 2026-05-11) will include at least one of: (a) a housing supply or planning reform bill, (b) an AI or digital regulation framework bill, or (c) explicit defense spending legislation — confirming that Starmer's 'bolder action' rhetoric converts into a primary legislative program signal rather than remaining soft-instrument rhetoric

• demand-deficiency-to-external-assertion

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  • pred-2026-03-18-031 Iran or an Iran-directed proxy will execute a publicly confirmed kinetic attack on Gulf Arab energy infrastructure (oil/gas facilities, pipelines, export terminals, or refinery complexes) by April 1, 2026.

• demand-destruction countervailing force

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  • pred-2026-05-11-391 Brent crude oil spot price will NOT breach $95 per barrel on any trading day close between May 12 and May 18, 2026, despite the confirmed Strait of Hormuz cargo ship attack at Day 71+ of escalation — a spike of $4–8 intraday is plausible but sustained closes above $95 are not.

• demand-pull vs cost-push

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  • pred-2026-03-22-067 The BEA's February 2026 core PCE price index release (~March 28, 2026) will show core PCE inflation at or above 2.8% year-over-year.

• deniability architecture

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  • pred-2026-05-10-386 A subsequent round of US-Iran indirect nuclear or Hormuz-related talks will be publicly confirmed or announced before 2026-05-24, following Iran's published response to the latest US framework proposal.

• deniability norm

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  • pred-2026-03-18-031 Iran or an Iran-directed proxy will execute a publicly confirmed kinetic attack on Gulf Arab energy infrastructure (oil/gas facilities, pipelines, export terminals, or refinery complexes) by April 1, 2026.

• deniable channel form

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  • pred-2026-04-21-267 By May 5, 2026, neither the US nor Iran will publicly acknowledge the reported Islamabad back-channel talks through any jointly recognized framework, agreed formal agenda, or confirmed next-round meeting date; the public-denial/back-channel split will persist without official acknowledgment from either Tehran or Washington.

• deniable restriction

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  • pred-2026-05-02-338 The UK government will NOT table formal legislation, issue statutory guidance under existing public order powers, or announce an executive restriction specifically targeting categories of pro-Palestine protests by 2026-05-16. Starmer's government will sustain a rhetorical threat posture while confining actual operational restriction to case-by-case police conditions under existing Public Order Act authority, preserving categorical deniability.

• denomination

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  • pred-2026-03-22-071 The European Union will formally announce a retaliatory tariff package against US goods — with specific named product lists and stated rates — on or before 2026-05-03, though implementation will likely be suspended or staged pending negotiations.

• denomination as bargaining capital

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  • pred-2026-03-22-069 Iran will NOT formally suspend IAEA inspector access nor announce NPT withdrawal within 14 days of the Natanz strike — i.e., no formal suspension order or NPT withdrawal notice will be issued by 2026-04-05. Iran will instead escalate within the framework: accelerated enrichment, reduced inspector access, expulsion of specific personnel, and declaratory threats, while preserving formal treaty membership.

• denomination event

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  • pred-2026-03-23-085 The April 2, 2026 'Liberation Day' reciprocal tariff announcement will include a universal baseline tariff of 10% or higher applied to all US imports regardless of country of origin.

• denomination stack

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  • pred-2026-03-24-091 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast downward by at least 0.5 percentage points from its Autumn 2025 Statement projection in the Spring Statement 2026 fiscal event on March 26, 2026.

• denomination without convertibility

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  • pred-2026-03-20-051 The UK Spring Statement on 26 March 2026 will announce a real-terms freeze or below-CPI uprating of Universal Credit and/or Housing Benefit, with savings explicitly or transparently linked (in the same fiscal event) to increased defence and/or infrastructure expenditure.

• denomination-without-convertibility

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  • pred-2026-03-20-053 The European Commission will NOT formally invoke the Gas Security of Supply Regulation (2017/1938 or successor) or authorize coordinated strategic reserve drawdowns in response to Qatar LNG supply disruption by May 15, 2026. Instead, the Commission will activate softer coordination instruments: EU Energy Platform convening, emergency supply monitoring, joint procurement facilitation, and Commission communications — without crossing the formal solidarity-trigger or drawdown-authorization threshold.

• dependency encounter

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  • pred-2026-05-05-353 The Lula-Trump Washington meeting (week of May 5, 2026) will produce no formal bilateral trade instrument, explicit tariff-exemption commitment, or jointly signed framework document with operative trade language. The sole substantive output will be a ceremonial joint statement with non-binding aspirational language (e.g., 'exploring enhanced cooperation,' sector-level working groups) and no enforceable tariff provisions.

• deregulatory amnesia

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  • pred-2026-04-21-271 US-Iran nuclear negotiations will not produce a formal framework agreement or substantive joint statement with specific parameters before April 30, 2026; the most likely outcome is either a minimal procedural signal (announced next-round schedule or anodyne communiqué) or quiet continuation without formal public output — not a genuine breakthrough and not outright collapse.

• derivatives

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  • pred-2026-04-11-001 US initial weekly jobless claims for the week ending April 12, 2026 (reported Thursday April 17, 2026) will remain below 250,000 seasonally adjusted.

• derivatization of uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-03-18-025 The March 2026 FOMC Summary of Economic Projections will show the median 2026 rate-cut projection at 2 or fewer cuts (a downward revision from December's 3-cut median); Powell will use energy-supply-uncertainty language that gestures at Hormuz without explicit naming. The OR compound resolves TRUE primarily through the dot-plot pathway, with explicit Hormuz citation being the uncertain secondary condition.

• designed order vs. spontaneous order

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  • pred-2026-04-08-175 The first round of US-Iran talks in Islamabad (approximately April 11–15, 2026) will NOT produce a publicly announced joint communiqué, agreed negotiating framework, or explicit agenda document for nuclear/sanctions discussions by April 15, 2026. The publicly observable outcome will be, at most, a vague procedural statement ('constructive atmosphere; parties agreed to continue') that avoids committing either side to a specific agenda, timeline, or negotiating framework.

• deterrence credibility

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  • pred-2026-03-29-147 The US Department of Defense (via CENTCOM) will publicly confirm at least one new offensive airstrike against Houthi military infrastructure in Yemen between 2026-03-29 and 2026-04-05, citing the Houthi opening of a new operational front.
  • pred-2026-04-10-193 By April 20, 2026, Iranian authorities (IRGC, Foreign Ministry, or Supreme Leader's office) will issue at least one of the following in direct response to Trump's Hormuz passage warning: a formal counter-statement or diplomatic note, a naval repositioning or exercise announcement, or a NOTAM issuance — with the Foreign Ministry verbal counter-statement being near-certain and an IRGC operational signal being likely.

• deterrence-credibility depreciation

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  • pred-2026-05-07-365 By May 21, 2026, Hezbollah will neither formally declare the 2024 Lebanon ceasefire void nor launch a single retaliatory barrage exceeding 50 projectiles toward northern Israel in response to the reported Beirut strike. Sub-threshold response (drone incursions, cross-border fire under 50 projectiles, diplomatic escalation through Iranian channels) is the expected equilibrium.

• deterrence-inversion

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  • pred-2026-05-11-390 No direct US-Iran naval exchange, vessel seizure by either party, or US military strike on Iranian assets will occur within the 6-week window ending 2026-06-22; the sub-threshold harassment equilibrium holds below the direct-exchange threshold.

• diagnostic-inversion

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  • pred-2026-03-28-135 The OBR will revise its UK 2026 GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (March 30-31, 2026), specifically to a figure in the 0.7-0.99% range, signaling structural rather than cyclical deterioration.

• dialogue

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  • The Split Address: Coupling, Nihilism, and the Diaspora's Dialogue Problem

• diaspora

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  • The Split Address: Coupling, Nihilism, and the Diaspora's Dialogue Problem
  • The Mobility Paradox: How Diaspora Nostalgia and Host-Society Aristocracy Ratchet Segregation Through the Figure of the Immigrant

• differential navigational cost

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  • pred-2026-04-23-293 By August 31, 2026, the Israeli government or IDF will formally designate and announce a named military operation or permanent administrative security zone in the northern West Bank (Jenin/Tulkarem corridor or broader), distinct from ad-hoc settler-violence responses — with Operation Iron Wall (January 2025) as the established baseline, meaning any successor named operation, formal escalation of Iron Wall into a permanent administrative zone, or new cabinet/IDF designation of a 'special security zone' with published geographic scope counts as resolution.

• diffusion index

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  • pred-2026-03-29-145 The US ISM Manufacturing PMI for March 2026 will print below 48.0 upon release circa April 1, 2026, confirming manufacturing contraction consistent with compound tariff escalation and Hormuz-driven energy cost pass-through into manufacturing inputs.

• diminishing marginal price response

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  • pred-2026-05-11-391 Brent crude oil spot price will NOT breach $95 per barrel on any trading day close between May 12 and May 18, 2026, despite the confirmed Strait of Hormuz cargo ship attack at Day 71+ of escalation — a spike of $4–8 intraday is plausible but sustained closes above $95 are not.

• diplomacy

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  • Policy Brief: The Etymology Trap in Institutional Reform

• diplomatic capital accumulation and deployment timing

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  • pred-2026-05-07-366 By June 30, 2026, China will NOT formally announce a bilateral or multilateral diplomatic initiative — hosted talks, ceasefire proposal, or maritime security framework — for the Hormuz standoff; Beijing will conduct back-channel mediation and issue rhetorical calls for dialogue through SCO/BRI venues but will not make a public, attributable formal commitment to a resolution process.

• diplomatic liquidity preference

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  • pred-2026-03-17-021 No publicly announced operative agreement (ceasefire extension, hostage deal, or binding framework document with operational parameters) will emerge from the Cairo talks by March 28, 2026. Any public statement issued will be a procedural communiqué or vague progress declaration without binding commitments on ceasefire duration, hostage releases, or withdrawal timelines.
  • pred-2026-03-26-113 The United States and Iran will NOT publicly announce the opening of formal direct bilateral nuclear negotiations on or before May 15, 2026; back-channel or third-party mediation activity may intensify but will not produce a jointly acknowledged formal bilateral announcement within this window.
  • pred-2026-03-29-155 No publicly announced interim agreement, confidence-building measure, or joint statement will emerge from the Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic track by April 30, 2026. Back-channel activity will continue, but the threshold of public announcement will not be crossed.
  • pred-2026-04-21-271 US-Iran nuclear negotiations will not produce a formal framework agreement or substantive joint statement with specific parameters before April 30, 2026; the most likely outcome is either a minimal procedural signal (announced next-round schedule or anodyne communiqué) or quiet continuation without formal public output — not a genuine breakthrough and not outright collapse.
  • pred-2026-04-24-305 US-Iran nuclear and sanctions negotiations will NOT produce a publicly acknowledged written framework or agreement-in-principle document by May 31, 2026. Talks will continue in back-channel form; any visible output will be verbal acknowledgments of 'progress' rather than a signed or jointly circulated text.

• diplomatic liquidity preference / ambiguity preservation

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  • pred-2026-05-11-392 The United States and China will not publicly issue a joint statement, framework, or communiqué specifically addressing the Iran-Hormuz crisis before May 25, 2026; any diplomatic output from Trump-Xi Iran talks will take the form of separate unilateral readouts with convergent but not jointly authored language.

• diplomatic liquidity trap

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  • pred-2026-03-17-017 No publicly announced US-China presidential summit or scheduled Xi-Trump direct bilateral communication will be made by May 1, 2026. The relationship will remain in managed-tension equilibrium with back-channel activity but no formal announcement.
  • pred-2026-04-22-277 No written framework agreement or formal joint communiqué committing both parties to continued structured negotiations will emerge from the current US-Iran talks before April 30, 2026; any public statement will be a unilateral declaration, verbal understanding, or silence — not a jointly-attributed written instrument with process commitments.

• diplomatic malinvestment

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  • pred-2026-04-22-277 No written framework agreement or formal joint communiqué committing both parties to continued structured negotiations will emerge from the current US-Iran talks before April 30, 2026; any public statement will be a unilateral declaration, verbal understanding, or silence — not a jointly-attributed written instrument with process commitments.
  • pred-2026-04-25-313 US and Iranian envoys will NOT jointly release a written framework document — communiqué, statement of principles, or agreed enrichment parameters — by 2026-05-09, the 14-day window following expected talk commencement around 2026-05-02. Talks will produce at most a procedural signal (agreement to continue, 'constructive atmosphere' language) without a jointly signed or jointly attributed text encoding substantive commitments.

• diplomatic seigniorage

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  • pred-2026-04-19-253 The US-Pakistan-Iran diplomatic track will NOT produce a publicly announced tangible output — no joint communiqué, agreed framework, or confirmed next round of direct/indirect talks — by May 3, 2026; the ceiling outcome is an informal 'constructive discussions' readout below the threshold of tangible diplomatic product.

• diplomatic-liquidity-preference

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  • pred-2026-03-19-047 At least 2 GCC member states beyond Qatar (most likely Saudi Arabia + Bahrain or UAE) will formally downgrade, suspend, or sever diplomatic relations with Iran by May 14, 2026, following Iran's strikes on Qatari LNG infrastructure.
  • pred-2026-04-11-213 By April 25, 2026, Iran will NOT satisfy both conditions simultaneously: (1) formal Iranian delegation participation in the Islamabad round AND (2) a substantive joint framework or communiqué explicitly addressing Hormuz access conditions with verifiable parameters. The joint probability of both conditions being met is approximately 8%.

• diplomatic-liquidity-trap

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  • pred-2026-05-03-343 A fourth formal round of Iran-US nuclear negotiations will NOT be publicly announced or formally scheduled by 2026-05-17, despite the US having formally responded to Iran's latest peace proposal.

• diplomatic-paradox-of-thrift

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  • pred-2026-03-25-105 By April 8, 2026, the US and Iran will NOT publicly confirm a scheduled direct or Oman-mediated bilateral meeting at deputy-foreign-minister level or above to discuss nuclear or military de-escalation terms.

• disbursement architecture

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  • pred-2026-04-17-237 Hungary's post-Orbán government will NOT produce a formal public commitment to EU rule-of-law reforms sufficient for the European Commission to announce a disbursement schedule for the frozen €35bn within 14 days of 2026-04-17 (by 2026-05-01). The Hungarian government will likely signal commitment within this window; the Commission disbursement schedule announcement will not follow within it.

• disinformation

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  • The Piece-Form: Epistemic Hedging, Intuition Suppression, and the Anachronism of Fragment-Based Knowledge

• disjunctive prediction structure

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  • pred-2026-03-27-001 By April 7, 2026, at least one of the following will occur: (a) a formal GCC joint communiqué condemning or demanding reversal of Iran's Hormuz transit fees, (b) a CENTCOM freedom-of-navigation counter-announcement or declaration regarding the transit fee, or (c) Brent crude closing above $108/barrel on at least one trading day — with Brent crossing $108 as the primary resolution pathway (est. 70% standalone probability) and a CENTCOM declaration as the secondary (est. 55% standalone), and GCC communiqué as the least likely of the three (est. 28% standalone).

• dispersed-knowledge barrier

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  • pred-2026-05-20-403 The UK House of Commons passes the Loyal Address following the King's Speech without a successful no-confidence amendment, on or before 2026-06-03.

• disruption-as-leverage vs. closure-as-destruction incentive distinction

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  • pred-2026-05-04-349 The US Navy will successfully coordinate the transit of at least 3 additional commercially-operated vessels through the Strait of Hormuz under naval escort between 2026-05-04 and 2026-05-14, building on the reported 2-vessel precedent and Trump's public commitment to 'guide' stranded ships.

• distressed-seller dynamics

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  • pred-2026-03-29-149 HM Government will formally announce at least two material privatization initiatives — including NHS trust transfers, public utility stake disposals, public land sales, infrastructure fund transfers, or functionally equivalent arm's-length asset transfers denominated as fiscal consolidation measures — by 2026-12-31, even if not labeled 'privatization' in ministerial statements.

• distributional incidence and mpc amplification

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  • pred-2026-03-19-045 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth projection below 1.5% in its Spring 2026 forecast published alongside the Spring Statement on or around March 26, 2026

• dollar hegemony

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  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper

• dollar weaponization

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  • pred-2026-04-18-245 By May 31, 2026, no major GCC sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA/Mubadala/ADQ, Kuwait Investment Authority, or Qatar Investment Authority) will formally announce a strategic reduction in US dollar-denominated holdings or a new non-dollar allocation explicitly framed as a geopolitically-motivated portfolio rebalancing.

• domestic audience costs

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  • pred-2026-04-25-313 US and Iranian envoys will NOT jointly release a written framework document — communiqué, statement of principles, or agreed enrichment parameters — by 2026-05-09, the 14-day window following expected talk commencement around 2026-05-02. Talks will produce at most a procedural signal (agreement to continue, 'constructive atmosphere' language) without a jointly signed or jointly attributed text encoding substantive commitments.

• domestic legitimacy market

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  • pred-2026-03-26-117 By 2026-04-09, Iran will formally announce at least one of: (a) Strait of Hormuz passage restrictions or mandatory transit fees, or (b) publicly acknowledged retaliatory strikes against Israeli or US military assets, explicitly linked to the killing of Iran's naval chief.

• domestic veto player dynamics

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  • pred-2026-04-24-305 US-Iran nuclear and sanctions negotiations will NOT produce a publicly acknowledged written framework or agreement-in-principle document by May 31, 2026. Talks will continue in back-channel form; any visible output will be verbal acknowledgments of 'progress' rather than a signed or jointly circulated text.

• donor-fatigue effective demand signaling

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  • pred-2026-05-09-377 At least one qualifying event will occur between 2026-05-09 and 2026-05-16: Russia formally announcing a new operational phase or mandatory mobilization expansion, OR Ukraine conducting a publicized cross-border strategic strike on Russian territory.

• donor-legibility filter

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  • pred-2026-04-21-275 By June 16, 2026, international Gaza reconstruction pledges announced at any formal conference or donor coordination mechanism will nominally total at least $5B USD, but no operational disbursement mechanism will exist that has transferred capital to Gaza-based entities — leaving commitments as unfunded declarations without a functioning payment architecture.

• double aging (institution and calibration instrument)

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  • pred-2026-04-12-223 The Hungarian opposition coalition led by TISZA will fail to deny Fidesz its parliamentary supermajority (≥133 seats) in the April 2026 elections — Fidesz will retain constitutional amendment capacity.

• dual mandate conflict

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  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.

• dual-front insurgency

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  • pred-2026-05-07-364 Labour will lose net control of at least 3 councils and at least 150 council seats in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, confirming a major Reform/Green pincer surge.

• dual-legitimacy of time-limited non-structural transfers

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  • pred-2026-05-12-394 Treasurer Chalmers' 2026 Federal Budget will declare a nominal fiscal surplus AND include direct household cost-of-living transfers (energy rebates, rent assistance top-ups, targeted payment extensions) exceeding AUD 3 billion in aggregate across all line items.

• dual-mandate paralysis

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  • pred-2026-04-19-251 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing a statement that acknowledges elevated tariff-driven inflation while citing heightened uncertainty as grounds for inaction.

• dual-shock simultaneous disruption

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  • pred-2026-03-24-095 TTF natural gas front-month spot price will close above €75/MWh on at least 6 of the 15 trading sessions from March 25 to April 14, 2026, reflecting sustained price elevation from the combined QatarEnergy LNG force majeure and Hormuz disruption shock.

• dual-state contradiction (hezbollah military vs. social functions)

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  • pred-2026-04-08-185 Lebanon will experience at least one of: (a) formal government collapse with failure to form a replacement within 30 days, (b) resumption of large-scale armed conflict involving at least one non-state actor and Lebanese state forces with >50 combat deaths in a single week, or (c) internationally recognized de facto territorial partition acknowledged by 3+ UN Security Council members — by October 8, 2026.

• dual-use governance

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  • pred-2026-04-07-167 No formal US government instrument — whether executive order, DoD directive, or binding interagency framework — explicitly delineating permitted versus prohibited uses of commercial AI systems in military and civilian government contexts will be issued by May 31, 2026; the Pentagon-Anthropic dispute will instead resolve through bilateral contract modification, informal DoD guidance, or non-binding working-group output that preserves administrative optionality.

• duration

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  • pred-2026-04-28-001 Any US-Iran bilateral arrangement finalized before December 31, 2026 will be structured as a short-duration executive framework — interim understanding, temporary sanctions relief, or informal compliance arrangement — with a formal compliance or verification horizon of 4 years or fewer, failing to extend enforcement commitments beyond the current US presidential term (ending January 2029). If no arrangement is reached by December 31, 2026, the prediction is confirmed by default: the bilateral duration trap will have prevented agreement entirely.

• duration arbitrage

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  • pred-2026-04-12-227 By June 7, 2026, at least one major GCC sovereign wealth fund (ADIA, PIF, QIA, or KIA) will publicly announce a formal reallocation strategy reducing US-denominated asset exposure by 10%+ or establishing a new European/Swiss-domiciled investment vehicle, explicitly citing Iran-war geopolitical risk or Hormuz corridor uncertainty as justification.
  • pred-2026-04-19-251 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing a statement that acknowledges elevated tariff-driven inflation while citing heightened uncertainty as grounds for inaction.

• duration arbitrage between patron-differentiated factions

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  • pred-2026-04-21-269 Iraq's Council of Representatives will NOT formally confirm a new Prime Minister by June 7, 2026; the political vacancy will extend past that date, with at most a caretaker or placeholder nomination occurring within the 7-week window.

• dwp infrastructure lock-in

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  • pred-2026-05-12-396 The UK government will not table a revised welfare reform bill containing substantive conditionality or activity requirements before July 7, 2026.

• early-mover penalty

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  • pred-2026-04-22-285 No UK cabinet minister will resign from government directly citing the Doyle job controversy, and no formal Labour Party no-confidence mechanism against Starmer will be triggered, before May 6, 2026.

• edlp norm collapse

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  • pred-2026-04-08-183 US March 2026 headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released approximately April 10, 2026.

• effective demand failure

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  • pred-2026-03-27-131 At least one of BYD, NIO, Li Auto, or XPENG will publicly announce production cuts, factory suspensions, or workforce reductions by 2026-05-08 (6 weeks from 2026-03-27), as domestic margin compression from the ongoing price war renders expansion uneconomical.
  • pred-2026-04-21-265 Reform UK will finish in second place ahead of the Conservative Party in the Birmingham by-election, while Labour retains the seat with a majority below 5,000 votes
  • pred-2026-04-22-287 No written framework, parameters document, or joint statement of principles on US-Iran nuclear de-escalation will be jointly announced by June 15, 2026; talks will remain in procedural or exploratory contact phase at best
  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.
  • pred-2026-04-25-316 The BEA advance estimate released April 30, 2026 will show Q1 2026 real GDP growth as negative (below 0.0% annualized), with a point estimate in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading surge mechanically compressing the net-exports component and secondarily by consumer spending deceleration.
  • pred-2026-05-09-378 The United States will not issue formal sanctions, invoke Article 4 NATO consultation, or publicly demand arms control compliance from Turkey regarding its announced ICBM program by 2026-06-20. Washington will respond at most via private diplomatic channels, rhetorical 'serious concern' statements, and possibly bilateral dialogue framing — all falling short of institutionally formalized action.

• effective demand failure through broken institutional transmission

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  • pred-2026-05-10-384 No direct Putin-Zelensky bilateral meeting will take place, nor will confirmed dates for such a meeting be publicly announced by both parties, by 2026-06-21

• effective demand substitution under diplomatic isolation

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  • pred-2026-05-02-339 Iran will not conduct a significant escalation of Hormuz commercial shipping disruption — defined as three or more vessel seizures in a 30-day window, a formally declared exclusion zone, or a mine-laying operation targeting commercial traffic — between May 2 and June 15, 2026.

• effective-demand

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  • pred-2026-03-28-139 The US March 2026 non-farm payrolls report (released April 3, 2026) will show job gains BELOW 150,000, while the unemployment rate holds at or below 4.2% — producing a split resolution where employment growth disappoints but the headline unemployment rate appears stable due to labor-supply contraction rather than demand recovery.

• effective-demand-failure

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  • pred-2026-05-03-340 In the UK local elections on 7 May 2026, Labour will suffer a net loss of more than 150 council seats, and the visible internal party response will be framed as a communications or messaging failure rather than a structural reckoning with the government's economic direction.

• electoral architecture as political price control suppressing preference aggregation

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  • pred-2026-04-12-217 The Tisza/Magyar Péter coalition will win a sufficient number of parliamentary seats in the April 12, 2026 Hungarian elections to form a majority government without Fidesz — operationalized as securing at least 100 seats in the 199-seat National Assembly and proceeding to coalition government formation without Orbán as Prime Minister.

• electoral geometry manipulation

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  • pred-2026-04-12-223 The Hungarian opposition coalition led by TISZA will fail to deny Fidesz its parliamentary supermajority (≥133 seats) in the April 2026 elections — Fidesz will retain constitutional amendment capacity.

• electoral law redesign

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  • pred-2026-03-26-119 Fidesz wins at least 133 of 199 parliamentary seats in the April 2026 Hungarian election, retaining its two-thirds constitutional supermajority.

• electoral system reform

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  • pred-2026-05-08-370 Labour will fail to retain the largest-party position in the Welsh Senedd following the May 2026 elections, ending its uninterrupted plurality since 1999; Plaid Cymru will emerge as the party with the most seats.

• emergence

  1 essay · 0 predictions

  • The Emergence Paradox: How the Myth of Spontaneous Order Prevents Spontaneous Order

• emergency administrative stay

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-05-09-376 A US federal appellate court (Federal Circuit) will grant an emergency administrative stay reinstating the 10% global baseline tariff within 14 days of the Trade Court ruling, by 2026-05-23, pending full merits briefing and panel review.

• emergency bandwidth saturation

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  • pred-2026-05-06-363 The WHO will NOT issue a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) or equivalent formal international health alert (e.g., WHO Grade 3 Emergency with international spread finding) for the South African cruise-ship human-to-human hantavirus strain before June 17, 2026.

• emergency stay standard: likelihood of success plus irreparable harm

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  • pred-2026-05-09-380 The Trump administration will secure a judicial emergency stay (from the circuit court, SCOTUS, or both) reinstating the 10% global tariff regime by May 23, 2026 — within 14 days of the Court of International Trade ruling striking it down.

• emergency supplemental appropriations as necessity-framing vehicle

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-05-12-399 No US Congressional committee will hold formal hearings specifically on an Iran AUMF authorization or advance an emergency supplemental appropriations bill specifically for Iran military operations to floor vote by June 23, 2026; any Congressional activity will be limited to non-binding oversight measures (press releases, informal briefings, or non-binding resolutions introduced but not voted).

• emergency-stay-doctrine

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  • pred-2026-05-10-383 Within 14 days of the court ruling striking down 10% global tariffs (by 2026-05-24), the Trump administration will file an emergency stay application in federal court OR issue a new executive order reimposing substantially equivalent global tariff measures (≥8% on a broad category of imports).

• employer nic cost-push

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  • pred-2026-03-24-091 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast downward by at least 0.5 percentage points from its Autumn 2025 Statement projection in the Spring Statement 2026 fiscal event on March 26, 2026.

• employer nic transmission mechanism

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  • pred-2026-03-22-073 The OBR's Spring Statement 2026 forecast will project UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 at or below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Statement projection of approximately 1.6–1.7%.

• endogenous money

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  • pred-2026-04-07-169 US headline CPI for March 2026 will print at or above 3.5% year-over-year when released approximately April 10, 2026.

• endogenous threshold

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  • pred-2026-03-28-143 Neither a binding UNSC humanitarian access resolution (or emergency framework) specifically for Lebanon nor a formal Lebanese government Chapter VII request will be adopted or lodged by May 15, 2026. The UNSC output will be limited to non-binding language, presidential statements, or renewed UNIFIL mandate discussions.

• energy chokepoint embedding

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  • pred-2026-04-08-177 The March 2026 US headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released during the week of April 7–11, 2026, driven by tariff pass-through in goods categories and embedded energy cost from the pre-ceasefire Iran-Hormuz disruption.

• energy cost pass-through

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  • pred-2026-03-29-145 The US ISM Manufacturing PMI for March 2026 will print below 48.0 upon release circa April 1, 2026, confirming manufacturing contraction consistent with compound tariff escalation and Hormuz-driven energy cost pass-through into manufacturing inputs.

• energy pass-through

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  • pred-2026-05-06-362 The BLS April 2026 CPI release (expected May 13–14, 2026) will show headline CPI year-over-year at or above 3.5%, driven by Hormuz-disruption gasoline price transmission into the consumer basket.

• energy pass-through regressive transmission

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  • pred-2026-03-29-153 The OBR's Spring Statement (March 31, 2026) will publish a UK 2026 GDP growth forecast strictly below 1.0%.

• energy price shock

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  • pred-2026-03-21-061 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (expected March 26, 2026), down from the October 2025 forecast of approximately 1.6%.

• energy shock transmission

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  • pred-2026-03-22-067 The BEA's February 2026 core PCE price index release (~March 28, 2026) will show core PCE inflation at or above 2.8% year-over-year.

• enforcement credibility signal

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  • pred-2026-03-27-001 By April 7, 2026, at least one of the following will occur: (a) a formal GCC joint communiqué condemning or demanding reversal of Iran's Hormuz transit fees, (b) a CENTCOM freedom-of-navigation counter-announcement or declaration regarding the transit fee, or (c) Brent crude closing above $108/barrel on at least one trading day — with Brent crossing $108 as the primary resolution pathway (est. 70% standalone probability) and a CENTCOM declaration as the secondary (est. 55% standalone), and GCC communiqué as the least likely of the three (est. 28% standalone).

• enforcement deficit

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  • pred-2026-04-12-221 The Orthodox Easter ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine will hold at the formal threshold through April 20, 2026 — neither side will formally announce a breakdown NOR execute verified large-scale coordinated offensive operations — while tactical violations continue below the threshold of acknowledged defection.

• enforcement substitution

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  • pred-2026-04-09-191 By June 4, 2026, at least 3 US states (most likely from NY, CA, MA, IL, CO, or WA) will publicly announce or formally launch corporate securities enforcement actions or new regulatory frameworks explicitly framed in official communications — press releases, legislative testimony, or formal AG statements — as filling the enforcement vacuum created by the SEC chair's withdrawal from corporate policing.

• entitlement

  1 essay · 0 predictions

  • Policy Brief: The Journey as Recognition-Embargo — Restoring Entitlement-Accumulation in Platform, Gig, and Migration Labor

• entrepreneurial adjustment lag

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  • pred-2026-04-17-235 Brent crude oil will exceed $110/bbl on at least one trading day between 2026-04-17 and 2026-04-27, given the active US naval blockade of Iranian ports and a $103/bbl baseline.

• entrepreneurial arbitrage

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  • pred-2026-05-05-356 The BLS April 2026 CPI report (~May 13 release) will show headline YoY inflation at or above 3.5%, consistent with measurable tariff pass-through crossing that threshold in the April measurement window.

• entrepreneurial arbitrage as pressure valve

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  • pred-2026-05-05-357 The US-China tariff standoff will persist without formal structural engagement through June 30, 2026 — no joint US-China statement on tariff negotiation, no ministerial-level or above bilateral negotiating session, and no publicly announced mutual tariff suspension on any product category will emerge before that date.

• entrepreneurial arbitrage lag

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  • pred-2026-03-21-059 TTF natural gas spot prices will average above €55/MWh across the April 1–28, 2026 window, driven by Qatar LNG facility strike and sustained Gulf conflict disruption to spot cargo flows into Europe.
  • pred-2026-03-24-095 TTF natural gas front-month spot price will close above €75/MWh on at least 6 of the 15 trading sessions from March 25 to April 14, 2026, reflecting sustained price elevation from the combined QatarEnergy LNG force majeure and Hormuz disruption shock.

• entrepreneurial calculation paralysis

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  • pred-2026-03-27-127 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast to below 1.5% in the Spring Statement (due 2026-03-31), down from approximately 2.0% in the Autumn Statement 2025, citing Hormuz-driven energy costs and trade uncertainty.

• entrepreneurial circumvention

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  • pred-2026-03-22-077 By May 15, 2026, the EU will formally approve a Ukraine financial support package of €35bn or more — either through Hungarian consent obtained via bilateral side-payment (cohesion fund releases or rule-of-law concessions) or through a mechanism that structurally reduces Hungary's formal veto surface (ERA instrument backed by frozen Russian asset revenues, enhanced cooperation, or G7 extraordinary-revenue vehicle).

• entrepreneurial competitor discovery (reform + greens two-front squeeze)

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  • pred-2026-04-26-320 In the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senedd, and English local elections, Labour's combined vote share in comparable contested areas falls more than 5 percentage points below its 2024 general election baseline, as measured by Electoral Commission and council/Senedd/Holyrood declared results by May 10, 2026.

• entrepreneurial discovery (hayek)

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  • pred-2026-04-24-301 The Liberal Party of Canada under Mark Carney will win enough seats on April 28, 2026 to form government (minority or majority), and Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party will fail to form government.

• entrepreneurial discovery and self-amplifying repricing overshoot (austrian)

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  • pred-2026-05-13-402 UK 10-year gilt yields will breach 5.5% at least once during the period May 13 – July 8, 2026, as compound political-fiscal stress from the Starmer ministerial crisis reinforces the pre-existing 27-year high borrowing cost trajectory.

• entrepreneurial discovery cascade

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  • pred-2026-04-13-231 By April 26, 2026, at least 3 G7 members beyond the UK will issue formal, public governmental statements declining to participate in the US Hormuz blockade — most likely Germany, Japan, and France.

• entrepreneurial discovery deficit

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  • pred-2026-03-23-089 No formal ceasefire agreement or publicly announced binding de-escalation framework between Iran and the United States will be announced by May 15, 2026, whether through Pakistan, Gulf-state, or direct mediation.

• entrepreneurial discovery lag

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  • pred-2026-03-26-113 The United States and Iran will NOT publicly announce the opening of formal direct bilateral nuclear negotiations on or before May 15, 2026; back-channel or third-party mediation activity may intensify but will not produce a jointly acknowledged formal bilateral announcement within this window.

• entrepreneurial discovery under administrative pricing

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  • pred-2026-03-19-041 The Japanese government will publicly reject, formally challenge, or announce a counter-proposal to the reported ~$6bn SoftBank fee embedded in US bilateral trade deal terms by April 16, 2026 — most likely reframing the demand as an investment pledge or FDI commitment rather than issuing a clean structural rejection.

• entrepreneurial discovery under radical uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.

• entrepreneurial discovery without asset ownership

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  • pred-2026-04-11-209 The KMT opposition leader's April 2026 meeting with Xi Jinping will NOT produce a publicly announced formal cross-strait dialogue proposal, joint communiqué, or institutionalized communication channel by June 5, 2026.

• entrepreneurial intermediary arbitrage

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  • pred-2026-04-21-267 By May 5, 2026, neither the US nor Iran will publicly acknowledge the reported Islamabad back-channel talks through any jointly recognized framework, agreed formal agenda, or confirmed next-round meeting date; the public-denial/back-channel split will persist without official acknowledgment from either Tehran or Washington.

• entrepreneurial knowledge asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-04-26-324 Within six weeks of the confirmed Orbán coalition election defeat (by 2026-06-07), the Hungarian forint will depreciate more than 8% against the euro, measured from the EUR/HUF rate on the day of confirmed defeat.

• entrepreneurial leverage premium

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  • pred-2026-05-08-372 The United States will not conduct direct kinetic strikes on Iranian territory or Iranian military installations inside Iran by June 30, 2026; any kinetic response will remain outside Iranian borders — targeting Iranian naval vessels or oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, or Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria, or Yemen.

• entrepreneurial mediation

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  • pred-2026-04-22-287 No written framework, parameters document, or joint statement of principles on US-Iran nuclear de-escalation will be jointly announced by June 15, 2026; talks will remain in procedural or exploratory contact phase at best

• entrepreneurial optionality-hoarding

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  • pred-2026-05-01-334 The April 2026 US nonfarm payrolls report (released May 2, 2026) will show net job creation above 150,000, with the headline number in the 160,000–195,000 range, sustained by BLS birth-death model contributions, post-pandemic labor-hoarding norms, and service-sector insulation from goods-sector tariff disruption — despite real underlying deterioration in job quality and a demand-side headwind from tariff-induced income compression and Iran war fiscal lag

• entrepreneurial political discovery

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  • pred-2026-04-11-215 By June 6, 2026, at least one NATO member state will formally request renegotiation of US military base access terms or publicly announce an official government review of existing basing agreements, explicitly citing Atlantic realignment dynamics, reduced US credibility, or the Iran crisis as justification.

• entrepreneurial pre-positioning

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  • pred-2026-04-19-247 Brent crude oil will NOT close below $98/bbl on any trading day between April 21 and May 2, 2026, even if a formal US-Iran ceasefire or diplomatic breakthrough is announced during this window.

• entrepreneurial probing below formal-collapse threshold

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  • pred-2026-04-25-315 The Lebanon ceasefire extended ~2026-04-21 will NOT collapse before its scheduled expiry (~2026-05-12) through a major Israeli ground operation launch or formal escalation declaration; instead it will reach expiry through incremental erosion, quiet non-renewal, or a brief additional extension.

• entrepreneurial recalculation

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  • pred-2026-04-07-165 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 5, 2026 (released April 10, 2026) will come in BELOW 230,000, remaining consistent with pre-tariff baseline and within the structural lag window before tariff-shock displacement becomes visible in formal claims data.

• entrepreneurial substitution

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  • pred-2026-04-08-183 US March 2026 headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released approximately April 10, 2026.

• entrepreneurial-political-market-discovery

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  • pred-2026-05-03-340 In the UK local elections on 7 May 2026, Labour will suffer a net loss of more than 150 council seats, and the visible internal party response will be framed as a communications or messaging failure rather than a structural reckoning with the government's economic direction.

• era instrument structural design

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  • pred-2026-03-22-077 By May 15, 2026, the EU will formally approve a Ukraine financial support package of €35bn or more — either through Hungarian consent obtained via bilateral side-payment (cohesion fund releases or rule-of-law concessions) or through a mechanism that structurally reduces Hungary's formal veto surface (ERA instrument backed by frozen Russian asset revenues, enhanced cooperation, or G7 extraordinary-revenue vehicle).

• eu conditionality

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  • pred-2026-03-26-119 Fidesz wins at least 133 of 199 parliamentary seats in the April 2026 Hungarian election, retaining its two-thirds constitutional supermajority.

• eu institutional grammar and dg trade precedent-logic

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  • pred-2026-05-09-381 By June 30, 2026, the EU will formally pause, extend, or substantially modify its July 4 retaliatory tariff ultimatum against the US, and will cite US domestic court battles over tariff legality as a stated ground for the modification, rather than allowing the deadline to stand unchanged.

• eu normalization premium lag

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  • pred-2026-04-26-324 Within six weeks of the confirmed Orbán coalition election defeat (by 2026-06-07), the Hungarian forint will depreciate more than 8% against the euro, measured from the EUR/HUF rate on the day of confirmed defeat.

• euphoria

  1 essay · 0 predictions

  • The Theocratic Conversion Rate: Wordplay, Euphoric Discharge, and the Status-Anxiety Currency Problem

• evidence

  1 essay · 0 predictions

  • The Evidentiary Constitution of Property: Tribunal, Omen, and the Insurrection Threshold

• evidentiary laundry

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  • pred-2026-04-22-281 At least one of WFP, OCHA, or the IPC Famine Review Committee will formally declare IPC Phase 5 (famine) conditions in at least one zone of Gaza by June 17, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-26-322 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following the April 29–30, 2026 FOMC meeting AND will not issue explicit forward guidance committing to a rate cut at the June 2026 meeting; the statement will use 'data dependent' and 'elevated uncertainty' language while deferring any June characterization.
  • pred-2026-05-02-337 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, maintaining the current target range with no cut and no hike, citing elevated supply-side inflation and 'heightened uncertainty' as grounds for continued data-dependence.

• evidentiary laundry and information architecture

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  • pred-2026-05-08-373 The April 2026 US CPI report (released approximately May 13, 2026) will show month-over-month headline inflation at or above 0.4%, driven by energy price transmission from the Hormuz disruption and sustained gas prices.

• evidentiary laundry circuit

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  • pred-2026-05-12-399 No US Congressional committee will hold formal hearings specifically on an Iran AUMF authorization or advance an emergency supplemental appropriations bill specifically for Iran military operations to floor vote by June 23, 2026; any Congressional activity will be limited to non-binding oversight measures (press releases, informal briefings, or non-binding resolutions introduced but not voted).

• evidentiary laundry: treasury assessment formats base capital interest as national-security finding, prior confirmed through institutional output

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  • pred-2026-05-04-351 The UK government will issue a communiqué, Treasury statement of intent, or signed agreement formally associating itself with co-financing the EU's €90bn Ukraine loan package by 2026-06-01. The commitment will most likely take the form of a communiqué or bilateral statement of intent rather than a fully integrated co-financing agreement — all four frameworks agree on outcome but converge on the softer instrument as the modal form.

• evidentiary-laundry

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  • pred-2026-04-19-249 No formal IPC Phase 5 famine declaration will be issued for any part of Gaza before May 3, 2026; current 'imminent famine' and Phase 5 risk language will persist as a stable institutional intermediate register without upgrade to formal declaration.

• excluded bourgeoisie demonstration logic

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  • pred-2026-03-18-031 Iran or an Iran-directed proxy will execute a publicly confirmed kinetic attack on Gulf Arab energy infrastructure (oil/gas facilities, pipelines, export terminals, or refinery complexes) by April 1, 2026.

• executive

  2 essays · 0 predictions

  • Policy Brief: Nostalgia as Governance Occupation
  • The Interest Trickster: Executive Temporality, Joy's Absence, and the Discount Rate as Governance Grammar

• executive deference

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  • pred-2026-03-17-015 The US Supreme Court will NOT issue a stay or preliminary injunction halting the administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status within 14 days of the March 17, 2026 expedited argument session (resolution by 2026-03-31).

• executive discretionary authority (ieepa)

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-03-28-133 The US Liberation Day tariff package announced April 2, 2026 will NOT be implemented cleanly on schedule — by April 11, 2026, announced bilateral exemptions, product exclusions, implementation delays, or country-specific carve-outs will collectively affect more than 20% of the originally targeted import value.

• executive emergency authority path dependence

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  • pred-2026-05-09-376 A US federal appellate court (Federal Circuit) will grant an emergency administrative stay reinstating the 10% global baseline tariff within 14 days of the Trade Court ruling, by 2026-05-23, pending full merits briefing and panel review.

• executive information monopoly on classified cost data

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-05-12-399 No US Congressional committee will hold formal hearings specifically on an Iran AUMF authorization or advance an emergency supplemental appropriations bill specifically for Iran military operations to floor vote by June 23, 2026; any Congressional activity will be limited to non-binding oversight measures (press releases, informal briefings, or non-binding resolutions introduced but not voted).

• executive switching cost lock-in

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  • pred-2026-04-09-189 By April 22, 2026, neither the United States nor Iran will publicly announce withdrawal, suspension, or termination of the ceasefire framework — the formal diplomatic shell will remain intact despite ongoing sub-formal violations in Lebanon and continued unresolved terms in the 10-point plan.

• executive tariff authority (section 232/301) as fast-track bypass

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-04-25-314 The King Charles visit to President Trump (by 2026-04-28) will NOT result in a formal US public announcement of tariff relief, exemption, or bilateral trade framework for UK goods by 2026-05-05. The most likely output is a joint statement with aspirational trade language and announcement of accelerated negotiations or a bilateral working group.

• executive unilateral trade authority

  0 essays · 1 prediction

  • pred-2026-04-10-195 At least one unannounced tariff measure — executive order imposing new duties, retaliatory product list expansion, or formal suspension of a trade exemption — will be publicly announced by either the US or China between April 10–24, 2026, without having been publicly pre-signaled before April 10.

• executive-authority-preservation-norm

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  • pred-2026-05-10-383 Within 14 days of the court ruling striking down 10% global tariffs (by 2026-05-24), the Trump administration will file an emergency stay application in federal court OR issue a new executive order reimposing substantially equivalent global tariff measures (≥8% on a broad category of imports).

• exit asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-03-17-017 No publicly announced US-China presidential summit or scheduled Xi-Trump direct bilateral communication will be made by May 1, 2026. The relationship will remain in managed-tension equilibrium with back-channel activity but no formal announcement.
  • pred-2026-03-17-021 No publicly announced operative agreement (ceasefire extension, hostage deal, or binding framework document with operational parameters) will emerge from the Cairo talks by March 28, 2026. Any public statement issued will be a procedural communiqué or vague progress declaration without binding commitments on ceasefire duration, hostage releases, or withdrawal timelines.
  • pred-2026-03-17-023 The United States will NOT execute or publicly authorize direct military strikes on Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026. Proxy-level operations, Iranian-controlled external asset targeting (IRGC positions in Syria/Iraq, Houthi infrastructure), and covert harassment will remain the dominant pressure mode. No White House or DoD public authorization of strikes framed as targeting Iran itself.
  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper
  • pred-2026-03-18-031 Iran or an Iran-directed proxy will execute a publicly confirmed kinetic attack on Gulf Arab energy infrastructure (oil/gas facilities, pipelines, export terminals, or refinery complexes) by April 1, 2026.
  • pred-2026-03-18-035 OPEC+ will convene an unscheduled emergency ministerial meeting OR issue a formal communiqué announcing a production policy adjustment (increase, cut, or readiness pledge) in direct response to the Gulf energy disruption by April 30, 2026.
  • pred-2026-03-21-055 The left-wing coalition (PS/Greens/NUPES-aligned) retains the Paris mayoralty in the 2026 municipal elections, with second-round results by March 30, 2026 confirming Hidalgo or a designated left successor as mayor with a margin of at least 3 percentage points over the leading right/centrist challenger.
  • pred-2026-03-22-069 Iran will NOT formally suspend IAEA inspector access nor announce NPT withdrawal within 14 days of the Natanz strike — i.e., no formal suspension order or NPT withdrawal notice will be issued by 2026-04-05. Iran will instead escalate within the framework: accelerated enrichment, reduced inspector access, expulsion of specific personnel, and declaratory threats, while preserving formal treaty membership.

• exit credibility

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  • pred-2026-03-19-041 The Japanese government will publicly reject, formally challenge, or announce a counter-proposal to the reported ~$6bn SoftBank fee embedded in US bilateral trade deal terms by April 16, 2026 — most likely reframing the demand as an investment pledge or FDI commitment rather than issuing a clean structural rejection.

• exit-asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-03-17-019 The Bank of England MPC will hold the Bank Rate at 4.5% at its March 19-20 meeting, with a vote split of at least 7-2 (hold-cut), meaning 2 or more members dissent in favor of a 25bp cut.
  • pred-2026-03-18-027 The Eurozone composite flash PMI for March 2026 will print below 49.0, signaling economic contraction, with the manufacturing sub-index leading at 46–47 and services dragging the composite to approximately 48.2–48.8.
  • pred-2026-03-19-043 European TTF natural gas spot price will close above €45/MWh on at least 3 of the 5 trading days from March 20–26, 2026, as markets price in the confirmed 17% reduction in Qatar LNG capacity following Iranian strikes.
  • pred-2026-03-19-047 At least 2 GCC member states beyond Qatar (most likely Saudi Arabia + Bahrain or UAE) will formally downgrade, suspend, or sever diplomatic relations with Iran by May 14, 2026, following Iran's strikes on Qatari LNG infrastructure.
  • pred-2026-03-22-071 The European Union will formally announce a retaliatory tariff package against US goods — with specific named product lists and stated rates — on or before 2026-05-03, though implementation will likely be suspended or staged pending negotiations.
  • pred-2026-03-23-081 By April 6, 2026, at least one publicly confirmed instance of direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic communication will occur — through the Omani channel, a UN interlocutor, or an official statement from any party acknowledging that talks are underway — as opposed to continued public escalation or formal rejection of negotiations on all fronts.
  • pred-2026-03-23-083 The Supreme Court of Canada will neither issue a substantive ruling striking down nor grant leave to appeal in a manner that substantially limits Quebec's Bill 21 (Act Respecting the Laicity of the State) before May 18, 2026.

• exit-reconstituted electorate

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  • pred-2026-03-21-055 The left-wing coalition (PS/Greens/NUPES-aligned) retains the Paris mayoralty in the 2026 municipal elections, with second-round results by March 30, 2026 confirming Hidalgo or a designated left successor as mayor with a margin of at least 3 percentage points over the leading right/centrist challenger.

• exit-threshold

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  • pred-2026-03-20-053 The European Commission will NOT formally invoke the Gas Security of Supply Regulation (2017/1938 or successor) or authorize coordinated strategic reserve drawdowns in response to Qatar LNG supply disruption by May 15, 2026. Instead, the Commission will activate softer coordination instruments: EU Energy Platform convening, emergency supply monitoring, joint procurement facilitation, and Commission communications — without crossing the formal solidarity-trigger or drawdown-authorization threshold.
  • pred-2026-03-21-065 By 2026-05-01, Iran will NOT formally declare a nuclear-threshold posture (IAEA inspector suspension, 90%+ weapons-grade enrichment announcement, or NPT withdrawal) in response to the Natanz strike. Iran will instead pursue sub-threshold escalation through proxy operations, unannounced enrichment acceleration, and partial IAEA access restrictions while preserving strategic ambiguity as institutional leverage.

• exploitation

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  • Policy Brief: The Journey as Recognition-Embargo — Restoring Entitlement-Accumulation in Platform, Gig, and Migration Labor

• exploitation-before-institution-building sequencing

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  • pred-2026-05-07-366 By June 30, 2026, China will NOT formally announce a bilateral or multilateral diplomatic initiative — hosted talks, ceasefire proposal, or maritime security framework — for the Hormuz standoff; Beijing will conduct back-channel mediation and issue rhetorical calls for dialogue through SCO/BRI venues but will not make a public, attributable formal commitment to a resolution process.

• export substitution valve

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  • pred-2026-03-27-131 At least one of BYD, NIO, Li Auto, or XPENG will publicly announce production cuts, factory suspensions, or workforce reductions by 2026-05-08 (6 weeks from 2026-03-27), as domestic margin compression from the ongoing price war renders expansion uneconomical.

• external demand shock

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  • pred-2026-04-24-301 The Liberal Party of Canada under Mark Carney will win enough seats on April 28, 2026 to form government (minority or majority), and Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party will fail to form government.

• external patron transaction-cost subsidy

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  • pred-2026-04-08-185 Lebanon will experience at least one of: (a) formal government collapse with failure to form a replacement within 30 days, (b) resumption of large-scale armed conflict involving at least one non-state actor and Lebanese state forces with >50 combat deaths in a single week, or (c) internationally recognized de facto territorial partition acknowledged by 3+ UN Security Council members — by October 8, 2026.

• extraction circuit

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  • pred-2026-04-07-169 US headline CPI for March 2026 will print at or above 3.5% year-over-year when released approximately April 10, 2026.

• extraction compound institutional shell

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  • pred-2026-04-07-173 Lebanon's post-ceasefire government will remain formally intact through June 2, 2026 — no formal coalition withdrawal, no declared parliamentary majority loss, no cabinet dissolution — despite continued Israeli airstrikes and deepening sectarian fissures

• extraction coupling

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  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.

• extraction-as-generosity

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  • pred-2026-03-15-003 At least one major G7 economy will announce new import tariffs or domestic industrial subsidies in Q2-Q3 2026 (April–September 2026) explicitly framed as 'protecting workers,' 'industrial fairness,' or equivalent labor-solidarity language, where independent distributional analysis confirms the primary economic beneficiary is an upstream extractive or capital-intensive monopoly sector rather than the downstream labor force named in the announcement.

• extraction-node allocation

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  • pred-2026-04-20-263 Iraq's ruling Shia bloc will fail to achieve both formal nomination AND parliamentary confirmation of a new prime minister by June 1, 2026, with the process remaining unresolved or stalled at the confirmation stage.

• extractive complementarity

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  • pred-2026-04-13-229 Brent crude oil will close above $100/barrel on at least 4 of the 5 trading days from April 14–18, 2026, given the announced US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

• extractive coupling

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  • pred-2026-04-17-235 Brent crude oil will exceed $110/bbl on at least one trading day between 2026-04-17 and 2026-04-27, given the active US naval blockade of Iranian ports and a $103/bbl baseline.

• extractive coupling (sanctions as administrative blockade — material extraction via compliance-pressure)

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  • pred-2026-04-23-291 By May 7, 2026, the US government will announce at least one of the following: (1) formal new OFAC/Treasury sanctions specifically naming IRGC naval units involved in the seizure, (2) deployment orders for an additional carrier strike group to the Arabian Sea or Gulf of Oman, or (3) a direct diplomatic channel opening resulting in the seized vessel's release — with Option 1 as the primary mechanism at ≥75% internal probability.

• extractive institutional logic

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  • pred-2026-04-25-318 The Malian transitional government will NOT formally declare a national state of emergency AND will NOT publicly request emergency military reinforcement from any external partner (Russia/Africa Corps successor, neighboring state, or the African Union) within 60 days of the late-April 2026 coordinated attacks.

• extractive institutions

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  • pred-2026-03-26-119 Fidesz wins at least 133 of 199 parliamentary seats in the April 2026 Hungarian election, retaining its two-thirds constitutional supermajority.
  • pred-2026-04-12-223 The Hungarian opposition coalition led by TISZA will fail to deny Fidesz its parliamentary supermajority (≥133 seats) in the April 2026 elections — Fidesz will retain constitutional amendment capacity.

• face-saving reframe as dominant german political-institutional equilibrium move under transatlantic pressure

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  • pred-2026-05-03-345 By 2026-06-14, the German government will formally announce a substantial modification to its troop reduction decision — defined as an implementation pause, supplementary force commitment, or ministerial reframing that functionally conditions or negates the original reduction — in response to combined US Republican pressure and Russian border signaling. A clean formal retraction is not required; a face-saving reformulation that satisfies allied stakeholders counts as YES.

• factional competition

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  • pred-2026-04-10-193 By April 20, 2026, Iranian authorities (IRGC, Foreign Ministry, or Supreme Leader's office) will issue at least one of the following in direct response to Trump's Hormuz passage warning: a formal counter-statement or diplomatic note, a naval repositioning or exercise announcement, or a NOTAM issuance — with the Foreign Ministry verbal counter-statement being near-certain and an IRGC operational signal being likely.

• factional entrepreneurship

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  • pred-2026-05-06-359 Iranian government officials will NOT issue any formal statement or diplomatic action officially indicating openness to negotiation over Hormuz transit access before May 20, 2026 (within 14 days of the Project Freedom pause announcement)

• factional veto points

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  • pred-2026-03-22-069 Iran will NOT formally suspend IAEA inspector access nor announce NPT withdrawal within 14 days of the Natanz strike — i.e., no formal suspension order or NPT withdrawal notice will be issued by 2026-04-05. Iran will instead escalate within the framework: accelerated enrichment, reduced inspector access, expulsion of specific personnel, and declaratory threats, while preserving formal treaty membership.

• fait-accompli diplomacy sequencing

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  • pred-2026-05-07-366 By June 30, 2026, China will NOT formally announce a bilateral or multilateral diplomatic initiative — hosted talks, ceasefire proposal, or maritime security framework — for the Hormuz standoff; Beijing will conduct back-channel mediation and issue rhetorical calls for dialogue through SCO/BRI venues but will not make a public, attributable formal commitment to a resolution process.

• false consciousness vehicle

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  • pred-2026-04-21-265 Reform UK will finish in second place ahead of the Conservative Party in the Birmingham by-election, while Labour retains the seat with a majority below 5,000 votes

• false price signal / malinvestment correction

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  • pred-2026-04-26-320 In the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senedd, and English local elections, Labour's combined vote share in comparable contested areas falls more than 5 percentage points below its 2024 general election baseline, as measured by Electoral Commission and council/Senedd/Holyrood declared results by May 10, 2026.

• fatwa as rule-in-use

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  • pred-2026-03-21-065 By 2026-05-01, Iran will NOT formally declare a nuclear-threshold posture (IAEA inspector suspension, 90%+ weapons-grade enrichment announcement, or NPT withdrawal) in response to the Natanz strike. Iran will instead pursue sub-threshold escalation through proxy operations, unannounced enrichment acceleration, and partial IAEA access restrictions while preserving strategic ambiguity as institutional leverage.

• fed independence norm

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  • pred-2026-05-05-355 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, AND the post-meeting statement and Powell press conference will not signal that a rate cut is imminent (i.e., will not pre-commit to or strongly imply a June 2026 cut, defined as no shift to >70% market-implied probability of June cut immediately post-conference).

• fed institutional paralysis

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  • pred-2026-03-23-079 The Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE price index at or above 2.8% year-over-year when data releases on or around March 28, 2026.

• federal circuit deference norm

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  • pred-2026-05-09-376 A US federal appellate court (Federal Circuit) will grant an emergency administrative stay reinstating the 10% global baseline tariff within 14 days of the Trade Court ruling, by 2026-05-23, pending full merits briefing and panel review.

• federal circuit deference norms on executive trade authority

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  • pred-2026-05-08-371 The Trump administration will obtain an emergency appellate stay of the Court of International Trade ruling invalidating the 10% global baseline tariffs within 14 days of that ruling (by May 21, 2026), keeping the tariffs operationally in force pending full appellate review.

• federal funds rate

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  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.

• federal-state cost misalignment

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  • pred-2026-05-10-387 The House Agriculture Committee will approve a reconciliation markup including SNAP spending reductions and/or new or expanded work requirements before 2026-06-30, with eligibility restrictions (categorical eligibility elimination, ABAWD expansion, or BBCE elimination) carrying the primary fiscal scoring weight alongside work requirement language.

• feedback

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  • Policy Brief: The Modular Trap — Constitutional Architecture and the Dual Occupation Feedback Loop

• fertility

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  • Policy Brief: Redirecting Pro-Natalist Spending Toward Class-Reproduction Cost Reduction

• fictitious capital saturation

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  • pred-2026-05-11-391 Brent crude oil spot price will NOT breach $95 per barrel on any trading day close between May 12 and May 18, 2026, despite the confirmed Strait of Hormuz cargo ship attack at Day 71+ of escalation — a spike of $4–8 intraday is plausible but sustained closes above $95 are not.

• finance capital anti-inflation encoding

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  • pred-2026-05-04-346 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, maintaining the current target range without adjustment of any magnitude.

• finance capital vs. political-industrial capital class conflict

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  • pred-2026-05-06-360 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at the June 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no rate reduction, despite ongoing tariff-driven and Hormuz-linked inflationary pressure and emerging signs of demand weakness.

• finance-capital discipline

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  • pred-2026-05-12-398 The UK government will NOT announce a formal emergency fiscal consolidation measure (unscheduled spending review, emergency budget statement, or explicit new multi-billion-pound spending cut commitment) by May 26, 2026; the government will instead deploy Chancellor statements reaffirming existing fiscal rules, coordinated Treasury-OBR messaging, and verbal commitments without concrete new cuts.

• finance-capital veto

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  • pred-2026-03-17-023 The United States will NOT execute or publicly authorize direct military strikes on Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026. Proxy-level operations, Iranian-controlled external asset targeting (IRGC positions in Syria/Iraq, Houthi infrastructure), and covert harassment will remain the dominant pressure mode. No White House or DoD public authorization of strikes framed as targeting Iran itself.

• financial capital class positioning

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  • pred-2026-05-05-355 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, AND the post-meeting statement and Powell press conference will not signal that a rate cut is imminent (i.e., will not pre-commit to or strongly imply a June 2026 cut, defined as no shift to >70% market-implied probability of June cut immediately post-conference).

• financial capital managed-volatility rent

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  • pred-2026-04-12-225 The Iran-Hormuz ceasefire will not collapse before April 26, 2026 — neither (a) renewed Iranian military interdiction of commercial shipping nor (b) a formal US or Israeli declaration of resumed offensive operations against Iranian forces will occur within this window.

• financial derivatives threshold-cascading

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  • pred-2026-04-17-235 Brent crude oil will exceed $110/bbl on at least one trading day between 2026-04-17 and 2026-04-27, given the active US naval blockade of Iranian ports and a $103/bbl baseline.

• financialization

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  • pred-2026-03-19-043 European TTF natural gas spot price will close above €45/MWh on at least 3 of the 5 trading days from March 20–26, 2026, as markets price in the confirmed 17% reduction in Qatar LNG capacity following Iranian strikes.

• financialized accumulation regime

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  • pred-2026-03-18-033 The OBR forecast published at the UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will show UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Budget forecast

• first-mover advantage in elite exit

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  • pred-2026-04-26-324 Within six weeks of the confirmed Orbán coalition election defeat (by 2026-06-07), the Hungarian forint will depreciate more than 8% against the euro, measured from the EUR/HUF rate on the day of confirmed defeat.

• first-mover asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-04-22-279 None of the three formal challenge triggers materialize by May 6, 2026: no cabinet-level resignation directly linked to the Robbins/diplomatic-job revelations, no formal Labour leadership nomination letter signed by 20+ MPs, and no government defeat on a Commons confidence-adjacent motion.

• first-mover coordination trap

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  • pred-2026-04-10-201 Commercial tanker passage through the Strait of Hormuz will recover to at least 60% of pre-conflict baseline traffic volumes by April 24, 2026, following ceasefire diplomacy.

• first-mover cost elimination

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  • pred-2026-04-13-231 By April 26, 2026, at least 3 G7 members beyond the UK will issue formal, public governmental statements declining to participate in the US Hormuz blockade — most likely Germany, Japan, and France.

• first-mover disadvantage in collective defection

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  • pred-2026-04-12-227 By June 7, 2026, at least one major GCC sovereign wealth fund (ADIA, PIF, QIA, or KIA) will publicly announce a formal reallocation strategy reducing US-denominated asset exposure by 10%+ or establishing a new European/Swiss-domiciled investment vehicle, explicitly citing Iran-war geopolitical risk or Hormuz corridor uncertainty as justification.

• fiscal consolidation multiplier in demand-deficient environment

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  • pred-2026-03-19-045 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth projection below 1.5% in its Spring 2026 forecast published alongside the Spring Statement on or around March 26, 2026

• fiscal consolidation ratchet

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  • pred-2026-03-22-073 The OBR's Spring Statement 2026 forecast will project UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 at or below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Statement projection of approximately 1.6–1.7%.

• fiscal credibility trap

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  • pred-2026-05-12-396 The UK government will not table a revised welfare reform bill containing substantive conditionality or activity requirements before July 7, 2026.

• fiscal dominance

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  • pred-2026-05-01-335 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing forward guidance consistent with continued data-dependency and no imminent directional move.

• fiscal drag

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  • pred-2026-04-22-283 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show negative real GDP growth (annualized rate below 0%), likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by a net exports collapse from pre-tariff import front-loading.

• fiscal exogeneity as norm-disruption

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  • pred-2026-03-29-149 HM Government will formally announce at least two material privatization initiatives — including NHS trust transfers, public utility stake disposals, public land sales, infrastructure fund transfers, or functionally equivalent arm's-length asset transfers denominated as fiscal consolidation measures — by 2026-12-31, even if not labeled 'privatization' in ministerial statements.

• fiscal headroom

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  • pred-2026-03-21-061 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (expected March 26, 2026), down from the October 2025 forecast of approximately 1.6%.
  • pred-2026-03-25-097 The OBR Spring Statement (March 26, 2026) will certify UK fiscal headroom below £5bn against the stability rule, most likely in the £1–3bn range; the Chancellor will maintain nominal compliance through within-rule accounting flexibility (investment/current reclassification, forecast-year adjustment, or spending timing shifts) rather than announcing a formal named revision to the stability rule itself.

• fiscal lag asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-05-01-334 The April 2026 US nonfarm payrolls report (released May 2, 2026) will show net job creation above 150,000, with the headline number in the 160,000–195,000 range, sustained by BLS birth-death model contributions, post-pandemic labor-hoarding norms, and service-sector insulation from goods-sector tariff disruption — despite real underlying deterioration in job quality and a demand-side headwind from tariff-induced income compression and Iran war fiscal lag

• fiscal multiplier and paradox of thrift

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  • pred-2026-03-23-087 The UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will announce welfare and/or disability benefit cuts or eligibility restrictions formally projected to save £5bn or more annually, with PIP eligibility tightening and/or UC work-capability conditionality intensification as the primary mechanism.

• fiscal multiplier at output gap

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  • pred-2026-03-29-153 The OBR's Spring Statement (March 31, 2026) will publish a UK 2026 GDP growth forecast strictly below 1.0%.

• fiscal multiplier reversal

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  • pred-2026-04-27-325 The BEA's advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP (scheduled for release ~April 30, 2026) will show a negative quarter-on-quarter annualized growth rate, i.e., real GDP contraction.

• fiscal multiplier timing

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  • pred-2026-05-07-364 Labour will lose net control of at least 3 councils and at least 150 council seats in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, confirming a major Reform/Green pincer surge.

• fiscal orthodoxy threshold

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  • pred-2026-04-27-330 At least one G7 economy other than Canada will formally announce a new sovereign wealth fund or a qualifying expansion (>$10bn USD equivalent) of an existing public investment vehicle by 2026-06-22.

• fiscal rule as binding institutional constraint

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  • pred-2026-03-23-087 The UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will announce welfare and/or disability benefit cuts or eligibility restrictions formally projected to save £5bn or more annually, with PIP eligibility tightening and/or UC work-capability conditionality intensification as the primary mechanism.

• fiscal rule as ideological constraint

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  • pred-2026-03-20-051 The UK Spring Statement on 26 March 2026 will announce a real-terms freeze or below-CPI uprating of Universal Credit and/or Housing Benefit, with savings explicitly or transparently linked (in the same fiscal event) to increased defence and/or infrastructure expenditure.

• fiscal rule trigger

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  • pred-2026-03-27-127 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast to below 1.5% in the Spring Statement (due 2026-03-31), down from approximately 2.0% in the Autumn Statement 2025, citing Hormuz-driven energy costs and trade uncertainty.

• fiscal rules as bond-market discipline instrument

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  • pred-2026-03-18-033 The OBR forecast published at the UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will show UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Budget forecast

• fiscal rules lock-in

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  • pred-2026-03-24-091 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast downward by at least 0.5 percentage points from its Autumn 2025 Statement projection in the Spring Statement 2026 fiscal event on March 26, 2026.

• fiscal surplus as capital-appeasement signal

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  • pred-2026-05-12-394 Treasurer Chalmers' 2026 Federal Budget will declare a nominal fiscal surplus AND include direct household cost-of-living transfers (energy rebates, rent assistance top-ups, targeted payment extensions) exceeding AUD 3 billion in aggregate across all line items.

• fiscal-capacity trap under cfa franc constraints

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  • pred-2026-04-25-318 The Malian transitional government will NOT formally declare a national state of emergency AND will NOT publicly request emergency military reinforcement from any external partner (Russia/Africa Corps successor, neighboring state, or the African Union) within 60 days of the late-April 2026 coordinated attacks.

• fiscal-consolidation-trap

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  • pred-2026-05-03-340 In the UK local elections on 7 May 2026, Labour will suffer a net loss of more than 150 council seats, and the visible internal party response will be framed as a communications or messaging failure rather than a structural reckoning with the government's economic direction.

• fiscal-constitutional coalition

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  • pred-2026-05-01-336 Congress will not advance any war powers resolution, supplemental appropriations bill, or defunding amendment specifically addressing the Iran military operation to a committee vote by June 26, 2026.

• fiscal-liquidity-preference

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  • pred-2026-03-25-103 The announced 6-day junior doctors strike in England will proceed for at least 4 of its 6 scheduled days without a government-negotiated suspension agreement.

• fiscal-military multiplier

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  • pred-2026-03-29-147 The US Department of Defense (via CENTCOM) will publicly confirm at least one new offensive airstrike against Houthi military infrastructure in Yemen between 2026-03-29 and 2026-04-05, citing the Houthi opening of a new operational front.

• fiscal-multiplier

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  • pred-2026-03-28-135 The OBR will revise its UK 2026 GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (March 30-31, 2026), specifically to a figure in the 0.7-0.99% range, signaling structural rather than cyclical deterioration.

• fiscal-rules

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  • pred-2026-03-27-121 The UK Spring Statement (delivered by 2026-03-31) will announce net reductions in working-age welfare benefit expenditure — framed as means-testing reforms, conditionality tightening, or efficiency measures — totalling at least £1 billion annually on OBR scoring.

• fiscal-rules-feedback

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  • pred-2026-03-28-135 The OBR will revise its UK 2026 GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (March 30-31, 2026), specifically to a figure in the 0.7-0.99% range, signaling structural rather than cyclical deterioration.

• focal defector

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  • pred-2026-04-21-273 The Starmer government will NOT experience a frontbench resignation or announce a by-election tied specifically to the Robbins/Mandelson vetting scandal within 14 days (by May 5, 2026); accountability pressure will be channeled into parliamentary scrutiny without producing institutional rupture.

• focal-event coordination

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  • pred-2026-05-10-382 No formal vote of no confidence or leadership contest nomination will be publicly submitted against Keir Starmer as Labour leader before 2026-05-24.

• focal-point reset mechanism

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  • pred-2026-05-13-400 The UK King's Speech, if delivered by 2026-05-27, will include at least one piece of primary legislation explicitly targeting NHS waiting-list reduction or housing supply as a named headline domestic bill — not merely a white paper, green paper, or regulatory commitment.

• fomc

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  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.

• fomc committee conservatism and status-quo bias

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  • pred-2026-05-06-360 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at the June 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no rate reduction, despite ongoing tariff-driven and Hormuz-linked inflationary pressure and emerging signs of demand weakness.

• fomc consensus norms

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  • pred-2026-04-19-251 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing a statement that acknowledges elevated tariff-driven inflation while citing heightened uncertainty as grounds for inaction.

• fomc-knowledge-problem

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  • pred-2026-03-26-111 The US Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE inflation (ex food and energy) at or above 2.7% year-over-year when released on March 28, 2026, materially complicating the FOMC's projected 2026 rate-cut path by causing a deferral of the anticipated June 2026 cut.

• footnote

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  • The Clean Ledger: Bilateral Grammar, the Footnote's Subordination, and the Specie That Restoration Cannot Redeem

• force majeure legal superstructure

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  • pred-2026-03-24-095 TTF natural gas front-month spot price will close above €75/MWh on at least 6 of the 15 trading sessions from March 25 to April 14, 2026, reflecting sustained price elevation from the combined QatarEnergy LNG force majeure and Hormuz disruption shock.

• force majeure spot market displacement

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  • pred-2026-03-21-059 TTF natural gas spot prices will average above €55/MWh across the April 1–28, 2026 window, driven by Qatar LNG facility strike and sustained Gulf conflict disruption to spot cargo flows into Europe.

• force-majeure

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  • pred-2026-03-19-043 European TTF natural gas spot price will close above €45/MWh on at least 3 of the 5 trading days from March 20–26, 2026, as markets price in the confirmed 17% reduction in Qatar LNG capacity following Iranian strikes.

• forecast

  1 essay · 1 prediction

  • Chart-Preservation: Parliamentary Adaptation on a Political Manifold
  • pred-2026-04-11-001 US initial weekly jobless claims for the week ending April 12, 2026 (reported Thursday April 17, 2026) will remain below 250,000 seasonally adjusted.

• forecast anchoring and path dependence

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  • pred-2026-03-29-153 The OBR's Spring Statement (March 31, 2026) will publish a UK 2026 GDP growth forecast strictly below 1.0%.

• forecaster coordination

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  • pred-2026-03-24-091 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast downward by at least 0.5 percentage points from its Autumn 2025 Statement projection in the Spring Statement 2026 fiscal event on March 26, 2026.

• foreclosure sequence

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  • pred-2026-04-07-173 Lebanon's post-ceasefire government will remain formally intact through June 2, 2026 — no formal coalition withdrawal, no declared parliamentary majority loss, no cabinet dissolution — despite continued Israeli airstrikes and deepening sectarian fissures

• form-shifting privatization

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  • pred-2026-03-29-149 HM Government will formally announce at least two material privatization initiatives — including NHS trust transfers, public utility stake disposals, public land sales, infrastructure fund transfers, or functionally equivalent arm's-length asset transfers denominated as fiscal consolidation measures — by 2026-12-31, even if not labeled 'privatization' in ministerial statements.

• formal vs. informal declination

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  • pred-2026-04-13-231 By April 26, 2026, at least 3 G7 members beyond the UK will issue formal, public governmental statements declining to participate in the US Hormuz blockade — most likely Germany, Japan, and France.

• forward guidance

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  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.

• forward guidance / animal spirits

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  • pred-2026-05-11-389 The UK King's Speech (delivered within 14 days of 2026-05-11) will include at least one of: (a) a housing supply or planning reform bill, (b) an AI or digital regulation framework bill, or (c) explicit defense spending legislation — confirming that Starmer's 'bolder action' rhetoric converts into a primary legislative program signal rather than remaining soft-instrument rhetoric

• forward guidance as canonization apparatus

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  • pred-2026-04-23-295 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no cut or hike in the post-meeting statement.

• forward guidance as path lock-in

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  • pred-2026-04-26-322 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following the April 29–30, 2026 FOMC meeting AND will not issue explicit forward guidance committing to a rate cut at the June 2026 meeting; the statement will use 'data dependent' and 'elevated uncertainty' language while deferring any June characterization.

• forward guidance equivalence

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  • pred-2026-03-18-035 OPEC+ will convene an unscheduled emergency ministerial meeting OR issue a formal communiqué announcing a production policy adjustment (increase, cut, or readiness pledge) in direct response to the Gulf energy disruption by April 30, 2026.

• forward guidance path dependence

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  • pred-2026-05-01-335 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing forward guidance consistent with continued data-dependency and no imminent directional move.

• fptp discontinuity: marginal vote-share → discontinuous control losses

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  • pred-2026-05-05-352 Labour will lose net control of 4 or more councils in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, AND Keir Starmer's government will issue a public reset or course-correction statement (press conference, policy announcement, or explicit reframing of government direction) within 72 hours of results being declared, by approximately May 11, 2026.

• fptp seat amplification

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  • pred-2026-04-24-301 The Liberal Party of Canada under Mark Carney will win enough seats on April 28, 2026 to form government (minority or majority), and Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party will fail to form government.

• fptp threshold cascade

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  • pred-2026-05-07-364 Labour will lose net control of at least 3 councils and at least 150 council seats in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, confirming a major Reform/Green pincer surge.

• fractional contradiction

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  • pred-2026-03-17-023 The United States will NOT execute or publicly authorize direct military strikes on Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026. Proxy-level operations, Iranian-controlled external asset targeting (IRGC positions in Syria/Iraq, Houthi infrastructure), and covert harassment will remain the dominant pressure mode. No White House or DoD public authorization of strikes framed as targeting Iran itself.

• fractured sovereignty

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  • pred-2026-04-20-259 The Lebanon-Israel direct talks on April 24, 2026 will end without a written joint communiqué, agreed withdrawal timeline, or formal security framework within 14 days (by May 4, 2026); the most probable outcome is a procedural statement affirming 'constructive dialogue' and scheduling a follow-on session, with no binding deliverable.

• framing

  1 essay · 1 prediction

  • The Compliance Conversion: Patriarchal Pidgin, the Auditor's Grammar, and the Court's Enforced Silence
  • pred-2026-03-25-001 Initial jobless claims for the week ending March 22, 2026 (reported Thursday March 27, 2026) will come in at or above 230,000 seasonally adjusted.

• framing path dependence

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  • pred-2026-03-15-003 At least one major G7 economy will announce new import tariffs or domestic industrial subsidies in Q2-Q3 2026 (April–September 2026) explicitly framed as 'protecting workers,' 'industrial fairness,' or equivalent labor-solidarity language, where independent distributional analysis confirms the primary economic beneficiary is an upstream extractive or capital-intensive monopoly sector rather than the downstream labor force named in the announcement.

• freedom-of-navigation operations (fonops)

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  • pred-2026-03-27-001 By April 7, 2026, at least one of the following will occur: (a) a formal GCC joint communiqué condemning or demanding reversal of Iran's Hormuz transit fees, (b) a CENTCOM freedom-of-navigation counter-announcement or declaration regarding the transit fee, or (c) Brent crude closing above $108/barrel on at least one trading day — with Brent crossing $108 as the primary resolution pathway (est. 70% standalone probability) and a CENTCOM declaration as the secondary (est. 55% standalone), and GCC communiqué as the least likely of the three (est. 28% standalone).

• fuel surcharge clauses

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  • pred-2026-05-06-362 The BLS April 2026 CPI release (expected May 13–14, 2026) will show headline CPI year-over-year at or above 3.5%, driven by Hormuz-disruption gasoline price transmission into the consumer basket.

• fundamental uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-04-06-161 De facto majority halt of commercial Bab al-Mandeb transits—defined as sustained traffic at ≤50% of pre-October 2023 baseline due to voluntary rerouting and insurance market withdrawal—will persist through May 18, 2026, without requiring a formal Houthi closure declaration.
  • pred-2026-04-13-229 Brent crude oil will close above $100/barrel on at least 4 of the 5 trading days from April 14–18, 2026, given the announced US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
  • pred-2026-04-22-283 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show negative real GDP growth (annualized rate below 0%), likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by a net exports collapse from pre-tariff import front-loading.

• fundamental uncertainty (keynesian)

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  • pred-2026-04-24-305 US-Iran nuclear and sanctions negotiations will NOT produce a publicly acknowledged written framework or agreement-in-principle document by May 31, 2026. Talks will continue in back-channel form; any visible output will be verbal acknowledgments of 'progress' rather than a signed or jointly circulated text.

• fundamental uncertainty / diplomatic liquidity preference

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  • pred-2026-04-11-209 The KMT opposition leader's April 2026 meeting with Xi Jinping will NOT produce a publicly announced formal cross-strait dialogue proposal, joint communiqué, or institutionalized communication channel by June 5, 2026.

• fundamental uncertainty / liquidity preference

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  • pred-2026-04-17-239 The UK government will NOT table formal primary legislation nor sign a provisional framework agreement adopting EU single market rules by 2026-05-30; the most likely outcome is a political declaration, joint working group, or scoping statement that falls short of binding regulatory commitments.

• fundamental uncertainty premium

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  • pred-2026-05-05-353 The Lula-Trump Washington meeting (week of May 5, 2026) will produce no formal bilateral trade instrument, explicit tariff-exemption commitment, or jointly signed framework document with operative trade language. The sole substantive output will be a ceremonial joint statement with non-binding aspirational language (e.g., 'exploring enhanced cooperation,' sector-level working groups) and no enforceable tariff provisions.

• fundamental uncertainty vs. calculable risk

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  • pred-2026-04-21-275 By June 16, 2026, international Gaza reconstruction pledges announced at any formal conference or donor coordination mechanism will nominally total at least $5B USD, but no operational disbursement mechanism will exist that has transferred capital to Gaza-based entities — leaving commitments as unfunded declarations without a functioning payment architecture.

• fundamental-uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-04-19-249 No formal IPC Phase 5 famine declaration will be issued for any part of Gaza before May 3, 2026; current 'imminent famine' and Phase 5 risk language will persist as a stable institutional intermediate register without upgrade to formal declaration.

• futures market inertia

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  • pred-2026-04-13-229 Brent crude oil will close above $100/barrel on at least 4 of the 5 trading days from April 14–18, 2026, given the announced US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

• gdp expenditure identity

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  • pred-2026-04-28-331 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show annualized real GDP growth below 1.0%, driven by a negative net-exports drag from tariff-anticipation import front-loading and suppressed gross private fixed investment from tariff-uncertainty-induced capital deferral.

• gdp identity mechanical distortion via net exports

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  • pred-2026-04-23-289 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP growth (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized real growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized.

• gdp national accounts: c + i + g + (x-m)

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  • pred-2026-04-26-319 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 GDP (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized quarter-over-quarter growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.5% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading statistical drag from tariff anticipation and compounded by capital investment deferral and fiscal contraction.

• gentrification contradiction

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  • pred-2026-03-21-055 The left-wing coalition (PS/Greens/NUPES-aligned) retains the Paris mayoralty in the 2026 municipal elections, with second-round results by March 30, 2026 confirming Hidalgo or a designated left successor as mayor with a margin of at least 3 percentage points over the leading right/centrist challenger.

• geographic rent

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  • pred-2026-04-10-193 By April 20, 2026, Iranian authorities (IRGC, Foreign Ministry, or Supreme Leader's office) will issue at least one of the following in direct response to Trump's Hormuz passage warning: a formal counter-statement or diplomatic note, a naval repositioning or exercise announcement, or a NOTAM issuance — with the Foreign Ministry verbal counter-statement being near-certain and an IRGC operational signal being likely.

• geopolitical rent

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  • pred-2026-05-06-362 The BLS April 2026 CPI release (expected May 13–14, 2026) will show headline CPI year-over-year at or above 3.5%, driven by Hormuz-disruption gasoline price transmission into the consumer basket.

• geopolitical rent extraction

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  • pred-2026-05-09-378 The United States will not issue formal sanctions, invoke Article 4 NATO consultation, or publicly demand arms control compliance from Turkey regarding its announced ICBM program by 2026-06-20. Washington will respond at most via private diplomatic channels, rhetorical 'serious concern' statements, and possibly bilateral dialogue framing — all falling short of institutionally formalized action.

• gig-layer hyperinflation

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  • pred-2026-04-07-165 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 5, 2026 (released April 10, 2026) will come in BELOW 230,000, remaining consistent with pre-tariff baseline and within the structural lag window before tariff-shock displacement becomes visible in formal claims data.

• gilt market price signal

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  • pred-2026-03-20-051 The UK Spring Statement on 26 March 2026 will announce a real-terms freeze or below-CPI uprating of Universal Credit and/or Housing Benefit, with savings explicitly or transparently linked (in the same fiscal event) to increased defence and/or infrastructure expenditure.

• governance architecture deficit

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  • pred-2026-04-22-287 No written framework, parameters document, or joint statement of principles on US-Iran nuclear de-escalation will be jointly announced by June 15, 2026; talks will remain in procedural or exploratory contact phase at best

• governance degradation

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  • pred-2026-03-23-079 The Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE price index at or above 2.8% year-over-year when data releases on or around March 28, 2026.

• governance fragmentation transaction costs

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  • pred-2026-05-06-359 Iranian government officials will NOT issue any formal statement or diplomatic action officially indicating openness to negotiation over Hormuz transit access before May 20, 2026 (within 14 days of the Project Freedom pause announcement)

• governance grammar

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  • pred-2026-04-11-211 Fidesz-KDNP retains parliamentary majority and government formation capacity in Hungary's April 2026 national vote; Péter Magyar's Tisza opposition achieves a polling-competitive performance but fails to translate vote proximity into a decisive seat majority — final governing-coalition seat share remains above 50%.
  • pred-2026-05-04-347 The United States will NOT formally announce or initiate a named naval convoy or escort operation through the Strait of Hormuz by May 17, 2026; Trump's pledge will remain in the informal-rhetorical register, operationalized at most as enhanced naval presence or informal accompaniment without institutional formalization
  • pred-2026-05-08-372 The United States will not conduct direct kinetic strikes on Iranian territory or Iranian military installations inside Iran by June 30, 2026; any kinetic response will remain outside Iranian borders — targeting Iranian naval vessels or oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, or Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria, or Yemen.
  • pred-2026-05-08-373 The April 2026 US CPI report (released approximately May 13, 2026) will show month-over-month headline inflation at or above 0.4%, driven by energy price transmission from the Hormuz disruption and sustained gas prices.
  • pred-2026-05-08-375 Keir Starmer will remain Labour Party leader on June 30, 2026, with no formal leadership confidence vote having been triggered at any point between May 8 and June 30, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-11-393 No formal no-confidence motion in Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader will be tabled by Labour MPs, and Starmer will not publicly announce his resignation as party leader, before July 6, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-20-403 The UK House of Commons passes the Loyal Address following the King's Speech without a successful no-confidence amendment, on or before 2026-06-03.
  • pred-2026-05-20-404 The Coalition will successfully force material amendments or procedural delay, preventing the 2026 Budget capital gains tax and negative gearing reform from passing in substantially its introduced form in the Australian Senate by 2026-06-03.

• governance grammar / diplomatic pidgin

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  • pred-2026-05-11-392 The United States and China will not publicly issue a joint statement, framework, or communiqué specifically addressing the Iran-Hormuz crisis before May 25, 2026; any diplomatic output from Trump-Xi Iran talks will take the form of separate unilateral readouts with convergent but not jointly authored language.

• governance grammar / naturalization (piracy framing as ideological preparation)

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  • pred-2026-04-23-291 By May 7, 2026, the US government will announce at least one of the following: (1) formal new OFAC/Treasury sanctions specifically naming IRGC naval units involved in the seizure, (2) deployment orders for an additional carrier strike group to the Arabian Sea or Gulf of Oman, or (3) a direct diplomatic channel opening resulting in the seized vessel's release — with Option 1 as the primary mechanism at ≥75% internal probability.

• governance grammar absorption

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  • pred-2026-05-12-396 The UK government will not table a revised welfare reform bill containing substantive conditionality or activity requirements before July 7, 2026.

• governance grammar naturalization

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  • pred-2026-04-21-273 The Starmer government will NOT experience a frontbench resignation or announce a by-election tied specifically to the Robbins/Mandelson vetting scandal within 14 days (by May 5, 2026); accountability pressure will be channeled into parliamentary scrutiny without producing institutional rupture.
  • pred-2026-04-22-279 None of the three formal challenge triggers materialize by May 6, 2026: no cabinet-level resignation directly linked to the Robbins/diplomatic-job revelations, no formal Labour leadership nomination letter signed by 20+ MPs, and no government defeat on a Commons confidence-adjacent motion.
  • pred-2026-04-23-295 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no cut or hike in the post-meeting statement.
  • pred-2026-04-27-328 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing no change to the target range.
  • pred-2026-05-02-337 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, maintaining the current target range with no cut and no hike, citing elevated supply-side inflation and 'heightened uncertainty' as grounds for continued data-dependence.
  • pred-2026-05-04-346 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, maintaining the current target range without adjustment of any magnitude.
  • pred-2026-05-04-350 The UK government will NOT issue a formal diplomatic protest, summon the Israeli ambassador, or announce a policy review specifically citing the treatment of British Gaza flotilla activists requiring hospital care — within 14 days (by 2026-05-18). The government will issue at most a ministerial statement of 'serious concern' and request consular information through normal channels.
  • pred-2026-05-06-359 Iranian government officials will NOT issue any formal statement or diplomatic action officially indicating openness to negotiation over Hormuz transit access before May 20, 2026 (within 14 days of the Project Freedom pause announcement)

• governance grammar: communiqué form as institutional pidgin — sufficient for coordination signal, constitutively insufficient for full legal integration

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  • pred-2026-05-04-351 The UK government will issue a communiqué, Treasury statement of intent, or signed agreement formally associating itself with co-financing the EU's €90bn Ukraine loan package by 2026-06-01. The commitment will most likely take the form of a communiqué or bilateral statement of intent rather than a fully integrated co-financing agreement — all four frameworks agree on outcome but converge on the softer instrument as the modal form.

• governance incompleteness

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  • pred-2026-03-21-063 The February 2026 US core PCE price index will print at or above 2.5% year-over-year when released on or around March 28, 2026, sustaining the Fed's pause posture and contradicting near-term market rate-cut pricing.

• governance pidgin

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  • pred-2026-04-07-167 No formal US government instrument — whether executive order, DoD directive, or binding interagency framework — explicitly delineating permitted versus prohibited uses of commercial AI systems in military and civilian government contexts will be issued by May 31, 2026; the Pentagon-Anthropic dispute will instead resolve through bilateral contract modification, informal DoD guidance, or non-binding working-group output that preserves administrative optionality.
  • pred-2026-04-09-191 By June 4, 2026, at least 3 US states (most likely from NY, CA, MA, IL, CO, or WA) will publicly announce or formally launch corporate securities enforcement actions or new regulatory frameworks explicitly framed in official communications — press releases, legislative testimony, or formal AG statements — as filling the enforcement vacuum created by the SEC chair's withdrawal from corporate policing.
  • pred-2026-05-13-400 The UK King's Speech, if delivered by 2026-05-27, will include at least one piece of primary legislation explicitly targeting NHS waiting-list reduction or housing supply as a named headline domestic bill — not merely a white paper, green paper, or regulatory commitment.

• governance theorem

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  • pred-2026-03-27-127 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast to below 1.5% in the Spring Statement (due 2026-03-31), down from approximately 2.0% in the Autumn Statement 2025, citing Hormuz-driven energy costs and trade uncertainty.
  • pred-2026-03-27-129 The BEA's February 2026 PCE release (~2026-03-28) will show core PCE year-over-year at or above 2.5%, AND at least one Federal Reserve official will issue a public statement within 48 hours of the release maintaining a data-dependent pause on rate cuts.

• governance vacuum

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  • pred-2026-03-28-141 No publicly announced meeting, de-escalation framework, or formal diplomatic signal between the US and Iran will emerge from Pakistan's mediation by April 11, 2026; back-channel activity will continue but remain below the public announcement threshold.

• governance vacuum trap

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  • pred-2026-05-07-369 By June 18, 2026, Israel will formally announce and initiate a large-scale ground military operation explicitly described by the Israeli military as decisive or final-phase, targeting remaining Hamas governance structures in Rafah or northern Gaza, operationally distinct from current targeted raids.

• governance-grammar

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  • pred-2026-05-03-344 The UK government will NOT formally declare an energy emergency or extend mandatory energy rationing beyond the existing airline cancellation order by 2026-05-17; energy management will proceed through escalating sector-specific administrative orders while preserving market governance architecture.
  • pred-2026-05-10-385 Keir Starmer will neither face a formal no-confidence motion from within the Parliamentary Labour Party (requiring ≥82 MP signatures) nor publicly announce his resignation before 2026-05-24.
  • pred-2026-05-11-390 No direct US-Iran naval exchange, vessel seizure by either party, or US military strike on Iranian assets will occur within the 6-week window ending 2026-06-22; the sub-threshold harassment equilibrium holds below the direct-exchange threshold.

• governance-theorem

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  • pred-2026-03-28-135 The OBR will revise its UK 2026 GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (March 30-31, 2026), specifically to a figure in the 0.7-0.99% range, signaling structural rather than cyclical deterioration.
  • pred-2026-03-28-139 The US March 2026 non-farm payrolls report (released April 3, 2026) will show job gains BELOW 150,000, while the unemployment rate holds at or below 4.2% — producing a split resolution where employment growth disappoints but the headline unemployment rate appears stable due to labor-supply contraction rather than demand recovery.

• grandfathering as embedded concession

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  • pred-2026-05-13-401 The Chalmers capital gains and negative gearing reform package will not pass the Australian Senate in its original form by May 27, 2026 — defined as: legislation either failing to reach a final Senate vote, being defeated outright, or passing only with material amendments (grandfathering of existing investment properties broadly extended, CGT discount reduction reduced by more than 10 percentage points from Chalmers' proposal, or implementation timeline delayed beyond 36 months from the bill's original schedule).

• grandfathering design

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  • pred-2026-05-12-397 The Australian Labor government's negative gearing and capital gains tax reform measures as announced in Budget 2026 will survive 14 days of parliamentary scrutiny through May 26, 2026, without the government publicly offering major concessions — defined as explicit scope reduction, new grandfathering provisions not present in the original budget announcement, or phase-in timeline extension — to crossbenchers or the opposition in response to parliamentary pressure.

• gray-zone profit structure

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  • pred-2026-04-08-181 The US-Iran ceasefire will hold through April 22, 2026, without either US or Iranian forces conducting offensive strikes against each other's assets or proxies at brigade scale or above; sub-threshold proxy incidents will occur but will not trigger principal-level escalation.

• great-power sunk-cost inertia

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  • pred-2026-04-25-315 The Lebanon ceasefire extended ~2026-04-21 will NOT collapse before its scheduled expiry (~2026-05-12) through a major Israeli ground operation launch or formal escalation declaration; instead it will reach expiry through incremental erosion, quiet non-renewal, or a brief additional extension.

• great-power-absorption

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  • pred-2026-05-03-343 A fourth formal round of Iran-US nuclear negotiations will NOT be publicly announced or formally scheduled by 2026-05-17, despite the US having formally responded to Iran's latest peace proposal.

• greedflation

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  • pred-2026-05-05-356 The BLS April 2026 CPI report (~May 13 release) will show headline YoY inflation at or above 3.5%, consistent with measurable tariff pass-through crossing that threshold in the April measurement window.

• gross-to-net-divergence

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  • pred-2026-03-27-121 The UK Spring Statement (delivered by 2026-03-31) will announce net reductions in working-age welfare benefit expenditure — framed as means-testing reforms, conditionality tightening, or efficiency measures — totalling at least £1 billion annually on OBR scoring.

• guarantor capacity

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  • pred-2026-03-28-141 No publicly announced meeting, de-escalation framework, or formal diplomatic signal between the US and Iran will emerge from Pakistan's mediation by April 11, 2026; back-channel activity will continue but remain below the public announcement threshold.

• guerrilla circulation logic

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  • pred-2026-04-10-195 At least one unannounced tariff measure — executive order imposing new duties, retaliatory product list expansion, or formal suspension of a trade exemption — will be publicly announced by either the US or China between April 10–24, 2026, without having been publicly pre-signaled before April 10.

• guerrilla-claimant

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  • pred-2026-03-27-121 The UK Spring Statement (delivered by 2026-03-31) will announce net reductions in working-age welfare benefit expenditure — framed as means-testing reforms, conditionality tightening, or efficiency measures — totalling at least £1 billion annually on OBR scoring.

• hayekian capital-structure disruption via energy price propagation

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  • pred-2026-03-19-045 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth projection below 1.5% in its Spring 2026 forecast published alongside the Spring Statement on or around March 26, 2026

• hayekian price signal efficiency

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  • pred-2026-05-11-391 Brent crude oil spot price will NOT breach $95 per barrel on any trading day close between May 12 and May 18, 2026, despite the confirmed Strait of Hormuz cargo ship attack at Day 71+ of escalation — a spike of $4–8 intraday is plausible but sustained closes above $95 are not.

• hedge

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  • The Piece-Form: Epistemic Hedging, Intuition Suppression, and the Anachronism of Fragment-Based Knowledge

• hedge-to-ponzi conversion

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  • pred-2026-03-29-149 HM Government will formally announce at least two material privatization initiatives — including NHS trust transfers, public utility stake disposals, public land sales, infrastructure fund transfers, or functionally equivalent arm's-length asset transfers denominated as fiscal consolidation measures — by 2026-12-31, even if not labeled 'privatization' in ministerial statements.

• hegemonic signaling

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  • pred-2026-03-29-147 The US Department of Defense (via CENTCOM) will publicly confirm at least one new offensive airstrike against Houthi military infrastructure in Yemen between 2026-03-29 and 2026-04-05, citing the Houthi opening of a new operational front.

• hegemony-forcing-event

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  • pred-2026-05-04-348 By June 15, 2026 (six weeks after Mélenchon's announcement), at least one of PS, PCF, or EELV will have issued a formal public statement — via party leadership, national bureau, or official spokesperson — either endorsing Mélenchon's candidacy or explicitly opposing it / demanding a negotiated primary process.

• heroic flexibility prerequisite as superstructural reframing condition

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  • pred-2026-04-11-205 Iran will not issue a formal public statement explicitly confirming participation in a second round of US-Iran diplomatic talks by April 25, 2026, instead maintaining strategic ambiguity through hedged ministerial language while backchannel engagement continues.

• heuristic state

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  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper

• hiring-margin suppression

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  • pred-2026-03-22-073 The OBR's Spring Statement 2026 forecast will project UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 at or below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Statement projection of approximately 1.6–1.7%.

• historic bloc (gramsci)

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  • pred-2026-04-24-301 The Liberal Party of Canada under Mark Carney will win enough seats on April 28, 2026 to form government (minority or majority), and Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party will fail to form government.

• hold-out equilibrium

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  • pred-2026-04-20-263 Iraq's ruling Shia bloc will fail to achieve both formal nomination AND parliamentary confirmation of a new prime minister by June 1, 2026, with the process remaining unresolved or stalled at the confirmation stage.

• hormuz aggregate demand anchor

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  • pred-2026-04-08-181 The US-Iran ceasefire will hold through April 22, 2026, without either US or Iranian forces conducting offensive strikes against each other's assets or proxies at brigade scale or above; sub-threshold proxy incidents will occur but will not trigger principal-level escalation.

• hormuz as common-pool resource

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  • pred-2026-04-10-193 By April 20, 2026, Iranian authorities (IRGC, Foreign Ministry, or Supreme Leader's office) will issue at least one of the following in direct response to Trump's Hormuz passage warning: a formal counter-statement or diplomatic note, a naval repositioning or exercise announcement, or a NOTAM issuance — with the Foreign Ministry verbal counter-statement being near-certain and an IRGC operational signal being likely.

• hormuz ceasefire energy relief

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  • pred-2026-04-08-183 US March 2026 headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released approximately April 10, 2026.

• hormuz chokepoint economics

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  • pred-2026-04-07-163 By April 14, 2026, the Pakistan-brokered US-Iran diplomatic channel will produce at least one publicly announced output — framework agreement, joint communiqué, ceasefire proposal, or confirmed follow-on talks — rather than a US military strike order or announced total diplomatic collapse with no scheduled continuation.

• hormuz chokepoint rent

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  • pred-2026-05-08-372 The United States will not conduct direct kinetic strikes on Iranian territory or Iranian military installations inside Iran by June 30, 2026; any kinetic response will remain outside Iranian borders — targeting Iranian naval vessels or oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, or Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria, or Yemen.

• hormuz closure energy transmission

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  • pred-2026-03-22-075 The BEA will report US February 2026 PCE price index year-over-year at or above 2.6% when released in the final week of March 2026.

• hormuz cpr governance failure

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  • pred-2026-03-23-089 No formal ceasefire agreement or publicly announced binding de-escalation framework between Iran and the United States will be announced by May 15, 2026, whether through Pakistan, Gulf-state, or direct mediation.

• hormuz disruption

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  • pred-2026-03-26-115 The February 2026 PCE price index (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.8% year-over-year.
  • pred-2026-03-29-145 The US ISM Manufacturing PMI for March 2026 will print below 48.0 upon release circa April 1, 2026, confirming manufacturing contraction consistent with compound tariff escalation and Hormuz-driven energy cost pass-through into manufacturing inputs.

• hormuz dual-track instability

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  • pred-2026-04-25-313 US and Iranian envoys will NOT jointly release a written framework document — communiqué, statement of principles, or agreed enrichment parameters — by 2026-05-09, the 14-day window following expected talk commencement around 2026-05-02. Talks will produce at most a procedural signal (agreement to continue, 'constructive atmosphere' language) without a jointly signed or jointly attributed text encoding substantive commitments.

• hormuz energy premium

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  • pred-2026-05-05-356 The BLS April 2026 CPI report (~May 13 release) will show headline YoY inflation at or above 3.5%, consistent with measurable tariff pass-through crossing that threshold in the April measurement window.

• hormuz energy price pass-through

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  • pred-2026-03-22-073 The OBR's Spring Statement 2026 forecast will project UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 at or below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Statement projection of approximately 1.6–1.7%.

• hormuz energy supply disruption

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  • pred-2026-05-06-360 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at the June 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no rate reduction, despite ongoing tariff-driven and Hormuz-linked inflationary pressure and emerging signs of demand weakness.

• hormuz governance vacuum

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  • pred-2026-04-17-235 Brent crude oil will exceed $110/bbl on at least one trading day between 2026-04-17 and 2026-04-27, given the active US naval blockade of Iranian ports and a $103/bbl baseline.

• hormuz threat vs. action value

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  • pred-2026-03-26-117 By 2026-04-09, Iran will formally announce at least one of: (a) Strait of Hormuz passage restrictions or mandatory transit fees, or (b) publicly acknowledged retaliatory strikes against Israeli or US military assets, explicitly linked to the killing of Iran's naval chief.

• hormuz toll gate

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  • pred-2026-03-27-127 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast to below 1.5% in the Spring Statement (due 2026-03-31), down from approximately 2.0% in the Autumn Statement 2025, citing Hormuz-driven energy costs and trade uncertainty.

• hostage negotiation suppressor

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  • pred-2026-05-07-369 By June 18, 2026, Israel will formally announce and initiate a large-scale ground military operation explicitly described by the Israeli military as decisive or final-phase, targeting remaining Hamas governance structures in Rafah or northern Gaza, operationally distinct from current targeted raids.

• humanitarian alibi collapse

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  • pred-2026-04-22-281 At least one of WFP, OCHA, or the IPC Famine Review Committee will formally declare IPC Phase 5 (famine) conditions in at least one zone of Gaza by June 17, 2026.

• humanitarian framing as ideological displacement

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  • pred-2026-03-28-143 Neither a binding UNSC humanitarian access resolution (or emergency framework) specifically for Lebanon nor a formal Lebanese government Chapter VII request will be adopted or lodged by May 15, 2026. The UNSC output will be limited to non-binding language, presidential statements, or renewed UNIFIL mandate discussions.

• hyperinflation

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  • The Subsistence Ratchet: Technocratic Chunking, Denomination Collapse, and the Capture of Bricolage

• iaea access as tradeable asset

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  • pred-2026-03-21-065 By 2026-05-01, Iran will NOT formally declare a nuclear-threshold posture (IAEA inspector suspension, 90%+ weapons-grade enrichment announcement, or NPT withdrawal) in response to the Natanz strike. Iran will instead pursue sub-threshold escalation through proxy operations, unannounced enrichment acceleration, and partial IAEA access restrictions while preserving strategic ambiguity as institutional leverage.

• iaea-credibility-premium

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  • pred-2026-05-03-343 A fourth formal round of Iran-US nuclear negotiations will NOT be publicly announced or formally scheduled by 2026-05-17, despite the US having formally responded to Iran's latest peace proposal.

• identifiable-pain mechanism

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  • pred-2026-05-07-364 Labour will lose net control of at least 3 councils and at least 150 council seats in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, confirming a major Reform/Green pincer surge.

• identity-threat

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  • The Anachronism Engine: How Permutation Operates on Memory to Convert Identity-Threat into Nostalgia

• ideological capture

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  • pred-2026-04-11-215 By June 6, 2026, at least one NATO member state will formally request renegotiation of US military base access terms or publicly announce an official government review of existing basing agreements, explicitly citing Atlantic realignment dynamics, reduced US credibility, or the Iran crisis as justification.

• ideological displacement (working-class anger → nationalist form)

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  • pred-2026-05-05-352 Labour will lose net control of 4 or more councils in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, AND Keir Starmer's government will issue a public reset or course-correction statement (press conference, policy announcement, or explicit reframing of government direction) within 72 hours of results being declared, by approximately May 11, 2026.

• ideological displacement function

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  • pred-2026-05-05-357 The US-China tariff standoff will persist without formal structural engagement through June 30, 2026 — no joint US-China statement on tariff negotiation, no ministerial-level or above bilateral negotiating session, and no publicly announced mutual tariff suspension on any product category will emerge before that date.

• ideological function of announcement

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  • pred-2026-03-17-021 No publicly announced operative agreement (ceasefire extension, hostage deal, or binding framework document with operational parameters) will emerge from the Cairo talks by March 28, 2026. Any public statement issued will be a procedural communiqué or vague progress declaration without binding commitments on ceasefire duration, hostage releases, or withdrawal timelines.

• ideological function of military orders

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  • pred-2026-04-23-297 A publicly confirmed kinetic naval engagement between US forces and Iranian vessels in or near the Strait of Hormuz will occur by May 7, 2026, following Trump's standing shoot order against mine-laying boats.

• ideological laundering

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  • pred-2026-05-10-387 The House Agriculture Committee will approve a reconciliation markup including SNAP spending reductions and/or new or expanded work requirements before 2026-06-30, with eligibility restrictions (categorical eligibility elimination, ABAWD expansion, or BBCE elimination) carrying the primary fiscal scoring weight alongside work requirement language.

• ideological legitimation

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  • pred-2026-04-09-191 By June 4, 2026, at least 3 US states (most likely from NY, CA, MA, IL, CO, or WA) will publicly announce or formally launch corporate securities enforcement actions or new regulatory frameworks explicitly framed in official communications — press releases, legislative testimony, or formal AG statements — as filling the enforcement vacuum created by the SEC chair's withdrawal from corporate policing.
  • pred-2026-05-11-389 The UK King's Speech (delivered within 14 days of 2026-05-11) will include at least one of: (a) a housing supply or planning reform bill, (b) an AI or digital regulation framework bill, or (c) explicit defense spending legislation — confirming that Starmer's 'bolder action' rhetoric converts into a primary legislative program signal rather than remaining soft-instrument rhetoric

• ideological reproduction

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  • pred-2026-05-07-367 Putin's May 9, 2026 Victory Day address and surrounding official communications through May 14 will contain neither (a) a substantive unilateral ceasefire proposal with concrete operational terms directed at Ukraine or NATO, nor (b) a formal military escalation announcement such as a new mobilization wave, a new annexation declaration of territory beyond currently claimed oblasts, or an explicit expansion of formal war aims. The address will maintain existing war-justification framing with rhetorical intensification but no structural departure in either direction. If ceasefire-adjacent language appears, it will be encoded as performative diplomacy with conditions calibrated to fail (e.g., NATO withdrawal or no-membership guarantees) rather than a genuine diplomatic initiative.

• ideological reproduction costs

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  • pred-2026-03-28-141 No publicly announced meeting, de-escalation framework, or formal diplomatic signal between the US and Iran will emerge from Pakistan's mediation by April 11, 2026; back-channel activity will continue but remain below the public announcement threshold.

• ideological reproduction function

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  • pred-2026-04-07-171 The US and Iran will NOT produce any written diplomatic framework, joint communiqué, or publicly announced schedule for direct negotiations by April 21, 2026 — at most a procedural readout noting talks occurred.

• ideological seigniorage

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  • pred-2026-04-21-275 By June 16, 2026, international Gaza reconstruction pledges announced at any formal conference or donor coordination mechanism will nominally total at least $5B USD, but no operational disbursement mechanism will exist that has transferred capital to Gaza-based entities — leaving commitments as unfunded declarations without a functioning payment architecture.

• ideological spectacle function

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  • pred-2026-05-12-395 The Trump-Xi summit will produce a publicly announced trade framework containing at least one of: (a) named tariff reduction percentages, (b) identified sector carve-outs, or (c) explicit numerical purchase or trade-flow targets — before May 26, 2026. Any such framework will be at most semi-binding, without operative enforcement architecture.

• ideological threshold crossing

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  • pred-2026-04-27-330 At least one G7 economy other than Canada will formally announce a new sovereign wealth fund or a qualifying expansion (>$10bn USD equivalent) of an existing public investment vehicle by 2026-06-22.

• ideological-cost

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  • pred-2026-05-03-344 The UK government will NOT formally declare an energy emergency or extend mandatory energy rationing beyond the existing airline cancellation order by 2026-05-17; energy management will proceed through escalating sector-specific administrative orders while preserving market governance architecture.

• ideological-displacement-of-class-resentment

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  • pred-2026-05-03-340 In the UK local elections on 7 May 2026, Labour will suffer a net loss of more than 150 council seats, and the visible internal party response will be framed as a communications or messaging failure rather than a structural reckoning with the government's economic direction.

• ideological-legitimacy-debt

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  • pred-2026-03-19-039 Between March 19 and April 2, 2026, Iranian state forces (IRGC or Iranian military, not proxies) will execute at least one direct ballistic missile or drone strike explicitly claimed by Iran against Israeli military installations or US military assets in the Middle East region, following the killing of intelligence chief Khatib and Ali Larijani.

• ideological-management-commodity

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  • pred-2026-05-03-343 A fourth formal round of Iran-US nuclear negotiations will NOT be publicly announced or formally scheduled by 2026-05-17, despite the US having formally responded to Iran's latest peace proposal.

• ideological-reproduction

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  • pred-2026-03-23-081 By April 6, 2026, at least one publicly confirmed instance of direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic communication will occur — through the Omani channel, a UN interlocutor, or an official statement from any party acknowledging that talks are underway — as opposed to continued public escalation or formal rejection of negotiations on all fronts.

• idiomatic blockade

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  • pred-2026-03-19-041 The Japanese government will publicly reject, formally challenge, or announce a counter-proposal to the reported ~$6bn SoftBank fee embedded in US bilateral trade deal terms by April 16, 2026 — most likely reframing the demand as an investment pledge or FDI commitment rather than issuing a clean structural rejection.

• iea collective action lag

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  • pred-2026-04-17-235 Brent crude oil will exceed $110/bbl on at least one trading day between 2026-04-17 and 2026-04-27, given the active US naval blockade of Iranian ports and a $103/bbl baseline.

• iea executive suspension authority

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  • pred-2026-05-05-353 The Lula-Trump Washington meeting (week of May 5, 2026) will produce no formal bilateral trade instrument, explicit tariff-exemption commitment, or jointly signed framework document with operative trade language. The sole substantive output will be a ceremonial joint statement with non-binding aspirational language (e.g., 'exploring enhanced cooperation,' sector-level working groups) and no enforceable tariff provisions.

• iea spr institutional dampener

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  • pred-2026-05-11-391 Brent crude oil spot price will NOT breach $95 per barrel on any trading day close between May 12 and May 18, 2026, despite the confirmed Strait of Hormuz cargo ship attack at Day 71+ of escalation — a spike of $4–8 intraday is plausible but sustained closes above $95 are not.

• ieepa emergency authority

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  • pred-2026-05-08-371 The Trump administration will obtain an emergency appellate stay of the Court of International Trade ruling invalidating the 10% global baseline tariffs within 14 days of that ruling (by May 21, 2026), keeping the tariffs operationally in force pending full appellate review.

• ieepa executive emergency power

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  • pred-2026-03-23-085 The April 2, 2026 'Liberation Day' reciprocal tariff announcement will include a universal baseline tariff of 10% or higher applied to all US imports regardless of country of origin.

• ieepa path dependence

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  • pred-2026-03-29-151 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include blanket tariffs of ≥10% on imports from at least one of EU, Japan, South Korea, or Mexico.

• ieepa statutory authority and scope

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  • pred-2026-05-09-380 The Trump administration will secure a judicial emergency stay (from the circuit court, SCOTUS, or both) reinstating the 10% global tariff regime by May 23, 2026 — within 14 days of the Court of International Trade ruling striking it down.

• ieepa statutory delegation

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  • pred-2026-05-09-376 A US federal appellate court (Federal Circuit) will grant an emergency administrative stay reinstating the 10% global baseline tariff within 14 days of the Trade Court ruling, by 2026-05-23, pending full merits briefing and panel review.

• ieepa-section-232-section-301-statutory-toolkit

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  • pred-2026-05-10-383 Within 14 days of the court ruling striking down 10% global tariffs (by 2026-05-24), the Trump administration will file an emergency stay application in federal court OR issue a new executive order reimposing substantially equivalent global tariff measures (≥8% on a broad category of imports).

• ihr 2005 escalation ladder

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  • pred-2026-05-06-363 The WHO will NOT issue a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) or equivalent formal international health alert (e.g., WHO Grade 3 Emergency with international spread finding) for the South African cruise-ship human-to-human hantavirus strain before June 17, 2026.

• imperial coalition fracture

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  • pred-2026-04-22-281 At least one of WFP, OCHA, or the IPC Famine Review Committee will formally declare IPC Phase 5 (famine) conditions in at least one zone of Gaza by June 17, 2026.

• imperial guarantor function

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  • pred-2026-05-04-349 The US Navy will successfully coordinate the transit of at least 3 additional commercially-operated vessels through the Strait of Hormuz under naval escort between 2026-05-04 and 2026-05-14, building on the reported 2-vessel precedent and Trump's public commitment to 'guide' stranded ships.

• imperial overextension

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  • pred-2026-04-11-215 By June 6, 2026, at least one NATO member state will formally request renegotiation of US military base access terms or publicly announce an official government review of existing basing agreements, explicitly citing Atlantic realignment dynamics, reduced US credibility, or the Iran crisis as justification.

• imperial rent contradiction

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  • pred-2026-04-10-201 Commercial tanker passage through the Strait of Hormuz will recover to at least 60% of pre-conflict baseline traffic volumes by April 24, 2026, following ceasefire diplomacy.

• import front-loading

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  • pred-2026-04-22-283 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show negative real GDP growth (annualized rate below 0%), likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by a net exports collapse from pre-tariff import front-loading.
  • pred-2026-04-24-307 The BEA advance estimate of Q1 2026 real GDP growth (released ~April 30, 2026) will show negative annualized growth — a technical contraction below 0% — driven primarily by a large negative net-exports contribution from pre-tariff import front-loading, compounded by suppressed fixed investment.
  • pred-2026-04-25-316 The BEA advance estimate released April 30, 2026 will show Q1 2026 real GDP growth as negative (below 0.0% annualized), with a point estimate in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading surge mechanically compressing the net-exports component and secondarily by consumer spending deceleration.
  • pred-2026-04-27-325 The BEA's advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP (scheduled for release ~April 30, 2026) will show a negative quarter-on-quarter annualized growth rate, i.e., real GDP contraction.
  • pred-2026-04-28-331 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show annualized real GDP growth below 1.0%, driven by a negative net-exports drag from tariff-anticipation import front-loading and suppressed gross private fixed investment from tariff-uncertainty-induced capital deferral.

• import front-loading / tariff anticipation effect

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  • pred-2026-04-26-319 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 GDP (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized quarter-over-quarter growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.5% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading statistical drag from tariff anticipation and compounded by capital investment deferral and fiscal contraction.

• imported inflation and commodity shock transmission

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  • pred-2026-03-19-045 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth projection below 1.5% in its Spring 2026 forecast published alongside the Spring Statement on or around March 26, 2026

• improvisation-deficit

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  • pred-2026-03-27-121 The UK Spring Statement (delivered by 2026-03-31) will announce net reductions in working-age welfare benefit expenditure — framed as means-testing reforms, conditionality tightening, or efficiency measures — totalling at least £1 billion annually on OBR scoring.

• incumbency accountability transfer

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  • pred-2026-04-26-320 In the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senedd, and English local elections, Labour's combined vote share in comparable contested areas falls more than 5 percentage points below its 2024 general election baseline, as measured by Electoral Commission and council/Senedd/Holyrood declared results by May 10, 2026.

• incumbency-penalty-as-structural-feature

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  • pred-2026-05-03-340 In the UK local elections on 7 May 2026, Labour will suffer a net loss of more than 150 council seats, and the visible internal party response will be framed as a communications or messaging failure rather than a structural reckoning with the government's economic direction.

• incumbent-cartel foreclosure

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  • pred-2026-03-25-107 The UK government's proposed ban on cryptocurrency political donations will pass second reading in the House of Commons by 15 May 2026.

• independence denomination

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  • pred-2026-04-26-322 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following the April 29–30, 2026 FOMC meeting AND will not issue explicit forward guidance committing to a rate cut at the June 2026 meeting; the statement will use 'data dependent' and 'elevated uncertainty' language while deferring any June characterization.

• independence norm as institutional property right

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  • pred-2026-04-27-328 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing no change to the target range.

• independence-maintenance under political encroachment

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  • pred-2026-05-06-360 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at the June 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no rate reduction, despite ongoing tariff-driven and Hormuz-linked inflationary pressure and emerging signs of demand weakness.

• independence-norm paradox

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  • pred-2026-04-28-332 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds target rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, with no dissents favoring a rate cut.

• independence-premium subjective devaluation

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  • pred-2026-04-25-317 The SNP will win fewer than 65 seats in the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament election, failing to secure an outright majority and producing a hung parliament requiring minority government or coalition/confidence-and-supply arrangements.

• independence-preservation reflex

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  • pred-2026-04-19-251 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing a statement that acknowledges elevated tariff-driven inflation while citing heightened uncertainty as grounds for inaction.

• independence-reproduction mechanism

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  • pred-2026-04-26-322 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following the April 29–30, 2026 FOMC meeting AND will not issue explicit forward guidance committing to a rate cut at the June 2026 meeting; the statement will use 'data dependent' and 'elevated uncertainty' language while deferring any June characterization.

• independence-signaling perverse incentive

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  • pred-2026-05-03-341 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting AND issue a statement with hawkish or hold-biased forward guidance that explicitly declines to signal rate cuts in H1 2026, citing elevated inflation uncertainty from tariff pass-through and energy price pressure.

• indicator

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  • The Indicator-Occupation: Surveillance Monopoly, Descriptive Saturation, and the Silence of the Completely Seen

• indicator-decoupling

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  • pred-2026-03-28-139 The US March 2026 non-farm payrolls report (released April 3, 2026) will show job gains BELOW 150,000, while the unemployment rate holds at or below 4.2% — producing a split resolution where employment growth disappoints but the headline unemployment rate appears stable due to labor-supply contraction rather than demand recovery.

• inequality

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  • The Theocratic Conversion Rate: Wordplay, Euphoric Discharge, and the Status-Anxiety Currency Problem
  • Policy Brief: Redirecting Pro-Natalist Spending Toward Class-Reproduction Cost Reduction
  • pred-2026-04-11-001 US initial weekly jobless claims for the week ending April 12, 2026 (reported Thursday April 17, 2026) will remain below 250,000 seasonally adjusted.

• inflation expectations anchoring

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  • pred-2026-05-07-368 The US April 2026 CPI report (released approximately May 13-14) will show year-over-year headline inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating meaningful tariff-driven pass-through to consumer goods prices.

• inflation measurement methodology

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  • pred-2026-03-23-079 The Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE price index at or above 2.8% year-over-year when data releases on or around March 28, 2026.

• inflationary expectations

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  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.

• informal contractual escalation

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  • pred-2026-04-25-318 The Malian transitional government will NOT formally declare a national state of emergency AND will NOT publicly request emergency military reinforcement from any external partner (Russia/Africa Corps successor, neighboring state, or the African Union) within 60 days of the late-April 2026 coordinated attacks.

• informal equilibrium adaptation

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  • pred-2026-03-29-155 No publicly announced interim agreement, confidence-building measure, or joint statement will emerge from the Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic track by April 30, 2026. Back-channel activity will continue, but the threshold of public announcement will not be crossed.

• informal-extraction

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  • pred-2026-03-28-137 Iran will NOT publicly announce an explicit fee structure, passage permit regime, or formal transit agreement for Strait of Hormuz commercial shipping by May 15, 2026; informal selective extraction, ad hoc escort demands, and insurance-market pressure will continue as the dominant extraction mode with no legible institutionalization.

• information asymmetry preservation

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  • pred-2026-03-26-117 By 2026-04-09, Iran will formally announce at least one of: (a) Strait of Hormuz passage restrictions or mandatory transit fees, or (b) publicly acknowledged retaliatory strikes against Israeli or US military assets, explicitly linked to the killing of Iran's naval chief.

• information cascade

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  • pred-2026-04-10-201 Commercial tanker passage through the Strait of Hormuz will recover to at least 60% of pre-conflict baseline traffic volumes by April 24, 2026, following ceasefire diplomacy.
  • pred-2026-04-21-273 The Starmer government will NOT experience a frontbench resignation or announce a by-election tied specifically to the Robbins/Mandelson vetting scandal within 14 days (by May 5, 2026); accountability pressure will be channeled into parliamentary scrutiny without producing institutional rupture.

• information rent

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  • pred-2026-04-12-221 The Orthodox Easter ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine will hold at the formal threshold through April 20, 2026 — neither side will formally announce a breakdown NOR execute verified large-scale coordinated offensive operations — while tactical violations continue below the threshold of acknowledged defection.
  • pred-2026-04-18-245 By May 31, 2026, no major GCC sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA/Mubadala/ADQ, Kuwait Investment Authority, or Qatar Investment Authority) will formally announce a strategic reduction in US dollar-denominated holdings or a new non-dollar allocation explicitly framed as a geopolitically-motivated portfolio rebalancing.

• information rent destruction

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  • pred-2026-04-12-227 By June 7, 2026, at least one major GCC sovereign wealth fund (ADIA, PIF, QIA, or KIA) will publicly announce a formal reallocation strategy reducing US-denominated asset exposure by 10%+ or establishing a new European/Swiss-domiciled investment vehicle, explicitly citing Iran-war geopolitical risk or Hormuz corridor uncertainty as justification.

• information-commons enclosure

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  • pred-2026-04-12-223 The Hungarian opposition coalition led by TISZA will fail to deny Fidesz its parliamentary supermajority (≥133 seats) in the April 2026 elections — Fidesz will retain constitutional amendment capacity.

• injection-season inflection

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  • pred-2026-03-21-059 TTF natural gas spot prices will average above €55/MWh across the April 1–28, 2026 window, driven by Qatar LNG facility strike and sustained Gulf conflict disruption to spot cargo flows into Europe.

• inspector-general documentation mandate

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  • pred-2026-05-20-405 By 2026-07-15, at least two US regulatory agencies currently experiencing confirmed leadership vacancies (including FDA following the head's resignation confirmed in May 2026) will have publicly missed a statutory deadline OR received a court ruling or published Inspector General report formally attributing documented operational failure to the vacancy cascade — with evidentiary basis in agency records, court dockets, or published IG reports.

• instant

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  • pred-2026-05-09-001 The Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI report for April 2026 (all items, seasonally adjusted) will show a positive month-over-month change — i.e., the index will be higher than the March 2026 reading.

• institutional absorption capacity

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  • pred-2026-05-07-368 The US April 2026 CPI report (released approximately May 13-14) will show year-over-year headline inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating meaningful tariff-driven pass-through to consumer goods prices.

• institutional adaptation lag

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  • pred-2026-03-29-145 The US ISM Manufacturing PMI for March 2026 will print below 48.0 upon release circa April 1, 2026, confirming manufacturing contraction consistent with compound tariff escalation and Hormuz-driven energy cost pass-through into manufacturing inputs.

• institutional adversarial prior

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  • pred-2026-04-08-181 The US-Iran ceasefire will hold through April 22, 2026, without either US or Iranian forces conducting offensive strikes against each other's assets or proxies at brigade scale or above; sub-threshold proxy incidents will occur but will not trigger principal-level escalation.

• institutional amnesia

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  • pred-2026-04-20-261 By May 4, 2026, the US tariff refund system will face publicly documented administrative backlog, processing freeze, or formal capacity warning — sourced from CBP, USTR, a major trade publication (Journal of Commerce, Inside US Trade, Bloomberg), or a major trade association (NAM, NRF, or equivalent) — attributable to simultaneous mass filing pressure from thousands of importers at launch.

• institutional architecture modification under base pressure

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  • pred-2026-03-22-077 By May 15, 2026, the EU will formally approve a Ukraine financial support package of €35bn or more — either through Hungarian consent obtained via bilateral side-payment (cohesion fund releases or rule-of-law concessions) or through a mechanism that structurally reduces Hungary's formal veto surface (ERA instrument backed by frozen Russian asset revenues, enhanced cooperation, or G7 extraordinary-revenue vehicle).

• institutional brake

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  • pred-2026-03-17-023 The United States will NOT execute or publicly authorize direct military strikes on Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026. Proxy-level operations, Iranian-controlled external asset targeting (IRGC positions in Syria/Iraq, Houthi infrastructure), and covert harassment will remain the dominant pressure mode. No White House or DoD public authorization of strikes framed as targeting Iran itself.

• institutional bricolage

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  • pred-2026-04-21-271 US-Iran nuclear negotiations will not produce a formal framework agreement or substantive joint statement with specific parameters before April 30, 2026; the most likely outcome is either a minimal procedural signal (announced next-round schedule or anodyne communiqué) or quiet continuation without formal public output — not a genuine breakthrough and not outright collapse.

• institutional capacity

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  • pred-2026-04-09-191 By June 4, 2026, at least 3 US states (most likely from NY, CA, MA, IL, CO, or WA) will publicly announce or formally launch corporate securities enforcement actions or new regulatory frameworks explicitly framed in official communications — press releases, legislative testimony, or formal AG statements — as filling the enforcement vacuum created by the SEC chair's withdrawal from corporate policing.

• institutional coalition-building

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  • pred-2026-03-25-101 Pakistan-mediated US-Iran contacts will NOT produce a publicly announced bilateral meeting, formal ceasefire talks, or nuclear negotiation framework by April 30, 2026

• institutional contract-expiry cycle

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  • pred-2026-04-08-177 The March 2026 US headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released during the week of April 7–11, 2026, driven by tariff pass-through in goods categories and embedded energy cost from the pre-ceasefire Iran-Hormuz disruption.

• institutional credibility as common-pool resource

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  • pred-2026-03-19-037 The FOMC's March 2026 SEP (released March 19) will show the median federal funds rate projection for end-2026 at 3.75–4.00% or higher (implying ≤2 cuts from 4.25–4.50%), AND the median 2026 PCE inflation projection will be revised upward from the December 2025 baseline of 2.5%.
  • pred-2026-04-27-328 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing no change to the target range.

• institutional credibility capital

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  • pred-2026-04-23-295 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no cut or hike in the post-meeting statement.
  • pred-2026-05-03-341 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting AND issue a statement with hawkish or hold-biased forward guidance that explicitly declines to signal rate cuts in H1 2026, citing elevated inflation uncertainty from tariff pass-through and energy price pressure.

• institutional credibility commons

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  • pred-2026-04-24-303 The FOMC will vote to hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, with no dissents favoring an immediate cut or hike.

• institutional credibility gap

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  • pred-2026-05-08-374 The US-China trade talks currently underway will produce at least one publicly announced output — a framework agreement, a tariff reduction commitment, or a formal negotiating roadmap — by May 22, 2026.

• institutional credibility preservation

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  • pred-2026-05-05-355 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, AND the post-meeting statement and Powell press conference will not signal that a rate cut is imminent (i.e., will not pre-commit to or strongly imply a June 2026 cut, defined as no shift to >70% market-implied probability of June cut immediately post-conference).

• institutional credibility-as-capital

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  • pred-2026-03-18-031 Iran or an Iran-directed proxy will execute a publicly confirmed kinetic attack on Gulf Arab energy infrastructure (oil/gas facilities, pipelines, export terminals, or refinery complexes) by April 1, 2026.

• institutional deliberation cycle

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  • pred-2026-03-26-117 By 2026-04-09, Iran will formally announce at least one of: (a) Strait of Hormuz passage restrictions or mandatory transit fees, or (b) publicly acknowledged retaliatory strikes against Israeli or US military assets, explicitly linked to the killing of Iran's naval chief.

• institutional enforcement gap

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  • pred-2026-05-12-395 The Trump-Xi summit will produce a publicly announced trade framework containing at least one of: (a) named tariff reduction percentages, (b) identified sector carve-outs, or (c) explicit numerical purchase or trade-flow targets — before May 26, 2026. Any such framework will be at most semi-binding, without operative enforcement architecture.

• institutional equilibrium / structured ambiguity

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  • pred-2026-04-17-239 The UK government will NOT table formal primary legislation nor sign a provisional framework agreement adopting EU single market rules by 2026-05-30; the most likely outcome is a political declaration, joint working group, or scoping statement that falls short of binding regulatory commitments.

• institutional grammar

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  • pred-2026-03-18-025 The March 2026 FOMC Summary of Economic Projections will show the median 2026 rate-cut projection at 2 or fewer cuts (a downward revision from December's 3-cut median); Powell will use energy-supply-uncertainty language that gestures at Hormuz without explicit naming. The OR compound resolves TRUE primarily through the dot-plot pathway, with explicit Hormuz citation being the uncertain secondary condition.
  • pred-2026-03-19-041 The Japanese government will publicly reject, formally challenge, or announce a counter-proposal to the reported ~$6bn SoftBank fee embedded in US bilateral trade deal terms by April 16, 2026 — most likely reframing the demand as an investment pledge or FDI commitment rather than issuing a clean structural rejection.
  • pred-2026-05-07-367 Putin's May 9, 2026 Victory Day address and surrounding official communications through May 14 will contain neither (a) a substantive unilateral ceasefire proposal with concrete operational terms directed at Ukraine or NATO, nor (b) a formal military escalation announcement such as a new mobilization wave, a new annexation declaration of territory beyond currently claimed oblasts, or an explicit expansion of formal war aims. The address will maintain existing war-justification framing with rhetorical intensification but no structural departure in either direction. If ceasefire-adjacent language appears, it will be encoded as performative diplomacy with conditions calibrated to fail (e.g., NATO withdrawal or no-membership guarantees) rather than a genuine diplomatic initiative.

• institutional grammar gap

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  • pred-2026-05-09-378 The United States will not issue formal sanctions, invoke Article 4 NATO consultation, or publicly demand arms control compliance from Turkey regarding its announced ICBM program by 2026-06-20. Washington will respond at most via private diplomatic channels, rhetorical 'serious concern' statements, and possibly bilateral dialogue framing — all falling short of institutionally formalized action.

• institutional inertia

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  • pred-2026-04-19-251 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing a statement that acknowledges elevated tariff-driven inflation while citing heightened uncertainty as grounds for inaction.
  • pred-2026-05-06-358 Brent crude oil futures will NOT decline by more than 4% within 7 days of Trump's Project Freedom pause announcement (by May 13, 2026); expected drawdown is 1–3% before stabilization or partial reversal.
  • pred-2026-05-08-372 The United States will not conduct direct kinetic strikes on Iranian territory or Iranian military installations inside Iran by June 30, 2026; any kinetic response will remain outside Iranian borders — targeting Iranian naval vessels or oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, or Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria, or Yemen.

• institutional lag

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  • pred-2026-04-09-187 March 2026 US CPI (all items, year-over-year) prints at or above 3.0% when released approximately April 10–11, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-17-237 Hungary's post-Orbán government will NOT produce a formal public commitment to EU rule-of-law reforms sufficient for the European Commission to announce a disbursement schedule for the frozen €35bn within 14 days of 2026-04-17 (by 2026-05-01). The Hungarian government will likely signal commitment within this window; the Commission disbursement schedule announcement will not follow within it.
  • pred-2026-04-26-323 The BLS April 2026 non-farm payrolls report (releasing approximately May 2, 2026) will show total payroll job creation below 100,000, reflecting a tariff-driven investment freeze and hiring slowdown.

• institutional layering norm

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  • pred-2026-04-12-227 By June 7, 2026, at least one major GCC sovereign wealth fund (ADIA, PIF, QIA, or KIA) will publicly announce a formal reallocation strategy reducing US-denominated asset exposure by 10%+ or establishing a new European/Swiss-domiciled investment vehicle, explicitly citing Iran-war geopolitical risk or Hormuz corridor uncertainty as justification.

• institutional liquidity preference

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  • pred-2026-04-22-281 At least one of WFP, OCHA, or the IPC Famine Review Committee will formally declare IPC Phase 5 (famine) conditions in at least one zone of Gaza by June 17, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-06-363 The WHO will NOT issue a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) or equivalent formal international health alert (e.g., WHO Grade 3 Emergency with international spread finding) for the South African cruise-ship human-to-human hantavirus strain before June 17, 2026.

• institutional lock-in

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  • pred-2026-03-21-055 The left-wing coalition (PS/Greens/NUPES-aligned) retains the Paris mayoralty in the 2026 municipal elections, with second-round results by March 30, 2026 confirming Hidalgo or a designated left successor as mayor with a margin of at least 3 percentage points over the leading right/centrist challenger.
  • pred-2026-05-12-397 The Australian Labor government's negative gearing and capital gains tax reform measures as announced in Budget 2026 will survive 14 days of parliamentary scrutiny through May 26, 2026, without the government publicly offering major concessions — defined as explicit scope reduction, new grandfathering provisions not present in the original budget announcement, or phase-in timeline extension — to crossbenchers or the opposition in response to parliamentary pressure.

• institutional lock-in reversal

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  • pred-2026-05-08-370 Labour will fail to retain the largest-party position in the Welsh Senedd following the May 2026 elections, ending its uninterrupted plurality since 1999; Plaid Cymru will emerge as the party with the most seats.

• institutional lock-in via veto structure

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  • pred-2026-04-08-185 Lebanon will experience at least one of: (a) formal government collapse with failure to form a replacement within 30 days, (b) resumption of large-scale armed conflict involving at least one non-state actor and Lebanese state forces with >50 combat deaths in a single week, or (c) internationally recognized de facto territorial partition acknowledged by 3+ UN Security Council members — by October 8, 2026.

• institutional measurement lag

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  • pred-2026-05-01-334 The April 2026 US nonfarm payrolls report (released May 2, 2026) will show net job creation above 150,000, with the headline number in the 160,000–195,000 range, sustained by BLS birth-death model contributions, post-pandemic labor-hoarding norms, and service-sector insulation from goods-sector tariff disruption — despite real underlying deterioration in job quality and a demand-side headwind from tariff-induced income compression and Iran war fiscal lag

• institutional memory (2019 shorten loss, 1987 hawke reinstatement)

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  • pred-2026-05-13-401 The Chalmers capital gains and negative gearing reform package will not pass the Australian Senate in its original form by May 27, 2026 — defined as: legislation either failing to reach a final Senate vote, being defeated outright, or passing only with material amendments (grandfathering of existing investment properties broadly extended, CGT discount reduction reduced by more than 10 percentage points from Chalmers' proposal, or implementation timeline delayed beyond 36 months from the bill's original schedule).

• institutional memory and path dependence (truss 2022 as threshold-calibrating precedent)

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  • pred-2026-05-13-402 UK 10-year gilt yields will breach 5.5% at least once during the period May 13 – July 8, 2026, as compound political-fiscal stress from the Starmer ministerial crisis reinforces the pre-existing 27-year high borrowing cost trajectory.

• institutional path dependence

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  • pred-2026-03-21-061 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (expected March 26, 2026), down from the October 2025 forecast of approximately 1.6%.
  • pred-2026-03-21-065 By 2026-05-01, Iran will NOT formally declare a nuclear-threshold posture (IAEA inspector suspension, 90%+ weapons-grade enrichment announcement, or NPT withdrawal) in response to the Natanz strike. Iran will instead pursue sub-threshold escalation through proxy operations, unannounced enrichment acceleration, and partial IAEA access restrictions while preserving strategic ambiguity as institutional leverage.
  • pred-2026-03-25-099 The US February 2026 core PCE price index (year-over-year) will print at or above 2.6% when released on March 28, 2026
  • pred-2026-03-29-155 No publicly announced interim agreement, confidence-building measure, or joint statement will emerge from the Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic track by April 30, 2026. Back-channel activity will continue, but the threshold of public announcement will not be crossed.
  • pred-2026-04-06-159 Israel will publicly and explicitly acknowledge conducting at least one direct kinetic military strike on Iranian sovereign territory before April 20, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-10-193 By April 20, 2026, Iranian authorities (IRGC, Foreign Ministry, or Supreme Leader's office) will issue at least one of the following in direct response to Trump's Hormuz passage warning: a formal counter-statement or diplomatic note, a naval repositioning or exercise announcement, or a NOTAM issuance — with the Foreign Ministry verbal counter-statement being near-certain and an IRGC operational signal being likely.
  • pred-2026-04-13-229 Brent crude oil will close above $100/barrel on at least 4 of the 5 trading days from April 14–18, 2026, given the announced US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
  • pred-2026-04-19-253 The US-Pakistan-Iran diplomatic track will NOT produce a publicly announced tangible output — no joint communiqué, agreed framework, or confirmed next round of direct/indirect talks — by May 3, 2026; the ceiling outcome is an informal 'constructive discussions' readout below the threshold of tangible diplomatic product.
  • pred-2026-04-19-257 By June 14, 2026 (within 8 weeks of the Australia-Japan $7bn warships deal signed April 2026), at least one formal multilateral security announcement — an AUKUS addendum, QUAD joint statement, or trilateral Australia-Japan-US operational agreement — will be publicly issued that explicitly cites China, North Korea, or Indo-Pacific deterrence as the security rationale.
  • pred-2026-04-21-265 Reform UK will finish in second place ahead of the Conservative Party in the Birmingham by-election, while Labour retains the seat with a majority below 5,000 votes
  • pred-2026-04-21-267 By May 5, 2026, neither the US nor Iran will publicly acknowledge the reported Islamabad back-channel talks through any jointly recognized framework, agreed formal agenda, or confirmed next-round meeting date; the public-denial/back-channel split will persist without official acknowledgment from either Tehran or Washington.
  • pred-2026-04-25-318 The Malian transitional government will NOT formally declare a national state of emergency AND will NOT publicly request emergency military reinforcement from any external partner (Russia/Africa Corps successor, neighboring state, or the African Union) within 60 days of the late-April 2026 coordinated attacks.
  • pred-2026-04-26-322 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following the April 29–30, 2026 FOMC meeting AND will not issue explicit forward guidance committing to a rate cut at the June 2026 meeting; the statement will use 'data dependent' and 'elevated uncertainty' language while deferring any June characterization.
  • pred-2026-04-27-330 At least one G7 economy other than Canada will formally announce a new sovereign wealth fund or a qualifying expansion (>$10bn USD equivalent) of an existing public investment vehicle by 2026-06-22.
  • pred-2026-05-12-398 The UK government will NOT announce a formal emergency fiscal consolidation measure (unscheduled spending review, emergency budget statement, or explicit new multi-billion-pound spending cut commitment) by May 26, 2026; the government will instead deploy Chancellor statements reaffirming existing fiscal rules, coordinated Treasury-OBR messaging, and verbal commitments without concrete new cuts.

• institutional path lock-in

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  • pred-2026-05-05-354 By June 30, 2026, Germany will formally announce a multi-year defense spending pathway that explicitly meets or exceeds the NATO 2% GDP floor AND cites the Bundestag-approved Schuldenbremse exemption (or a supplementary fiscal act) as its legal-fiscal basis — rather than leaving the commitment as a vague political pledge or a government-only white paper without legislative backing.

• institutional path-dependency

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  • pred-2026-04-27-325 The BEA's advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP (scheduled for release ~April 30, 2026) will show a negative quarter-on-quarter annualized growth rate, i.e., real GDP contraction.
  • pred-2026-05-20-404 The Coalition will successfully force material amendments or procedural delay, preventing the 2026 Budget capital gains tax and negative gearing reform from passing in substantially its introduced form in the Australian Senate by 2026-06-03.

• institutional price stickiness

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  • pred-2026-04-06-157 The Bureau of Labor Statistics' March 2026 CPI report (expected release ~April 10, 2026) will show headline inflation at or above 3.5% year-over-year.

• institutional property rights

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  • pred-2026-05-11-392 The United States and China will not publicly issue a joint statement, framework, or communiqué specifically addressing the Iran-Hormuz crisis before May 25, 2026; any diplomatic output from Trump-Xi Iran talks will take the form of separate unilateral readouts with convergent but not jointly authored language.

• institutional protocol grammar

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  • pred-2026-05-10-386 A subsequent round of US-Iran indirect nuclear or Hormuz-related talks will be publicly confirmed or announced before 2026-05-24, following Iran's published response to the latest US framework proposal.

• institutional self-binding and switching costs

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  • pred-2026-05-10-384 No direct Putin-Zelensky bilateral meeting will take place, nor will confirmed dates for such a meeting be publicly announced by both parties, by 2026-06-21

• institutional self-preservation

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  • pred-2026-04-19-257 By June 14, 2026 (within 8 weeks of the Australia-Japan $7bn warships deal signed April 2026), at least one formal multilateral security announcement — an AUKUS addendum, QUAD joint statement, or trilateral Australia-Japan-US operational agreement — will be publicly issued that explicitly cites China, North Korea, or Indo-Pacific deterrence as the security rationale.

• institutional stickiness

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  • pred-2026-03-22-067 The BEA's February 2026 core PCE price index release (~March 28, 2026) will show core PCE inflation at or above 2.8% year-over-year.
  • pred-2026-04-11-215 By June 6, 2026, at least one NATO member state will formally request renegotiation of US military base access terms or publicly announce an official government review of existing basing agreements, explicitly citing Atlantic realignment dynamics, reduced US credibility, or the Iran crisis as justification.

• institutional switching costs

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  • pred-2026-03-22-069 Iran will NOT formally suspend IAEA inspector access nor announce NPT withdrawal within 14 days of the Natanz strike — i.e., no formal suspension order or NPT withdrawal notice will be issued by 2026-04-05. Iran will instead escalate within the framework: accelerated enrichment, reduced inspector access, expulsion of specific personnel, and declaratory threats, while preserving formal treaty membership.

• institutional transaction costs

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  • pred-2026-03-27-131 At least one of BYD, NIO, Li Auto, or XPENG will publicly announce production cuts, factory suspensions, or workforce reductions by 2026-05-08 (6 weeks from 2026-03-27), as domestic margin compression from the ongoing price war renders expansion uneconomical.

• institutional transmission channels

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  • pred-2026-05-06-362 The BLS April 2026 CPI release (expected May 13–14, 2026) will show headline CPI year-over-year at or above 3.5%, driven by Hormuz-disruption gasoline price transmission into the consumer basket.

• institutional transmission lag

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  • pred-2026-03-22-075 The BEA will report US February 2026 PCE price index year-over-year at or above 2.6% when released in the final week of March 2026.

• institutional void as firewall

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  • pred-2026-04-09-189 By April 22, 2026, neither the United States nor Iran will publicly announce withdrawal, suspension, or termination of the ceasefire framework — the formal diplomatic shell will remain intact despite ongoing sub-formal violations in Lebanon and continued unresolved terms in the 10-point plan.

• institutional wage indexation

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  • pred-2026-05-05-356 The BLS April 2026 CPI report (~May 13 release) will show headline YoY inflation at or above 3.5%, consistent with measurable tariff pass-through crossing that threshold in the April measurement window.

• institutional-dampener

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  • pred-2026-03-18-027 The Eurozone composite flash PMI for March 2026 will print below 49.0, signaling economic contraction, with the manufacturing sub-index leading at 46–47 and services dragging the composite to approximately 48.2–48.8.

• institutional-legitimacy

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  • pred-2026-03-23-083 The Supreme Court of Canada will neither issue a substantive ruling striking down nor grant leave to appeal in a manner that substantially limits Quebec's Bill 21 (Act Respecting the Laicity of the State) before May 18, 2026.

• institutional-path-dependence

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  • pred-2026-03-28-135 The OBR will revise its UK 2026 GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (March 30-31, 2026), specifically to a figure in the 0.7-0.99% range, signaling structural rather than cyclical deterioration.
  • pred-2026-05-03-343 A fourth formal round of Iran-US nuclear negotiations will NOT be publicly announced or formally scheduled by 2026-05-17, despite the US having formally responded to Iran's latest peace proposal.

• institutional-reckoning-barrier

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  • pred-2026-05-03-340 In the UK local elections on 7 May 2026, Labour will suffer a net loss of more than 150 council seats, and the visible internal party response will be framed as a communications or messaging failure rather than a structural reckoning with the government's economic direction.

• institutional-response-lag

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  • pred-2026-03-19-043 European TTF natural gas spot price will close above €45/MWh on at least 3 of the 5 trading days from March 20–26, 2026, as markets price in the confirmed 17% reduction in Qatar LNG capacity following Iranian strikes.

• institutional-rhythm

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  • pred-2026-03-17-019 The Bank of England MPC will hold the Bank Rate at 4.5% at its March 19-20 meeting, with a vote split of at least 7-2 (hold-cut), meaning 2 or more members dissent in favor of a 25bp cut.

• institutional-rules-change

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  • pred-2026-03-28-139 The US March 2026 non-farm payrolls report (released April 3, 2026) will show job gains BELOW 150,000, while the unemployment rate holds at or below 4.2% — producing a split resolution where employment growth disappoints but the headline unemployment rate appears stable due to labor-supply contraction rather than demand recovery.

• institutional-transaction-costs

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  • pred-2026-03-24-093 By April 7, 2026, no formal public confirmation of direct or Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic talks will be issued by official representatives of any of the three governments.
  • pred-2026-04-11-207 The UK government will NOT publicly announce or formally confirm a specific named military deployment or coalition mission mandate targeting Strait of Hormuz shipping security by April 25, 2026 — diplomatic language about 'discussions,' 'contingency planning,' or 'enhanced presence' does not satisfy the criterion.

• institutional-void

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  • pred-2026-05-20-405 By 2026-07-15, at least two US regulatory agencies currently experiencing confirmed leadership vacancies (including FDA following the head's resignation confirmed in May 2026) will have publicly missed a statutory deadline OR received a court ruling or published Inspector General report formally attributing documented operational failure to the vacancy cascade — with evidentiary basis in agency records, court dockets, or published IG reports.

• institutionalized reset-statement norm (blair/brown precedents)

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  • pred-2026-05-05-352 Labour will lose net control of 4 or more councils in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, AND Keir Starmer's government will issue a public reset or course-correction statement (press conference, policy announcement, or explicit reframing of government direction) within 72 hours of results being declared, by approximately May 11, 2026.

• instrument-substitution-under-constraint

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  • pred-2026-05-10-383 Within 14 days of the court ruling striking down 10% global tariffs (by 2026-05-24), the Trump administration will file an emergency stay application in federal court OR issue a new executive order reimposing substantially equivalent global tariff measures (≥8% on a broad category of imports).

• insurance market enforcement

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  • pred-2026-04-13-229 Brent crude oil will close above $100/barrel on at least 4 of the 5 trading days from April 14–18, 2026, given the announced US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

• insurance seigniorage

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  • pred-2026-04-06-161 De facto majority halt of commercial Bab al-Mandeb transits—defined as sustained traffic at ≤50% of pre-October 2023 baseline due to voluntary rerouting and insurance market withdrawal—will persist through May 18, 2026, without requiring a formal Houthi closure declaration.

• insurgency

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  • Policy Brief: Nostalgia as Governance Occupation

• insurgent quality signal

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  • pred-2026-04-27-327 By 2026-07-26 (within 90 days of Defence Minister Camara's assassination), the Malian transitional government will experience at least one of: (a) a formal military coup replacing the Goïta-led junta, (b) an officially announced dissolution or restructuring of the unified military command, or (c) a publicly acknowledged loss of administrative control over a named provincial capital. The most probable pathway is acknowledged provincial capital loss or announced command restructuring; a formal coup is the least likely criterion due to novel Wagner/AES transaction-cost constraints absent in prior Malian episodes.

• insurrection

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  • The Evidentiary Constitution of Property: Tribunal, Omen, and the Insurrection Threshold

• integral ratchet

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  • pred-2026-04-06-157 The Bureau of Labor Statistics' March 2026 CPI report (expected release ~April 10, 2026) will show headline inflation at or above 3.5% year-over-year.
  • pred-2026-04-07-165 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 5, 2026 (released April 10, 2026) will come in BELOW 230,000, remaining consistent with pre-tariff baseline and within the structural lag window before tariff-shock displacement becomes visible in formal claims data.

• intention

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  • pred-2026-03-17-001 By December 2026, the US federal government will have imposed behavioral or work-activity requirements as a condition of Medicaid eligibility for non-disabled, non-elderly adults, either through provisions in the FY2026 budget reconciliation bill or through CMS approval of at least 8 new state Section 1115 waivers mandating 'community engagement' (work, job training, or volunteering) as a condition of continued Medicaid coverage. The framing of these requirements will be primarily intentional — emphasizing personal responsibility, self-sufficiency, and willingness to improve — rather than purely fiscal, marking the structural shift of the means-test from material-condition assessment to intention-assessment.

• inter-agency-coordination-breakdown

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  • pred-2026-05-20-405 By 2026-07-15, at least two US regulatory agencies currently experiencing confirmed leadership vacancies (including FDA following the head's resignation confirmed in May 2026) will have publicly missed a statutory deadline OR received a court ruling or published Inspector General report formally attributing documented operational failure to the vacancy cascade — with evidentiary basis in agency records, court dockets, or published IG reports.

• inter-capital contradiction

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  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper

• inter-capital faction conflict

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  • pred-2026-04-24-307 The BEA advance estimate of Q1 2026 real GDP growth (released ~April 30, 2026) will show negative annualized growth — a technical contraction below 0% — driven primarily by a large negative net-exports contribution from pre-tariff import front-loading, compounded by suppressed fixed investment.

• inter-capitalist class conflict via legal superstructure

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  • pred-2026-05-09-376 A US federal appellate court (Federal Circuit) will grant an emergency administrative stay reinstating the 10% global baseline tariff within 14 days of the Trade Court ruling, by 2026-05-23, pending full merits briefing and panel review.

• inter-fractional capital conflict

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  • pred-2026-05-03-342 The United States will NOT formally announce a net reduction of at least 10,000 troops stationed in Germany, Italy, or Spain by June 28, 2026 — despite Germany's 'anticipated' withdrawal signal and Spain/Italy being cited as next candidates. Withdrawal signaling will continue verbally and through informal restructuring, but no DoD-level formal announcement triggering NDAA notification thresholds will materialize within this window.

• inter-imperial managed competition

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  • pred-2026-05-12-395 The Trump-Xi summit will produce a publicly announced trade framework containing at least one of: (a) named tariff reduction percentages, (b) identified sector carve-outs, or (c) explicit numerical purchase or trade-flow targets — before May 26, 2026. Any such framework will be at most semi-binding, without operative enforcement architecture.

• inter-imperialist competition

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  • pred-2026-03-26-109 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include a publicly stated blanket tariff rate of 10% or higher on EU goods in non-automotive, non-steel sectors, confirmed in official White House or Federal Register communication on or before April 4, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-10-195 At least one unannounced tariff measure — executive order imposing new duties, retaliatory product list expansion, or formal suspension of a trade exemption — will be publicly announced by either the US or China between April 10–24, 2026, without having been publicly pre-signaled before April 10.

• inter-imperialist contradiction

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  • pred-2026-04-13-231 By April 26, 2026, at least 3 G7 members beyond the UK will issue formal, public governmental statements declining to participate in the US Hormuz blockade — most likely Germany, Japan, and France.

• inter-imperialist rivalry

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  • pred-2026-03-15-003 At least one major G7 economy will announce new import tariffs or domestic industrial subsidies in Q2-Q3 2026 (April–September 2026) explicitly framed as 'protecting workers,' 'industrial fairness,' or equivalent labor-solidarity language, where independent distributional analysis confirms the primary economic beneficiary is an upstream extractive or capital-intensive monopoly sector rather than the downstream labor force named in the announcement.

• interagency transaction costs

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  • pred-2026-04-07-167 No formal US government instrument — whether executive order, DoD directive, or binding interagency framework — explicitly delineating permitted versus prohibited uses of commercial AI systems in military and civilian government contexts will be issued by May 31, 2026; the Pentagon-Anthropic dispute will instead resolve through bilateral contract modification, informal DoD guidance, or non-binding working-group output that preserves administrative optionality.

• interest

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  • The Interest Trickster: Executive Temporality, Joy's Absence, and the Discount Rate as Governance Grammar

• intermediary institution degradation

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  • pred-2026-04-27-326 A direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic contact will be publicly announced or confirmed before May 11, 2026, through any qualifying channel (formal bilateral statement, intermediary-confirmed back-channel via Oman, Russia, or Switzerland, or UN-corridor acknowledgment by any party to the exchange).

• intermediate escalation menu

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  • pred-2026-05-08-372 The United States will not conduct direct kinetic strikes on Iranian territory or Iranian military installations inside Iran by June 30, 2026; any kinetic response will remain outside Iranian borders — targeting Iranian naval vessels or oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, or Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria, or Yemen.

• intermediate-register-stability

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  • pred-2026-04-19-249 No formal IPC Phase 5 famine declaration will be issued for any part of Gaza before May 3, 2026; current 'imminent famine' and Phase 5 risk language will persist as a stable institutional intermediate register without upgrade to formal declaration.

• internal labor market buffering

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  • pred-2026-04-18-241 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 19, 2026 (released April 24) will come in at or above 225,000, reflecting cumulative disruption from tariff-driven layoffs, federal workforce reductions, and associated secondary demand contraction.

• internal state-capital faction competition

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  • pred-2026-05-07-366 By June 30, 2026, China will NOT formally announce a bilateral or multilateral diplomatic initiative — hosted talks, ceasefire proposal, or maritime security framework — for the Hormuz standoff; Beijing will conduct back-channel mediation and issue rhetorical calls for dialogue through SCO/BRI venues but will not make a public, attributable formal commitment to a resolution process.

• interoperability

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  • pred-2026-04-10-001 By March 31, 2027, at least three of the ten largest technology companies by market capitalization (regardless of headquarter jurisdiction) will have adopted the EU AI Act's risk-classification taxonomy as their global default for AI product governance — applying the Act's prohibited, high-risk, limited-risk, and minimal-risk categories to all markets, not only the EU — rather than maintaining jurisdiction-specific compliance regimes. This corporate convergence will occur despite the absence of comparable legislation in the United States (and the Trump administration's active AI deregulation posture), driven by the interoperability requirement: maintaining separate classification systems for each jurisdiction's regulatory grammar is more expensive than adopting the most comprehensive existing standard as the global default. The EU's 'census of algorithms' — its categorization of AI systems into discrete risk levels, converting the continuous spectrum of AI capability into governable stock — becomes the operative global taxonomy through corporate interoperability decisions, not through diplomatic agreement or treaty convergence. The mechanism replicates the GDPR's data-sovereignty-to-convergence dynamic (analysis 187) at the AI governance layer, with the Atlantic fracture accelerating rather than impeding convergence: US companies hedge geopolitical risk by choosing the stricter standard as their global baseline, producing a split between the state demos (which the US government's deregulatory census counts as 'American innovation freed from red tape') and the corporate operative population (which operates on EU interoperability terms regardless of political jurisdiction).

• interstate paradox of thrift

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  • pred-2026-04-21-275 By June 16, 2026, international Gaza reconstruction pledges announced at any formal conference or donor coordination mechanism will nominally total at least $5B USD, but no operational disbursement mechanism will exist that has transferred capital to Gaza-based entities — leaving commitments as unfunded declarations without a functioning payment architecture.

• intervention ratchet

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  • pred-2026-04-11-211 Fidesz-KDNP retains parliamentary majority and government formation capacity in Hungary's April 2026 national vote; Péter Magyar's Tisza opposition achieves a polling-competitive performance but fails to translate vote proximity into a decisive seat majority — final governing-coalition seat share remains above 50%.

• intervention-ladder

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  • pred-2026-05-03-344 The UK government will NOT formally declare an energy emergency or extend mandatory energy rationing beyond the existing airline cancellation order by 2026-05-17; energy management will proceed through escalating sector-specific administrative orders while preserving market governance architecture.

• interventionism-ratchet

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  • pred-2026-05-10-383 Within 14 days of the court ruling striking down 10% global tariffs (by 2026-05-24), the Trump administration will file an emergency stay application in federal court OR issue a new executive order reimposing substantially equivalent global tariff measures (≥8% on a broad category of imports).

• interventionist ratchet

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  • pred-2026-04-10-195 At least one unannounced tariff measure — executive order imposing new duties, retaliatory product list expansion, or formal suspension of a trade exemption — will be publicly announced by either the US or China between April 10–24, 2026, without having been publicly pre-signaled before April 10.

• intra-bourgeois defection

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  • pred-2026-04-11-211 Fidesz-KDNP retains parliamentary majority and government formation capacity in Hungary's April 2026 national vote; Péter Magyar's Tisza opposition achieves a polling-competitive performance but fails to translate vote proximity into a decisive seat majority — final governing-coalition seat share remains above 50%.

• intra-bourgeois-contradiction

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  • pred-2026-03-23-081 By April 6, 2026, at least one publicly confirmed instance of direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic communication will occur — through the Omani channel, a UN interlocutor, or an official statement from any party acknowledging that talks are underway — as opposed to continued public escalation or formal rejection of negotiations on all fronts.

• intra-capital class conflict

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  • pred-2026-03-28-133 The US Liberation Day tariff package announced April 2, 2026 will NOT be implemented cleanly on schedule — by April 11, 2026, announced bilateral exemptions, product exclusions, implementation delays, or country-specific carve-outs will collectively affect more than 20% of the originally targeted import value.

• intra-capital conflict and circulation regime disruption

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  • pred-2026-04-26-319 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 GDP (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized quarter-over-quarter growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.5% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading statistical drag from tariff anticipation and compounded by capital investment deferral and fiscal contraction.

• intra-capital fractional conflict

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  • pred-2026-04-24-303 The FOMC will vote to hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, with no dissents favoring an immediate cut or hike.

• intra-capital negotiation

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  • pred-2026-04-07-167 No formal US government instrument — whether executive order, DoD directive, or binding interagency framework — explicitly delineating permitted versus prohibited uses of commercial AI systems in military and civilian government contexts will be issued by May 31, 2026; the Pentagon-Anthropic dispute will instead resolve through bilateral contract modification, informal DoD guidance, or non-binding working-group output that preserves administrative optionality.

• intra-capital-conflict

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  • pred-2026-03-17-019 The Bank of England MPC will hold the Bank Rate at 4.5% at its March 19-20 meeting, with a vote split of at least 7-2 (hold-cut), meaning 2 or more members dissent in favor of a 25bp cut.

• intra-class competition

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  • pred-2026-03-25-107 The UK government's proposed ban on cryptocurrency political donations will pass second reading in the House of Commons by 15 May 2026.

• intra-imperialist trade conflict

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  • pred-2026-04-10-197 The European Commission will NOT formally adopt a comprehensive retaliatory tariff or countermeasure package targeting US goods that clearly goes beyond existing WTO-route safeguard measures by May 31, 2026; instead, the Commission will adopt a phased framework authorization, safeguard extension, or Anti-Coercion Instrument activation notice that preserves escalation optionality without crossing the 'comprehensive, beyond WTO-route' threshold specified.

• intra-iranian class competition

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  • pred-2026-05-10-386 A subsequent round of US-Iran indirect nuclear or Hormuz-related talks will be publicly confirmed or announced before 2026-05-24, following Iran's published response to the latest US framework proposal.

• intra-ruling-class factional alignment

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  • pred-2026-04-21-271 US-Iran nuclear negotiations will not produce a formal framework agreement or substantive joint statement with specific parameters before April 30, 2026; the most likely outcome is either a minimal procedural signal (announced next-round schedule or anodyne communiqué) or quiet continuation without formal public output — not a genuine breakthrough and not outright collapse.

• intra-ruling-class rupture and gramscian hegemonic fracture

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  • pred-2026-04-12-217 The Tisza/Magyar Péter coalition will win a sufficient number of parliamentary seats in the April 12, 2026 Hungarian elections to form a majority government without Fidesz — operationalized as securing at least 100 seats in the 199-seat National Assembly and proceeding to coalition government formation without Orbán as Prime Minister.

• intra-ruling-class-conflict

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  • pred-2026-05-10-383 Within 14 days of the court ruling striking down 10% global tariffs (by 2026-05-24), the Trump administration will file an emergency stay application in federal court OR issue a new executive order reimposing substantially equivalent global tariff measures (≥8% on a broad category of imports).

• intra-shia collective action failure

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  • pred-2026-04-20-263 Iraq's ruling Shia bloc will fail to achieve both formal nomination AND parliamentary confirmation of a new prime minister by June 1, 2026, with the process remaining unresolved or stalled at the confirmation stage.

• intuition

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  • The Piece-Form: Epistemic Hedging, Intuition Suppression, and the Anachronism of Fragment-Based Knowledge
  • pred-2026-03-13-001 Initial jobless claims for the week ending March 15, 2026 (reported Thursday March 20, 2026) will remain below 235,000.

• inventory accumulation offset

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  • pred-2026-04-22-283 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show negative real GDP growth (annualized rate below 0%), likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by a net exports collapse from pre-tariff import front-loading.

• inventory buffer depletion

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  • pred-2026-04-08-183 US March 2026 headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released approximately April 10, 2026.

• inventory buffer exhaustion

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  • pred-2026-03-29-145 The US ISM Manufacturing PMI for March 2026 will print below 48.0 upon release circa April 1, 2026, confirming manufacturing contraction consistent with compound tariff escalation and Hormuz-driven energy cost pass-through into manufacturing inputs.
  • pred-2026-04-09-187 March 2026 US CPI (all items, year-over-year) prints at or above 3.0% when released approximately April 10–11, 2026.

• inventory cycle

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  • pred-2026-05-07-368 The US April 2026 CPI report (released approximately May 13-14) will show year-over-year headline inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating meaningful tariff-driven pass-through to consumer goods prices.

• inventory cycle exhaustion

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  • pred-2026-05-05-356 The BLS April 2026 CPI report (~May 13 release) will show headline YoY inflation at or above 3.5%, consistent with measurable tariff pass-through crossing that threshold in the April measurement window.

• inventory front-loading buffer

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  • pred-2026-04-08-177 The March 2026 US headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released during the week of April 7–11, 2026, driven by tariff pass-through in goods categories and embedded energy cost from the pre-ceasefire Iran-Hormuz disruption.

• inventory shield depletion

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  • pred-2026-05-11-388 The US CPI release on approximately May 12-14, 2026 (measuring April 2026 price levels) will show headline year-over-year inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating that tariff pass-through has cleared the institutional absorption buffers within 8-10 weeks of the April 2026 tariff escalation.

• inventory-to-sales ratio dynamics

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  • pred-2026-04-26-319 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 GDP (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized quarter-over-quarter growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.5% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading statistical drag from tariff anticipation and compounded by capital investment deferral and fiscal contraction.

• investment deferral

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  • pred-2026-04-27-325 The BEA's advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP (scheduled for release ~April 30, 2026) will show a negative quarter-on-quarter annualized growth rate, i.e., real GDP contraction.

• investment freeze

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  • pred-2026-04-28-331 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show annualized real GDP growth below 1.0%, driven by a negative net-exports drag from tariff-anticipation import front-loading and suppressed gross private fixed investment from tariff-uncertainty-induced capital deferral.

• investment gap

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  • pred-2026-04-27-330 At least one G7 economy other than Canada will formally announce a new sovereign wealth fund or a qualifying expansion (>$10bn USD equivalent) of an existing public investment vehicle by 2026-06-22.

• investment uncertainty under fundamental unknowability

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  • pred-2026-03-16-011 Tanker transit volume through the Strait of Hormuz will remain at least 40% below pre-conflict baseline through June 30, 2026, with durable rerouting of Gulf crude exports toward alternative corridors (Saudi East-West Pipeline, UAE Fujairah) becoming structurally embedded regardless of formal closure status.

• iran war energy disruption

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  • pred-2026-03-24-091 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast downward by at least 0.5 percentage points from its Autumn 2025 Statement projection in the Spring Statement 2026 fiscal event on March 26, 2026.

• iranian strategic multiplier

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  • pred-2026-05-07-365 By May 21, 2026, Hezbollah will neither formally declare the 2024 Lebanon ceasefire void nor launch a single retaliatory barrage exceeding 50 projectiles toward northern Israel in response to the reported Beirut strike. Sub-threshold response (drone incursions, cross-border fire under 50 projectiles, diplomatic escalation through Iranian channels) is the expected equilibrium.

• irgc as autonomous class formation

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  • pred-2026-04-23-297 A publicly confirmed kinetic naval engagement between US forces and Iranian vessels in or near the Strait of Hormuz will occur by May 7, 2026, following Trump's standing shoot order against mine-laying boats.

• irgc class fraction material interests

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  • pred-2026-05-06-359 Iranian government officials will NOT issue any formal statement or diplomatic action officially indicating openness to negotiation over Hormuz transit access before May 20, 2026 (within 14 days of the Project Freedom pause announcement)

• irgc class interest

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  • pred-2026-03-25-101 Pakistan-mediated US-Iran contacts will NOT produce a publicly announced bilateral meeting, formal ceasefire talks, or nuclear negotiation framework by April 30, 2026

• irgc extraction paradox

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  • pred-2026-04-27-326 A direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic contact will be publicly announced or confirmed before May 11, 2026, through any qualifying channel (formal bilateral statement, intermediary-confirmed back-channel via Oman, Russia, or Switzerland, or UN-corridor acknowledgment by any party to the exchange).

• irgc extraction rents and sanctions opacity

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  • pred-2026-04-11-205 Iran will not issue a formal public statement explicitly confirming participation in a second round of US-Iran diplomatic talks by April 25, 2026, instead maintaining strategic ambiguity through hedged ministerial language while backchannel engagement continues.

• irgc malinvestment lock-in

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  • pred-2026-04-12-225 The Iran-Hormuz ceasefire will not collapse before April 26, 2026 — neither (a) renewed Iranian military interdiction of commercial shipping nor (b) a formal US or Israeli declaration of resumed offensive operations against Iranian forces will occur within this window.

• irgc organizational self-preservation

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  • pred-2026-05-02-339 Iran will not conduct a significant escalation of Hormuz commercial shipping disruption — defined as three or more vessel seizures in a 30-day window, a formally declared exclusion zone, or a mine-laying operation targeting commercial traffic — between May 2 and June 15, 2026.

• irgc parallel-economy rents

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  • pred-2026-04-18-243 No formal written ceasefire framework, interim nuclear deal, or jointly-acknowledged negotiating document will be publicly announced by both the US and Iran by May 2, 2026; the Oman channel will produce at most ambiguous unilateral statements or vague claims of 'constructive' progress

• irgc political-economy lock-in

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  • pred-2026-04-27-329 The United States and Iran will NOT issue any formal joint statement, agreed framework document, or publicly announced roadmap from their ongoing nuclear/sanctions diplomacy before May 11, 2026.

• irgc principal-agent divergence

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  • pred-2026-04-07-163 By April 14, 2026, the Pakistan-brokered US-Iran diplomatic channel will produce at least one publicly announced output — framework agreement, joint communiqué, ceasefire proposal, or confirmed follow-on talks — rather than a US military strike order or announced total diplomatic collapse with no scheduled continuation.

• irgc rentier fraction

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  • pred-2026-03-23-089 No formal ceasefire agreement or publicly announced binding de-escalation framework between Iran and the United States will be announced by May 15, 2026, whether through Pakistan, Gulf-state, or direct mediation.

• irgc-autarky-rents

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  • pred-2026-03-25-105 By April 8, 2026, the US and Iran will NOT publicly confirm a scheduled direct or Oman-mediated bilateral meeting at deputy-foreign-minister level or above to discuss nuclear or military de-escalation terms.

• irgc-capital

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  • pred-2026-04-08-175 The first round of US-Iran talks in Islamabad (approximately April 11–15, 2026) will NOT produce a publicly announced joint communiqué, agreed negotiating framework, or explicit agenda document for nuclear/sanctions discussions by April 15, 2026. The publicly observable outcome will be, at most, a vague procedural statement ('constructive atmosphere; parties agreed to continue') that avoids committing either side to a specific agenda, timeline, or negotiating framework.

• irgc-navy coordination asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-03-26-117 By 2026-04-09, Iran will formally announce at least one of: (a) Strait of Hormuz passage restrictions or mandatory transit fees, or (b) publicly acknowledged retaliatory strikes against Israeli or US military assets, explicitly linked to the killing of Iran's naval chief.

• irgc-patronage-reproduction

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  • pred-2026-03-24-093 By April 7, 2026, no formal public confirmation of direct or Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic talks will be issued by official representatives of any of the three governments.

• irgc-pragmatist factional competition

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  • pred-2026-03-22-069 Iran will NOT formally suspend IAEA inspector access nor announce NPT withdrawal within 14 days of the Natanz strike — i.e., no formal suspension order or NPT withdrawal notice will be issued by 2026-04-05. Iran will instead escalate within the framework: accelerated enrichment, reduced inspector access, expulsion of specific personnel, and declaratory threats, while preserving formal treaty membership.

• irgc-rent-seeking

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  • pred-2026-04-11-213 By April 25, 2026, Iran will NOT satisfy both conditions simultaneously: (1) formal Iranian delegation participation in the Islamabad round AND (2) a substantive joint framework or communiqué explicitly addressing Hormuz access conditions with verifiable parameters. The joint probability of both conditions being met is approximately 8%.

• irreparable harm doctrine

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  • pred-2026-03-17-015 The US Supreme Court will NOT issue a stay or preliminary injunction halting the administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status within 14 days of the March 17, 2026 expedited argument session (resolution by 2026-03-31).

• irreversibility discount

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  • pred-2026-05-07-369 By June 18, 2026, Israel will formally announce and initiate a large-scale ground military operation explicitly described by the Israeli military as decisive or final-phase, targeting remaining Hamas governance structures in Rafah or northern Gaza, operationally distinct from current targeted raids.

• irreversibility norm

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  • pred-2026-03-17-015 The US Supreme Court will NOT issue a stay or preliminary injunction halting the administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status within 14 days of the March 17, 2026 expedited argument session (resolution by 2026-03-31).

• ism manufacturing pmi

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  • pred-2026-03-29-145 The US ISM Manufacturing PMI for March 2026 will print below 48.0 upon release circa April 1, 2026, confirming manufacturing contraction consistent with compound tariff escalation and Hormuz-driven energy cost pass-through into manufacturing inputs.

• jcpoa credibility deficit

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  • pred-2026-04-10-199 The US-Pakistan-Iran Islamabad talks will NOT produce a publicly announced, jointly attributed statement, framework agreement, or ceasefire extension mechanism by April 20, 2026. Any communiqué issued will be a unilateral Pakistani facilitation summary rather than a jointly signed or jointly attributed document.

• jcpoa credibility depreciation

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  • pred-2026-04-24-305 US-Iran nuclear and sanctions negotiations will NOT produce a publicly acknowledged written framework or agreement-in-principle document by May 31, 2026. Talks will continue in back-channel form; any visible output will be verbal acknowledgments of 'progress' rather than a signed or jointly circulated text.

• jcpoa credibility discount

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  • pred-2026-04-18-243 No formal written ceasefire framework, interim nuclear deal, or jointly-acknowledged negotiating document will be publicly announced by both the US and Iran by May 2, 2026; the Oman channel will produce at most ambiguous unilateral statements or vague claims of 'constructive' progress

• jcpoa defection precedent

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  • pred-2026-03-23-089 No formal ceasefire agreement or publicly announced binding de-escalation framework between Iran and the United States will be announced by May 15, 2026, whether through Pakistan, Gulf-state, or direct mediation.

• jcpoa path dependence

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  • pred-2026-03-26-113 The United States and Iran will NOT publicly announce the opening of formal direct bilateral nuclear negotiations on or before May 15, 2026; back-channel or third-party mediation activity may intensify but will not produce a jointly acknowledged formal bilateral announcement within this window.
  • pred-2026-04-28-333 The US and Iran will NOT announce a formal written framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program before June 23, 2026; the diplomatic channel will remain in 'talks continuing' ambiguity mode throughout the window.

• jcpoa precedent

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  • pred-2026-04-25-313 US and Iranian envoys will NOT jointly release a written framework document — communiqué, statement of principles, or agreed enrichment parameters — by 2026-05-09, the 14-day window following expected talk commencement around 2026-05-02. Talks will produce at most a procedural signal (agreement to continue, 'constructive atmosphere' language) without a jointly signed or jointly attributed text encoding substantive commitments.

• jcpoa scar tissue

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  • pred-2026-04-19-253 The US-Pakistan-Iran diplomatic track will NOT produce a publicly announced tangible output — no joint communiqué, agreed framework, or confirmed next round of direct/indirect talks — by May 3, 2026; the ceiling outcome is an informal 'constructive discussions' readout below the threshold of tangible diplomatic product.

• jcpoa-trust-architecture-destruction

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  • pred-2026-03-25-105 By April 8, 2026, the US and Iran will NOT publicly confirm a scheduled direct or Oman-mediated bilateral meeting at deputy-foreign-minister level or above to discuss nuclear or military de-escalation terms.

• jcpoa-withdrawal path dependence

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  • pred-2026-04-22-277 No written framework agreement or formal joint communiqué committing both parties to continued structured negotiations will emerge from the current US-Iran talks before April 30, 2026; any public statement will be a unilateral declaration, verbal understanding, or silence — not a jointly-attributed written instrument with process commitments.

• journey

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  • Policy Brief: The Journey as Recognition-Embargo — Restoring Entitlement-Accumulation in Platform, Gig, and Migration Labor

• joy

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  • The Interest Trickster: Executive Temporality, Joy's Absence, and the Discount Rate as Governance Grammar

• juridical absorption

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  • pred-2026-05-01-336 Congress will not advance any war powers resolution, supplemental appropriations bill, or defunding amendment specifically addressing the Iran military operation to a committee vote by June 26, 2026.

• juridical cover mechanism

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  • pred-2026-05-08-374 The US-China trade talks currently underway will produce at least one publicly announced output — a framework agreement, a tariff reduction commitment, or a formal negotiating roadmap — by May 22, 2026.

• juridical superstructure as accommodation cover

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  • pred-2026-05-09-381 By June 30, 2026, the EU will formally pause, extend, or substantially modify its July 4 retaliatory tariff ultimatum against the US, and will cite US domestic court battles over tariff legality as a stated ground for the modification, rather than allowing the deadline to stand unchanged.

• jurisdictional fragmentation

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  • pred-2026-04-07-167 No formal US government instrument — whether executive order, DoD directive, or binding interagency framework — explicitly delineating permitted versus prohibited uses of commercial AI systems in military and civilian government contexts will be issued by May 31, 2026; the Pentagon-Anthropic dispute will instead resolve through bilateral contract modification, informal DoD guidance, or non-binding working-group output that preserves administrative optionality.

• kaleckian markup

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  • pred-2026-03-23-079 The Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE price index at or above 2.8% year-over-year when data releases on or around March 28, 2026.

• kaleckian markup pricing

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  • pred-2026-04-07-169 US headline CPI for March 2026 will print at or above 3.5% year-over-year when released approximately April 10, 2026.

• kaleckian profit-push

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  • pred-2026-03-15-003 At least one major G7 economy will announce new import tariffs or domestic industrial subsidies in Q2-Q3 2026 (April–September 2026) explicitly framed as 'protecting workers,' 'industrial fairness,' or equivalent labor-solidarity language, where independent distributional analysis confirms the primary economic beneficiary is an upstream extractive or capital-intensive monopoly sector rather than the downstream labor force named in the announcement.

• kaleckian-markup

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  • pred-2026-03-20-049 February 2026 core PCE inflation (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.7% year-over-year, exceeding the January reading and the Fed's December SEP projection of 2.6%.

• keynesian fundamental uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-04-23-295 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no cut or hike in the post-meeting statement.

• keynesian liquidity preference

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  • pred-2026-04-21-267 By May 5, 2026, neither the US nor Iran will publicly acknowledge the reported Islamabad back-channel talks through any jointly recognized framework, agreed formal agenda, or confirmed next-round meeting date; the public-denial/back-channel split will persist without official acknowledgment from either Tehran or Washington.

• khamenei choke point as single-actor veto on formal diplomatic confirmation

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  • pred-2026-04-11-205 Iran will not issue a formal public statement explicitly confirming participation in a second round of US-Iran diplomatic talks by April 25, 2026, instead maintaining strategic ambiguity through hedged ministerial language while backchannel engagement continues.

• kirznerian entrepreneurial discovery

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  • pred-2026-04-21-265 Reform UK will finish in second place ahead of the Conservative Party in the Birmingham by-election, while Labour retains the seat with a majority below 5,000 votes

• kirznerian entrepreneurship

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  • pred-2026-05-07-364 Labour will lose net control of at least 3 councils and at least 150 council seats in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, confirming a major Reform/Green pincer surge.

• knightian uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-03-17-017 No publicly announced US-China presidential summit or scheduled Xi-Trump direct bilateral communication will be made by May 1, 2026. The relationship will remain in managed-tension equilibrium with back-channel activity but no formal announcement.
  • pred-2026-03-18-025 The March 2026 FOMC Summary of Economic Projections will show the median 2026 rate-cut projection at 2 or fewer cuts (a downward revision from December's 3-cut median); Powell will use energy-supply-uncertainty language that gestures at Hormuz without explicit naming. The OR compound resolves TRUE primarily through the dot-plot pathway, with explicit Hormuz citation being the uncertain secondary condition.
  • pred-2026-03-21-061 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (expected March 26, 2026), down from the October 2025 forecast of approximately 1.6%.
  • pred-2026-03-22-067 The BEA's February 2026 core PCE price index release (~March 28, 2026) will show core PCE inflation at or above 2.8% year-over-year.
  • pred-2026-03-27-001 By April 7, 2026, at least one of the following will occur: (a) a formal GCC joint communiqué condemning or demanding reversal of Iran's Hormuz transit fees, (b) a CENTCOM freedom-of-navigation counter-announcement or declaration regarding the transit fee, or (c) Brent crude closing above $108/barrel on at least one trading day — with Brent crossing $108 as the primary resolution pathway (est. 70% standalone probability) and a CENTCOM declaration as the secondary (est. 55% standalone), and GCC communiqué as the least likely of the three (est. 28% standalone).
  • pred-2026-03-27-127 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast to below 1.5% in the Spring Statement (due 2026-03-31), down from approximately 2.0% in the Autumn Statement 2025, citing Hormuz-driven energy costs and trade uncertainty.
  • pred-2026-04-08-175 The first round of US-Iran talks in Islamabad (approximately April 11–15, 2026) will NOT produce a publicly announced joint communiqué, agreed negotiating framework, or explicit agenda document for nuclear/sanctions discussions by April 15, 2026. The publicly observable outcome will be, at most, a vague procedural statement ('constructive atmosphere; parties agreed to continue') that avoids committing either side to a specific agenda, timeline, or negotiating framework.
  • pred-2026-04-12-223 The Hungarian opposition coalition led by TISZA will fail to deny Fidesz its parliamentary supermajority (≥133 seats) in the April 2026 elections — Fidesz will retain constitutional amendment capacity.
  • pred-2026-04-17-235 Brent crude oil will exceed $110/bbl on at least one trading day between 2026-04-17 and 2026-04-27, given the active US naval blockade of Iranian ports and a $103/bbl baseline.
  • pred-2026-04-20-261 By May 4, 2026, the US tariff refund system will face publicly documented administrative backlog, processing freeze, or formal capacity warning — sourced from CBP, USTR, a major trade publication (Journal of Commerce, Inside US Trade, Bloomberg), or a major trade association (NAM, NRF, or equivalent) — attributable to simultaneous mass filing pressure from thousands of importers at launch.
  • pred-2026-04-21-271 US-Iran nuclear negotiations will not produce a formal framework agreement or substantive joint statement with specific parameters before April 30, 2026; the most likely outcome is either a minimal procedural signal (announced next-round schedule or anodyne communiqué) or quiet continuation without formal public output — not a genuine breakthrough and not outright collapse.
  • pred-2026-04-22-279 None of the three formal challenge triggers materialize by May 6, 2026: no cabinet-level resignation directly linked to the Robbins/diplomatic-job revelations, no formal Labour leadership nomination letter signed by 20+ MPs, and no government defeat on a Commons confidence-adjacent motion.
  • pred-2026-04-24-301 The Liberal Party of Canada under Mark Carney will win enough seats on April 28, 2026 to form government (minority or majority), and Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party will fail to form government.
  • pred-2026-04-28-331 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show annualized real GDP growth below 1.0%, driven by a negative net-exports drag from tariff-anticipation import front-loading and suppressed gross private fixed investment from tariff-uncertainty-induced capital deferral.
  • pred-2026-04-28-332 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds target rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, with no dissents favoring a rate cut.

• knightian uncertainty and animal spirits suppression

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  • pred-2026-05-08-371 The Trump administration will obtain an emergency appellate stay of the Court of International Trade ruling invalidating the 10% global baseline tariffs within 14 days of that ruling (by May 21, 2026), keeping the tariffs operationally in force pending full appellate review.

• knightian uncertainty and institutional conservatism

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  • pred-2026-05-09-376 A US federal appellate court (Federal Circuit) will grant an emergency administrative stay reinstating the 10% global baseline tariff within 14 days of the Trade Court ruling, by 2026-05-23, pending full merits briefing and panel review.

• knightian uncertainty and investment paralysis

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  • pred-2026-04-23-289 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP growth (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized real growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized.

• knightian uncertainty elevation

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  • pred-2026-04-12-227 By June 7, 2026, at least one major GCC sovereign wealth fund (ADIA, PIF, QIA, or KIA) will publicly announce a formal reallocation strategy reducing US-denominated asset exposure by 10%+ or establishing a new European/Swiss-domiciled investment vehicle, explicitly citing Iran-war geopolitical risk or Hormuz corridor uncertainty as justification.

• knightian uncertainty suppression of business investment

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  • pred-2026-05-08-374 The US-China trade talks currently underway will produce at least one publicly announced output — a framework agreement, a tariff reduction commitment, or a formal negotiating roadmap — by May 22, 2026.

• knightian-uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-03-19-043 European TTF natural gas spot price will close above €45/MWh on at least 3 of the 5 trading days from March 20–26, 2026, as markets price in the confirmed 17% reduction in Qatar LNG capacity following Iranian strikes.
  • pred-2026-03-20-049 February 2026 core PCE inflation (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.7% year-over-year, exceeding the January reading and the Fed's December SEP projection of 2.6%.
  • pred-2026-03-28-135 The OBR will revise its UK 2026 GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (March 30-31, 2026), specifically to a figure in the 0.7-0.99% range, signaling structural rather than cyclical deterioration.

• knowledge aggregation failure

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  • pred-2026-04-20-261 By May 4, 2026, the US tariff refund system will face publicly documented administrative backlog, processing freeze, or formal capacity warning — sourced from CBP, USTR, a major trade publication (Journal of Commerce, Inside US Trade, Bloomberg), or a major trade association (NAM, NRF, or equivalent) — attributable to simultaneous mass filing pressure from thousands of importers at launch.
  • pred-2026-05-06-363 The WHO will NOT issue a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) or equivalent formal international health alert (e.g., WHO Grade 3 Emergency with international spread finding) for the South African cruise-ship human-to-human hantavirus strain before June 17, 2026.

• knowledge problem

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  • pred-2026-03-15-003 At least one major G7 economy will announce new import tariffs or domestic industrial subsidies in Q2-Q3 2026 (April–September 2026) explicitly framed as 'protecting workers,' 'industrial fairness,' or equivalent labor-solidarity language, where independent distributional analysis confirms the primary economic beneficiary is an upstream extractive or capital-intensive monopoly sector rather than the downstream labor force named in the announcement.
  • pred-2026-03-17-015 The US Supreme Court will NOT issue a stay or preliminary injunction halting the administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status within 14 days of the March 17, 2026 expedited argument session (resolution by 2026-03-31).
  • pred-2026-03-17-021 No publicly announced operative agreement (ceasefire extension, hostage deal, or binding framework document with operational parameters) will emerge from the Cairo talks by March 28, 2026. Any public statement issued will be a procedural communiqué or vague progress declaration without binding commitments on ceasefire duration, hostage releases, or withdrawal timelines.
  • pred-2026-03-17-023 The United States will NOT execute or publicly authorize direct military strikes on Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026. Proxy-level operations, Iranian-controlled external asset targeting (IRGC positions in Syria/Iraq, Houthi infrastructure), and covert harassment will remain the dominant pressure mode. No White House or DoD public authorization of strikes framed as targeting Iran itself.
  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper
  • pred-2026-03-18-031 Iran or an Iran-directed proxy will execute a publicly confirmed kinetic attack on Gulf Arab energy infrastructure (oil/gas facilities, pipelines, export terminals, or refinery complexes) by April 1, 2026.
  • pred-2026-03-21-059 TTF natural gas spot prices will average above €55/MWh across the April 1–28, 2026 window, driven by Qatar LNG facility strike and sustained Gulf conflict disruption to spot cargo flows into Europe.
  • pred-2026-03-25-101 Pakistan-mediated US-Iran contacts will NOT produce a publicly announced bilateral meeting, formal ceasefire talks, or nuclear negotiation framework by April 30, 2026
  • pred-2026-03-26-115 The February 2026 PCE price index (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.8% year-over-year.
  • pred-2026-03-28-133 The US Liberation Day tariff package announced April 2, 2026 will NOT be implemented cleanly on schedule — by April 11, 2026, announced bilateral exemptions, product exclusions, implementation delays, or country-specific carve-outs will collectively affect more than 20% of the originally targeted import value.
  • pred-2026-03-28-141 No publicly announced meeting, de-escalation framework, or formal diplomatic signal between the US and Iran will emerge from Pakistan's mediation by April 11, 2026; back-channel activity will continue but remain below the public announcement threshold.
  • pred-2026-03-29-151 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include blanket tariffs of ≥10% on imports from at least one of EU, Japan, South Korea, or Mexico.
  • pred-2026-04-08-175 The first round of US-Iran talks in Islamabad (approximately April 11–15, 2026) will NOT produce a publicly announced joint communiqué, agreed negotiating framework, or explicit agenda document for nuclear/sanctions discussions by April 15, 2026. The publicly observable outcome will be, at most, a vague procedural statement ('constructive atmosphere; parties agreed to continue') that avoids committing either side to a specific agenda, timeline, or negotiating framework.
  • pred-2026-04-10-195 At least one unannounced tariff measure — executive order imposing new duties, retaliatory product list expansion, or formal suspension of a trade exemption — will be publicly announced by either the US or China between April 10–24, 2026, without having been publicly pre-signaled before April 10.
  • pred-2026-04-12-223 The Hungarian opposition coalition led by TISZA will fail to deny Fidesz its parliamentary supermajority (≥133 seats) in the April 2026 elections — Fidesz will retain constitutional amendment capacity.
  • pred-2026-04-20-259 The Lebanon-Israel direct talks on April 24, 2026 will end without a written joint communiqué, agreed withdrawal timeline, or formal security framework within 14 days (by May 4, 2026); the most probable outcome is a procedural statement affirming 'constructive dialogue' and scheduling a follow-on session, with no binding deliverable.
  • pred-2026-04-21-271 US-Iran nuclear negotiations will not produce a formal framework agreement or substantive joint statement with specific parameters before April 30, 2026; the most likely outcome is either a minimal procedural signal (announced next-round schedule or anodyne communiqué) or quiet continuation without formal public output — not a genuine breakthrough and not outright collapse.
  • pred-2026-04-21-275 By June 16, 2026, international Gaza reconstruction pledges announced at any formal conference or donor coordination mechanism will nominally total at least $5B USD, but no operational disbursement mechanism will exist that has transferred capital to Gaza-based entities — leaving commitments as unfunded declarations without a functioning payment architecture.
  • pred-2026-04-22-279 None of the three formal challenge triggers materialize by May 6, 2026: no cabinet-level resignation directly linked to the Robbins/diplomatic-job revelations, no formal Labour leadership nomination letter signed by 20+ MPs, and no government defeat on a Commons confidence-adjacent motion.
  • pred-2026-04-22-287 No written framework, parameters document, or joint statement of principles on US-Iran nuclear de-escalation will be jointly announced by June 15, 2026; talks will remain in procedural or exploratory contact phase at best
  • pred-2026-04-23-299 The $70bn ICE/Border Patrol funding bill that passed the Senate will be signed into law by June 18, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-24-303 The FOMC will vote to hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, with no dissents favoring an immediate cut or hike.
  • pred-2026-04-24-311 No Russian warships will be permanently stationed at, and no Russian troops will be based at, Indian military facilities under the April 2026 Russia-India pact by June 19, 2026; the pact will remain a declaratory framework without operational basing. Transient port calls or joint exercises, if they occur, do not constitute falsification.
  • pred-2026-04-26-322 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following the April 29–30, 2026 FOMC meeting AND will not issue explicit forward guidance committing to a rate cut at the June 2026 meeting; the statement will use 'data dependent' and 'elevated uncertainty' language while deferring any June characterization.
  • pred-2026-04-28-333 The US and Iran will NOT announce a formal written framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program before June 23, 2026; the diplomatic channel will remain in 'talks continuing' ambiguity mode throughout the window.
  • pred-2026-05-01-335 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing forward guidance consistent with continued data-dependency and no imminent directional move.
  • pred-2026-05-06-358 Brent crude oil futures will NOT decline by more than 4% within 7 days of Trump's Project Freedom pause announcement (by May 13, 2026); expected drawdown is 1–3% before stabilization or partial reversal.
  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.
  • pred-2026-05-07-364 Labour will lose net control of at least 3 councils and at least 150 council seats in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, confirming a major Reform/Green pincer surge.
  • pred-2026-05-08-370 Labour will fail to retain the largest-party position in the Welsh Senedd following the May 2026 elections, ending its uninterrupted plurality since 1999; Plaid Cymru will emerge as the party with the most seats.
  • pred-2026-05-08-372 The United States will not conduct direct kinetic strikes on Iranian territory or Iranian military installations inside Iran by June 30, 2026; any kinetic response will remain outside Iranian borders — targeting Iranian naval vessels or oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, or Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria, or Yemen.
  • pred-2026-05-09-377 At least one qualifying event will occur between 2026-05-09 and 2026-05-16: Russia formally announcing a new operational phase or mandatory mobilization expansion, OR Ukraine conducting a publicized cross-border strategic strike on Russian territory.
  • pred-2026-05-10-382 No formal vote of no confidence or leadership contest nomination will be publicly submitted against Keir Starmer as Labour leader before 2026-05-24.
  • pred-2026-05-11-393 No formal no-confidence motion in Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader will be tabled by Labour MPs, and Starmer will not publicly announce his resignation as party leader, before July 6, 2026.

• knowledge problem (coalition formation)

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  • pred-2026-04-19-255 The UK 'Starmer cover-up' controversy will remain contained as a media/parliamentary questions event with no vote of no confidence, no formal police referral gaining institutional traction, and no statutory inquiry announcement by May 3, 2026.

• knowledge problem (diplomatic form)

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  • pred-2026-04-07-171 The US and Iran will NOT produce any written diplomatic framework, joint communiqué, or publicly announced schedule for direct negotiations by April 21, 2026 — at most a procedural readout noting talks occurred.

• knowledge problem (epistemic paralysis)

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  • pred-2026-04-19-251 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing a statement that acknowledges elevated tariff-driven inflation while citing heightened uncertainty as grounds for inaction.

• knowledge problem (hayek)

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  • pred-2026-04-23-297 A publicly confirmed kinetic naval engagement between US forces and Iranian vessels in or near the Strait of Hormuz will occur by May 7, 2026, following Trump's standing shoot order against mine-laying boats.
  • pred-2026-04-27-329 The United States and Iran will NOT issue any formal joint statement, agreed framework document, or publicly announced roadmap from their ongoing nuclear/sanctions diplomacy before May 11, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-03-341 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting AND issue a statement with hawkish or hold-biased forward guidance that explicitly declines to signal rate cuts in H1 2026, citing elevated inflation uncertainty from tariff pass-through and energy price pressure.

• knowledge problem (private reservation prices)

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  • pred-2026-04-22-277 No written framework agreement or formal joint communiqué committing both parties to continued structured negotiations will emerge from the current US-Iran talks before April 30, 2026; any public statement will be a unilateral declaration, verbal understanding, or silence — not a jointly-attributed written instrument with process commitments.

• knowledge problem (sovereign credibility)

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  • pred-2026-05-12-398 The UK government will NOT announce a formal emergency fiscal consolidation measure (unscheduled spending review, emergency budget statement, or explicit new multi-billion-pound spending cut commitment) by May 26, 2026; the government will instead deploy Chancellor statements reaffirming existing fiscal rules, coordinated Treasury-OBR messaging, and verbal commitments without concrete new cuts.

• knowledge problem / degraded focal-point coordination signal

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  • pred-2026-04-21-269 Iraq's Council of Representatives will NOT formally confirm a new Prime Minister by June 7, 2026; the political vacancy will extend past that date, with at most a caretaker or placeholder nomination occurring within the 7-week window.

• knowledge problem / epistemic lag

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  • pred-2026-04-22-281 At least one of WFP, OCHA, or the IPC Famine Review Committee will formally declare IPC Phase 5 (famine) conditions in at least one zone of Gaza by June 17, 2026.

• knowledge problem / price signal distortion

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  • pred-2026-04-11-209 The KMT opposition leader's April 2026 meeting with Xi Jinping will NOT produce a publicly announced formal cross-strait dialogue proposal, joint communiqué, or institutionalized communication channel by June 5, 2026.

• knowledge problem activation

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  • pred-2026-04-25-316 The BEA advance estimate released April 30, 2026 will show Q1 2026 real GDP growth as negative (below 0.0% annualized), with a point estimate in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading surge mechanically compressing the net-exports component and secondarily by consumer spending deceleration.

• knowledge problem and blunt instrument convergence

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  • pred-2026-03-26-109 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include a publicly stated blanket tariff rate of 10% or higher on EU goods in non-automotive, non-steel sectors, confirmed in official White House or Federal Register communication on or before April 4, 2026.

• knowledge problem and confirmation option value

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  • pred-2026-04-06-159 Israel will publicly and explicitly acknowledge conducting at least one direct kinetic military strike on Iranian sovereign territory before April 20, 2026.

• knowledge problem and discovery timeline

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  • pred-2026-04-19-253 The US-Pakistan-Iran diplomatic track will NOT produce a publicly announced tangible output — no joint communiqué, agreed framework, or confirmed next round of direct/indirect talks — by May 3, 2026; the ceiling outcome is an informal 'constructive discussions' readout below the threshold of tangible diplomatic product.

• knowledge problem and political-entrepreneurial arbitrage

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  • pred-2026-05-05-352 Labour will lose net control of 4 or more councils in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, AND Keir Starmer's government will issue a public reset or course-correction statement (press conference, policy announcement, or explicit reframing of government direction) within 72 hours of results being declared, by approximately May 11, 2026.

• knowledge problem and price discovery

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  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.

• knowledge problem and tariff relative-price misidentification

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  • pred-2026-04-27-328 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing no change to the target range.

• knowledge problem and tariff-setting impossibility

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  • pred-2026-05-05-357 The US-China tariff standoff will persist without formal structural engagement through June 30, 2026 — no joint US-China statement on tariff negotiation, no ministerial-level or above bilateral negotiating session, and no publicly announced mutual tariff suspension on any product category will emerge before that date.

• knowledge problem applied to diplomatic design

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  • pred-2026-04-24-305 US-Iran nuclear and sanctions negotiations will NOT produce a publicly acknowledged written framework or agreement-in-principle document by May 31, 2026. Talks will continue in back-channel form; any visible output will be verbal acknowledgments of 'progress' rather than a signed or jointly circulated text.

• knowledge problem as announcement enabler

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  • pred-2026-05-08-374 The US-China trade talks currently underway will produce at least one publicly announced output — a framework agreement, a tariff reduction commitment, or a formal negotiating roadmap — by May 22, 2026.

• knowledge problem as epistemic suppressor

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  • pred-2026-04-22-285 No UK cabinet minister will resign from government directly citing the Doyle job controversy, and no formal Labour Party no-confidence mechanism against Starmer will be triggered, before May 6, 2026.

• knowledge problem as stabilizer

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  • pred-2026-04-09-189 By April 22, 2026, neither the United States nor Iran will publicly announce withdrawal, suspension, or termination of the ceasefire framework — the formal diplomatic shell will remain intact despite ongoing sub-formal violations in Lebanon and continued unresolved terms in the 10-point plan.

• knowledge problem in ai use-case taxonomy

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  • pred-2026-04-07-167 No formal US government instrument — whether executive order, DoD directive, or binding interagency framework — explicitly delineating permitted versus prohibited uses of commercial AI systems in military and civilian government contexts will be issued by May 31, 2026; the Pentagon-Anthropic dispute will instead resolve through bilateral contract modification, informal DoD guidance, or non-binding working-group output that preserves administrative optionality.

• knowledge problem in assessment administration

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  • pred-2026-03-23-087 The UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will announce welfare and/or disability benefit cuts or eligibility restrictions formally projected to save £5bn or more annually, with PIP eligibility tightening and/or UC work-capability conditionality intensification as the primary mechanism.

• knowledge problem in bilateral trade diplomacy

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  • pred-2026-05-12-395 The Trump-Xi summit will produce a publicly announced trade framework containing at least one of: (a) named tariff reduction percentages, (b) identified sector carve-outs, or (c) explicit numerical purchase or trade-flow targets — before May 26, 2026. Any such framework will be at most semi-binding, without operative enforcement architecture.

• knowledge problem in ceasefire enforcement

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  • pred-2026-04-25-315 The Lebanon ceasefire extended ~2026-04-21 will NOT collapse before its scheduled expiry (~2026-05-12) through a major Israeli ground operation launch or formal escalation declaration; instead it will reach expiry through incremental erosion, quiet non-renewal, or a brief additional extension.

• knowledge problem in central bank forecasting

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  • pred-2026-03-19-037 The FOMC's March 2026 SEP (released March 19) will show the median federal funds rate projection for end-2026 at 3.75–4.00% or higher (implying ≤2 cuts from 4.25–4.50%), AND the median 2026 PCE inflation projection will be revised upward from the December 2025 baseline of 2.5%.

• knowledge problem in centrally-scheduled convoy operations

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  • pred-2026-05-04-349 The US Navy will successfully coordinate the transit of at least 3 additional commercially-operated vessels through the Strait of Hormuz under naval escort between 2026-05-04 and 2026-05-14, building on the reported 2-vessel precedent and Trump's public commitment to 'guide' stranded ships.

• knowledge problem in conflict termination

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  • pred-2026-03-23-089 No formal ceasefire agreement or publicly announced binding de-escalation framework between Iran and the United States will be announced by May 15, 2026, whether through Pakistan, Gulf-state, or direct mediation.

• knowledge problem in diplomatic signaling

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  • pred-2026-04-07-163 By April 14, 2026, the Pakistan-brokered US-Iran diplomatic channel will produce at least one publicly announced output — framework agreement, joint communiqué, ceasefire proposal, or confirmed follow-on talks — rather than a US military strike order or announced total diplomatic collapse with no scheduled continuation.

• knowledge problem in enforcement

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  • pred-2026-03-25-107 The UK government's proposed ban on cryptocurrency political donations will pass second reading in the House of Commons by 15 May 2026.

• knowledge problem in formal mediation design

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  • pred-2026-05-07-366 By June 30, 2026, China will NOT formally announce a bilateral or multilateral diplomatic initiative — hosted talks, ceasefire proposal, or maritime security framework — for the Hormuz standoff; Beijing will conduct back-channel mediation and issue rhetorical calls for dialogue through SCO/BRI venues but will not make a public, attributable formal commitment to a resolution process.

• knowledge problem in high-stakes negotiation

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  • pred-2026-04-18-243 No formal written ceasefire framework, interim nuclear deal, or jointly-acknowledged negotiating document will be publicly announced by both the US and Iran by May 2, 2026; the Oman channel will produce at most ambiguous unilateral statements or vague claims of 'constructive' progress

• knowledge problem in legislative design

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  • pred-2026-05-12-396 The UK government will not table a revised welfare reform bill containing substantive conditionality or activity requirements before July 7, 2026.

• knowledge problem in macroeconomic forecasting

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  • pred-2026-03-25-097 The OBR Spring Statement (March 26, 2026) will certify UK fiscal headroom below £5bn against the stability rule, most likely in the £1–3bn range; the Chancellor will maintain nominal compliance through within-rule accounting flexibility (investment/current reclassification, forecast-year adjustment, or spending timing shifts) rather than announcing a formal named revision to the stability rule itself.

• knowledge problem in multilateral coordination

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  • pred-2026-05-09-378 The United States will not issue formal sanctions, invoke Article 4 NATO consultation, or publicly demand arms control compliance from Turkey regarding its announced ICBM program by 2026-06-20. Washington will respond at most via private diplomatic channels, rhetorical 'serious concern' statements, and possibly bilateral dialogue framing — all falling short of institutionally formalized action.

• knowledge problem in negotiation

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  • pred-2026-04-25-313 US and Iranian envoys will NOT jointly release a written framework document — communiqué, statement of principles, or agreed enrichment parameters — by 2026-05-09, the 14-day window following expected talk commencement around 2026-05-02. Talks will produce at most a procedural signal (agreement to continue, 'constructive atmosphere' language) without a jointly signed or jointly attributed text encoding substantive commitments.

• knowledge problem in official forecasting

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  • pred-2026-03-18-033 The OBR forecast published at the UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will show UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Budget forecast

• knowledge problem in policy design

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  • pred-2026-04-10-197 The European Commission will NOT formally adopt a comprehensive retaliatory tariff or countermeasure package targeting US goods that clearly goes beyond existing WTO-route safeguard measures by May 31, 2026; instead, the Commission will adopt a phased framework authorization, safeguard extension, or Anti-Coercion Instrument activation notice that preserves escalation optionality without crossing the 'comprehensive, beyond WTO-route' threshold specified.

• knowledge problem in proxy networks

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  • pred-2026-04-08-181 The US-Iran ceasefire will hold through April 22, 2026, without either US or Iranian forces conducting offensive strikes against each other's assets or proxies at brigade scale or above; sub-threshold proxy incidents will occur but will not trigger principal-level escalation.

• knowledge problem of reservation price

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  • pred-2026-03-22-077 By May 15, 2026, the EU will formally approve a Ukraine financial support package of €35bn or more — either through Hungarian consent obtained via bilateral side-payment (cohesion fund releases or rule-of-law concessions) or through a mechanism that structurally reduces Hungary's formal veto surface (ERA instrument backed by frozen Russian asset revenues, enhanced cooperation, or G7 extraordinary-revenue vehicle).

• knowledge problem under adversarial conditions

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  • pred-2026-04-10-199 The US-Pakistan-Iran Islamabad talks will NOT produce a publicly announced, jointly attributed statement, framework agreement, or ceasefire extension mechanism by April 20, 2026. Any communiqué issued will be a unilateral Pakistani facilitation summary rather than a jointly signed or jointly attributed document.

• knowledge problem under autocracy

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  • pred-2026-05-07-367 Putin's May 9, 2026 Victory Day address and surrounding official communications through May 14 will contain neither (a) a substantive unilateral ceasefire proposal with concrete operational terms directed at Ukraine or NATO, nor (b) a formal military escalation announcement such as a new mobilization wave, a new annexation declaration of territory beyond currently claimed oblasts, or an explicit expansion of formal war aims. The address will maintain existing war-justification framing with rhetorical intensification but no structural departure in either direction. If ceasefire-adjacent language appears, it will be encoded as performative diplomacy with conditions calibrated to fail (e.g., NATO withdrawal or no-membership guarantees) rather than a genuine diplomatic initiative.

• knowledge problem under compound uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-05-05-355 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, AND the post-meeting statement and Powell press conference will not signal that a rate cut is imminent (i.e., will not pre-commit to or strongly imply a June 2026 cut, defined as no shift to >70% market-implied probability of June cut immediately post-conference).

• knowledge problem under discretionary disruption

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  • pred-2026-03-16-007 Brent crude oil will close above $95/barrel on at least 7 of the 10 trading days spanning March 17–28, 2026, given ongoing US-Israeli strikes on Iran and continued selective Hormuz passage

• knowledge problem under fundamental uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-04-10-193 By April 20, 2026, Iranian authorities (IRGC, Foreign Ministry, or Supreme Leader's office) will issue at least one of the following in direct response to Trump's Hormuz passage warning: a formal counter-statement or diplomatic note, a naval repositioning or exercise announcement, or a NOTAM issuance — with the Foreign Ministry verbal counter-statement being near-certain and an IRGC operational signal being likely.

• knowledge problem under judicial uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-05-09-381 By June 30, 2026, the EU will formally pause, extend, or substantially modify its July 4 retaliatory tariff ultimatum against the US, and will cite US domestic court battles over tariff legality as a stated ground for the modification, rather than allowing the deadline to stand unchanged.

• knowledge problem under simultaneous supply-demand shocks

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  • pred-2026-05-04-346 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, maintaining the current target range without adjustment of any magnitude.

• knowledge problem under uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-04-20-263 Iraq's ruling Shia bloc will fail to achieve both formal nomination AND parliamentary confirmation of a new prime minister by June 1, 2026, with the process remaining unresolved or stalled at the confirmation stage.

• knowledge problem within cartel

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  • pred-2026-03-18-035 OPEC+ will convene an unscheduled emergency ministerial meeting OR issue a formal communiqué announcing a production policy adjustment (increase, cut, or readiness pledge) in direct response to the Gulf energy disruption by April 30, 2026.

• knowledge-advantage inversion

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  • pred-2026-04-26-321 Armed groups will NOT execute a sustained incursion into Bamako's urban core (inside the Boulevard ring road) within 8 weeks of the April 25, 2026 coordinated attacks near Bamako airport — perimeter and peri-urban pressure will continue and likely escalate, but the Boulevard threshold will not be crossed with forces operating inside the ring continuously for 48 hours or more.

• knowledge-authority-mismatch

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  • pred-2026-05-20-405 By 2026-07-15, at least two US regulatory agencies currently experiencing confirmed leadership vacancies (including FDA following the head's resignation confirmed in May 2026) will have publicly missed a statutory deadline OR received a court ruling or published Inspector General report formally attributing documented operational failure to the vacancy cascade — with evidentiary basis in agency records, court dockets, or published IG reports.

• knowledge-destruction

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  • pred-2026-04-19-249 No formal IPC Phase 5 famine declaration will be issued for any part of Gaza before May 3, 2026; current 'imminent famine' and Phase 5 risk language will persist as a stable institutional intermediate register without upgrade to formal declaration.

• knowledge-problem

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  • pred-2026-03-18-027 The Eurozone composite flash PMI for March 2026 will print below 49.0, signaling economic contraction, with the manufacturing sub-index leading at 46–47 and services dragging the composite to approximately 48.2–48.8.
  • pred-2026-03-19-047 At least 2 GCC member states beyond Qatar (most likely Saudi Arabia + Bahrain or UAE) will formally downgrade, suspend, or sever diplomatic relations with Iran by May 14, 2026, following Iran's strikes on Qatari LNG infrastructure.
  • pred-2026-03-23-081 By April 6, 2026, at least one publicly confirmed instance of direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic communication will occur — through the Omani channel, a UN interlocutor, or an official statement from any party acknowledging that talks are underway — as opposed to continued public escalation or formal rejection of negotiations on all fronts.
  • pred-2026-03-25-103 The announced 6-day junior doctors strike in England will proceed for at least 4 of its 6 scheduled days without a government-negotiated suspension agreement.
  • pred-2026-03-28-137 Iran will NOT publicly announce an explicit fee structure, passage permit regime, or formal transit agreement for Strait of Hormuz commercial shipping by May 15, 2026; informal selective extraction, ad hoc escort demands, and insurance-market pressure will continue as the dominant extraction mode with no legible institutionalization.
  • pred-2026-05-09-379 Credible reports of resumed large-scale offensive operations by Russia or Ukraine will emerge before May 15, 2026, causing the ceasefire to collapse within or immediately following its stated 72-hour window.
  • pred-2026-05-10-385 Keir Starmer will neither face a formal no-confidence motion from within the Parliamentary Labour Party (requiring ≥82 MP signatures) nor publicly announce his resignation before 2026-05-24.

• knowledge-problem coordination failure

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  • pred-2026-05-20-404 The Coalition will successfully force material amendments or procedural delay, preventing the 2026 Budget capital gains tax and negative gearing reform from passing in substantially its introduced form in the Australian Senate by 2026-06-03.

• knowledge-problem dispersion across iranian factional actors

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  • pred-2026-04-11-205 Iran will not issue a formal public statement explicitly confirming participation in a second round of US-Iran diplomatic talks by April 25, 2026, instead maintaining strategic ambiguity through hedged ministerial language while backchannel engagement continues.

• knowledge-problem legibility bias

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  • pred-2026-05-10-387 The House Agriculture Committee will approve a reconciliation markup including SNAP spending reductions and/or new or expanded work requirements before 2026-06-30, with eligibility restrictions (categorical eligibility elimination, ABAWD expansion, or BBCE elimination) carrying the primary fiscal scoring weight alongside work requirement language.

• knowledge-problem-escalation

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  • pred-2026-03-19-039 Between March 19 and April 2, 2026, Iranian state forces (IRGC or Iranian military, not proxies) will execute at least one direct ballistic missile or drone strike explicitly claimed by Iran against Israeli military installations or US military assets in the Middle East region, following the killing of intelligence chief Khatib and Ali Larijani.

• labor discipline infrastructure

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  • pred-2026-04-23-299 The $70bn ICE/Border Patrol funding bill that passed the Senate will be signed into law by June 18, 2026.

• labor hoarding

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  • pred-2026-04-26-323 The BLS April 2026 non-farm payrolls report (releasing approximately May 2, 2026) will show total payroll job creation below 100,000, reflecting a tariff-driven investment freeze and hiring slowdown.

• labor hoarding norm

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  • pred-2026-05-01-334 The April 2026 US nonfarm payrolls report (released May 2, 2026) will show net job creation above 150,000, with the headline number in the 160,000–195,000 range, sustained by BLS birth-death model contributions, post-pandemic labor-hoarding norms, and service-sector insulation from goods-sector tariff disruption — despite real underlying deterioration in job quality and a demand-side headwind from tariff-induced income compression and Iran war fiscal lag

• labor-supply-contraction

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  • pred-2026-03-28-139 The US March 2026 non-farm payrolls report (released April 3, 2026) will show job gains BELOW 150,000, while the unemployment rate holds at or below 4.2% — producing a split resolution where employment growth disappoints but the headline unemployment rate appears stable due to labor-supply contraction rather than demand recovery.

• labour factional loyalty norms

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  • pred-2026-04-21-273 The Starmer government will NOT experience a frontbench resignation or announce a by-election tied specifically to the Robbins/Mandelson vetting scandal within 14 days (by May 5, 2026); accountability pressure will be channeled into parliamentary scrutiny without producing institutional rupture.

• labyrinthine accretion

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  • pred-2026-04-23-293 By August 31, 2026, the Israeli government or IDF will formally designate and announce a named military operation or permanent administrative security zone in the northern West Bank (Jenin/Tulkarem corridor or broader), distinct from ad-hoc settler-violence responses — with Operation Iron Wall (January 2025) as the established baseline, meaning any successor named operation, formal escalation of Iron Wall into a permanent administrative zone, or new cabinet/IDF designation of a 'special security zone' with published geographic scope counts as resolution.

• labyrinthine actualization

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  • pred-2026-04-18-245 By May 31, 2026, no major GCC sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA/Mubadala/ADQ, Kuwait Investment Authority, or Qatar Investment Authority) will formally announce a strategic reduction in US dollar-denominated holdings or a new non-dollar allocation explicitly framed as a geopolitically-motivated portfolio rebalancing.

• labyrinthine governance

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  • pred-2026-04-25-318 The Malian transitional government will NOT formally declare a national state of emergency AND will NOT publicly request emergency military reinforcement from any external partner (Russia/Africa Corps successor, neighboring state, or the African Union) within 60 days of the late-April 2026 coordinated attacks.
  • pred-2026-05-09-377 At least one qualifying event will occur between 2026-05-09 and 2026-05-16: Russia formally announcing a new operational phase or mandatory mobilization expansion, OR Ukraine conducting a publicized cross-border strategic strike on Russian territory.

• labyrinthine governance and tariff-regime illegibility

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  • pred-2026-04-23-289 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP growth (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized real growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized.

• labyrinthine hierarchy

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  • pred-2026-04-22-279 None of the three formal challenge triggers materialize by May 6, 2026: no cabinet-level resignation directly linked to the Robbins/diplomatic-job revelations, no formal Labour leadership nomination letter signed by 20+ MPs, and no government defeat on a Commons confidence-adjacent motion.

• labyrinthine hierarchy / cartographic advantage (ofac route-knowledge as activation-energy asymmetry)

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  • pred-2026-04-23-291 By May 7, 2026, the US government will announce at least one of the following: (1) formal new OFAC/Treasury sanctions specifically naming IRGC naval units involved in the seizure, (2) deployment orders for an additional carrier strike group to the Arabian Sea or Gulf of Oman, or (3) a direct diplomatic channel opening resulting in the seized vessel's release — with Option 1 as the primary mechanism at ≥75% internal probability.

• labyrinthine-administration

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  • pred-2026-05-03-344 The UK government will NOT formally declare an energy emergency or extend mandatory energy rationing beyond the existing airline cancellation order by 2026-05-17; energy management will proceed through escalating sector-specific administrative orders while preserving market governance architecture.

• labyrinthization

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  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper

• lagging indicator problem

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  • pred-2026-05-01-334 The April 2026 US nonfarm payrolls report (released May 2, 2026) will show net job creation above 150,000, with the headline number in the 160,000–195,000 range, sustained by BLS birth-death model contributions, post-pandemic labor-hoarding norms, and service-sector insulation from goods-sector tariff disruption — despite real underlying deterioration in job quality and a demand-side headwind from tariff-induced income compression and Iran war fiscal lag

• lagging-indicator

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  • pred-2026-03-28-139 The US March 2026 non-farm payrolls report (released April 3, 2026) will show job gains BELOW 150,000, while the unemployment rate holds at or below 4.2% — producing a split resolution where employment growth disappoints but the headline unemployment rate appears stable due to labor-supply contraction rather than demand recovery.

• laicity

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  • pred-2026-03-23-083 The Supreme Court of Canada will neither issue a substantive ruling striking down nor grant leave to appeal in a manner that substantially limits Quebec's Bill 21 (Act Respecting the Laicity of the State) before May 18, 2026.

• layering over replacement

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  • pred-2026-05-02-338 The UK government will NOT table formal legislation, issue statutory guidance under existing public order powers, or announce an executive restriction specifically targeting categories of pro-Palestine protests by 2026-05-16. Starmer's government will sustain a rhetorical threat posture while confining actual operational restriction to case-by-case police conditions under existing Public Order Act authority, preserving categorical deniability.

• learning-lag legitimation window

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  • pred-2026-04-13-231 By April 26, 2026, at least 3 G7 members beyond the UK will issue formal, public governmental statements declining to participate in the US Hormuz blockade — most likely Germany, Japan, and France.

• lebanon exclusion membrane

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  • pred-2026-04-09-189 By April 22, 2026, neither the United States nor Iran will publicly announce withdrawal, suspension, or termination of the ceasefire framework — the formal diplomatic shell will remain intact despite ongoing sub-formal violations in Lebanon and continued unresolved terms in the 10-point plan.

• legislative bandwidth scarcity

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  • pred-2026-03-25-107 The UK government's proposed ban on cryptocurrency political donations will pass second reading in the House of Commons by 15 May 2026.

• legislative liquidity preference

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  • pred-2026-05-12-399 No US Congressional committee will hold formal hearings specifically on an Iran AUMF authorization or advance an emergency supplemental appropriations bill specifically for Iran military operations to floor vote by June 23, 2026; any Congressional activity will be limited to non-binding oversight measures (press releases, informal briefings, or non-binding resolutions introduced but not voted).

• legislative minority constraint

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  • pred-2026-04-10-203 By May 22, 2026, neither qualifying formal response will materialize: Beijing will not issue a state-level formal policy statement explicitly upgrading cross-strait engagement terms, and the DPP will not formally prohibit or legally constrain opposition cross-strait diplomatic contact through legislation or enforceable executive order.

• legitimacy contagion

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  • pred-2026-04-27-330 At least one G7 economy other than Canada will formally announce a new sovereign wealth fund or a qualifying expansion (>$10bn USD equivalent) of an existing public investment vehicle by 2026-06-22.

• legitimacy crisis management through ideological apparatus

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  • pred-2026-05-13-400 The UK King's Speech, if delivered by 2026-05-27, will include at least one piece of primary legislation explicitly targeting NHS waiting-list reduction or housing supply as a named headline domestic bill — not merely a white paper, green paper, or regulatory commitment.

• legitimacy transfer through service-provision failure

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  • pred-2026-04-08-185 Lebanon will experience at least one of: (a) formal government collapse with failure to form a replacement within 30 days, (b) resumption of large-scale armed conflict involving at least one non-state actor and Lebanese state forces with >50 combat deaths in a single week, or (c) internationally recognized de facto territorial partition acknowledged by 3+ UN Security Council members — by October 8, 2026.

• legitimation apparatus

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  • pred-2026-04-17-237 Hungary's post-Orbán government will NOT produce a formal public commitment to EU rule-of-law reforms sufficient for the European Commission to announce a disbursement schedule for the frozen €35bn within 14 days of 2026-04-17 (by 2026-05-01). The Hungarian government will likely signal commitment within this window; the Commission disbursement schedule announcement will not follow within it.

• legitimation circuit

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  • pred-2026-04-12-221 The Orthodox Easter ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine will hold at the formal threshold through April 20, 2026 — neither side will formally announce a breakdown NOR execute verified large-scale coordinated offensive operations — while tactical violations continue below the threshold of acknowledged defection.

• legitimation deficit

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  • pred-2026-04-26-320 In the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senedd, and English local elections, Labour's combined vote share in comparable contested areas falls more than 5 percentage points below its 2024 general election baseline, as measured by Electoral Commission and council/Senedd/Holyrood declared results by May 10, 2026.

• leopard 2 reversal (january 2023): 6-8 week compliance under us pressure with face-saving simultaneity — closest structural parallel

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  • pred-2026-05-03-345 By 2026-06-14, the German government will formally announce a substantial modification to its troop reduction decision — defined as an implementation pause, supplementary force commitment, or ministerial reframing that functionally conditions or negates the original reduction — in response to combined US Republican pressure and Russian border signaling. A clean formal retraction is not required; a face-saving reformulation that satisfies allied stakeholders counts as YES.

• lesser-evil electoral logic

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  • pred-2026-04-24-301 The Liberal Party of Canada under Mark Carney will win enough seats on April 28, 2026 to form government (minority or majority), and Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party will fail to form government.

• liberation day as institutional speech act and credibility-commitment

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  • pred-2026-03-26-109 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include a publicly stated blanket tariff rate of 10% or higher on EU goods in non-automotive, non-steel sectors, confirmed in official White House or Federal Register communication on or before April 4, 2026.

• libertarian-fiscal defection

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  • pred-2026-05-01-336 Congress will not advance any war powers resolution, supplemental appropriations bill, or defunding amendment specifically addressing the Iran military operation to a committee vote by June 26, 2026.

• liquidation-of-malinvestment

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  • pred-2026-05-04-348 By June 15, 2026 (six weeks after Mélenchon's announcement), at least one of PS, PCF, or EELV will have issued a formal public statement — via party leadership, national bureau, or official spokesperson — either endorsing Mélenchon's candidacy or explicitly opposing it / demanding a negotiated primary process.

• liquidity preference

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  • pred-2026-03-25-099 The US February 2026 core PCE price index (year-over-year) will print at or above 2.6% when released on March 28, 2026
  • pred-2026-03-26-115 The February 2026 PCE price index (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.8% year-over-year.
  • pred-2026-03-28-141 No publicly announced meeting, de-escalation framework, or formal diplomatic signal between the US and Iran will emerge from Pakistan's mediation by April 11, 2026; back-channel activity will continue but remain below the public announcement threshold.
  • pred-2026-04-08-175 The first round of US-Iran talks in Islamabad (approximately April 11–15, 2026) will NOT produce a publicly announced joint communiqué, agreed negotiating framework, or explicit agenda document for nuclear/sanctions discussions by April 15, 2026. The publicly observable outcome will be, at most, a vague procedural statement ('constructive atmosphere; parties agreed to continue') that avoids committing either side to a specific agenda, timeline, or negotiating framework.
  • pred-2026-04-12-221 The Orthodox Easter ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine will hold at the formal threshold through April 20, 2026 — neither side will formally announce a breakdown NOR execute verified large-scale coordinated offensive operations — while tactical violations continue below the threshold of acknowledged defection.
  • pred-2026-04-19-257 By June 14, 2026 (within 8 weeks of the Australia-Japan $7bn warships deal signed April 2026), at least one formal multilateral security announcement — an AUKUS addendum, QUAD joint statement, or trilateral Australia-Japan-US operational agreement — will be publicly issued that explicitly cites China, North Korea, or Indo-Pacific deterrence as the security rationale.
  • pred-2026-04-22-287 No written framework, parameters document, or joint statement of principles on US-Iran nuclear de-escalation will be jointly announced by June 15, 2026; talks will remain in procedural or exploratory contact phase at best
  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.
  • pred-2026-04-25-313 US and Iranian envoys will NOT jointly release a written framework document — communiqué, statement of principles, or agreed enrichment parameters — by 2026-05-09, the 14-day window following expected talk commencement around 2026-05-02. Talks will produce at most a procedural signal (agreement to continue, 'constructive atmosphere' language) without a jointly signed or jointly attributed text encoding substantive commitments.
  • pred-2026-05-06-358 Brent crude oil futures will NOT decline by more than 4% within 7 days of Trump's Project Freedom pause announcement (by May 13, 2026); expected drawdown is 1–3% before stabilization or partial reversal.
  • pred-2026-05-11-393 No formal no-confidence motion in Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader will be tabled by Labour MPs, and Starmer will not publicly announce his resignation as party leader, before July 6, 2026.

• liquidity preference (diplomatic)

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  • pred-2026-03-25-101 Pakistan-mediated US-Iran contacts will NOT produce a publicly announced bilateral meeting, formal ceasefire talks, or nuclear negotiation framework by April 30, 2026
  • pred-2026-04-27-326 A direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic contact will be publicly announced or confirmed before May 11, 2026, through any qualifying channel (formal bilateral statement, intermediary-confirmed back-channel via Oman, Russia, or Switzerland, or UN-corridor acknowledgment by any party to the exchange).

• liquidity preference (keynes)

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  • pred-2026-04-27-329 The United States and Iran will NOT issue any formal joint statement, agreed framework document, or publicly announced roadmap from their ongoing nuclear/sanctions diplomacy before May 11, 2026.

• liquidity preference (political capital)

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  • pred-2026-04-19-255 The UK 'Starmer cover-up' controversy will remain contained as a media/parliamentary questions event with no vote of no confidence, no formal police referral gaining institutional traction, and no statutory inquiry announcement by May 3, 2026.

• liquidity preference (strategic)

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  • pred-2026-04-26-321 Armed groups will NOT execute a sustained incursion into Bamako's urban core (inside the Boulevard ring road) within 8 weeks of the April 25, 2026 coordinated attacks near Bamako airport — perimeter and peri-urban pressure will continue and likely escalate, but the Boulevard threshold will not be crossed with forces operating inside the ring continuously for 48 hours or more.

• liquidity preference applied to diplomatic optionality

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  • pred-2026-04-18-243 No formal written ceasefire framework, interim nuclear deal, or jointly-acknowledged negotiating document will be publicly announced by both the US and Iran by May 2, 2026; the Oman channel will produce at most ambiguous unilateral statements or vague claims of 'constructive' progress

• liquidity preference dominance

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  • pred-2026-04-09-189 By April 22, 2026, neither the United States nor Iran will publicly announce withdrawal, suspension, or termination of the ceasefire framework — the formal diplomatic shell will remain intact despite ongoing sub-formal violations in Lebanon and continued unresolved terms in the 10-point plan.

• liquidity preference in diplomacy

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  • pred-2026-04-10-199 The US-Pakistan-Iran Islamabad talks will NOT produce a publicly announced, jointly attributed statement, framework agreement, or ceasefire extension mechanism by April 20, 2026. Any communiqué issued will be a unilateral Pakistani facilitation summary rather than a jointly signed or jointly attributed document.

• liquidity preference in diplomatic capital

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  • pred-2026-05-04-350 The UK government will NOT issue a formal diplomatic protest, summon the Israeli ambassador, or announce a policy review specifically citing the treatment of British Gaza flotilla activists requiring hospital care — within 14 days (by 2026-05-18). The government will issue at most a ministerial statement of 'serious concern' and request consular information through normal channels.

• liquidity preference in regulatory production

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  • pred-2026-04-07-167 No formal US government instrument — whether executive order, DoD directive, or binding interagency framework — explicitly delineating permitted versus prohibited uses of commercial AI systems in military and civilian government contexts will be issued by May 31, 2026; the Pentagon-Anthropic dispute will instead resolve through bilateral contract modification, informal DoD guidance, or non-binding working-group output that preserves administrative optionality.

• liquidity preference shift

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  • pred-2026-03-21-059 TTF natural gas spot prices will average above €55/MWh across the April 1–28, 2026 window, driven by Qatar LNG facility strike and sustained Gulf conflict disruption to spot cargo flows into Europe.

• liquidity preference surge

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  • pred-2026-04-26-323 The BLS April 2026 non-farm payrolls report (releasing approximately May 2, 2026) will show total payroll job creation below 100,000, reflecting a tariff-driven investment freeze and hiring slowdown.

• liquidity preference under fundamental uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-04-08-179 By June 1, 2026, the US-Iran diplomatic process will remain in purely renewable mode: no formal framework agreement, no sanctions relief roadmap, and no enrichment suspension protocol with binding verification architecture will have been produced. The process will generate at least two additional ceasefire extensions and at least one 'framework for talks' or 'principles' communiqué, each of which will itself be a renewable rather than stock instrument.
  • pred-2026-04-13-233 By June 7, 2026, at least one major Gulf sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA, or Kuwait KIA) will publicly announce a reduction in USD-denominated asset holdings or a new allocation to non-USD reserve assets.
  • pred-2026-04-19-253 The US-Pakistan-Iran diplomatic track will NOT produce a publicly announced tangible output — no joint communiqué, agreed framework, or confirmed next round of direct/indirect talks — by May 3, 2026; the ceiling outcome is an informal 'constructive discussions' readout below the threshold of tangible diplomatic product.
  • pred-2026-05-06-359 Iranian government officials will NOT issue any formal statement or diplomatic action officially indicating openness to negotiation over Hormuz transit access before May 20, 2026 (within 14 days of the Project Freedom pause announcement)
  • pred-2026-05-07-365 By May 21, 2026, Hezbollah will neither formally declare the 2024 Lebanon ceasefire void nor launch a single retaliatory barrage exceeding 50 projectiles toward northern Israel in response to the reported Beirut strike. Sub-threshold response (drone incursions, cross-border fire under 50 projectiles, diplomatic escalation through Iranian channels) is the expected equilibrium.
  • pred-2026-05-10-384 No direct Putin-Zelensky bilateral meeting will take place, nor will confirmed dates for such a meeting be publicly announced by both parties, by 2026-06-21

• liquidity preference under knightian uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-03-28-143 Neither a binding UNSC humanitarian access resolution (or emergency framework) specifically for Lebanon nor a formal Lebanese government Chapter VII request will be adopted or lodged by May 15, 2026. The UNSC output will be limited to non-binding language, presidential statements, or renewed UNIFIL mandate discussions.
  • pred-2026-04-07-171 The US and Iran will NOT produce any written diplomatic framework, joint communiqué, or publicly announced schedule for direct negotiations by April 21, 2026 — at most a procedural readout noting talks occurred.
  • pred-2026-04-11-205 Iran will not issue a formal public statement explicitly confirming participation in a second round of US-Iran diplomatic talks by April 25, 2026, instead maintaining strategic ambiguity through hedged ministerial language while backchannel engagement continues.
  • pred-2026-04-20-259 The Lebanon-Israel direct talks on April 24, 2026 will end without a written joint communiqué, agreed withdrawal timeline, or formal security framework within 14 days (by May 4, 2026); the most probable outcome is a procedural statement affirming 'constructive dialogue' and scheduling a follow-on session, with no binding deliverable.
  • pred-2026-04-21-269 Iraq's Council of Representatives will NOT formally confirm a new Prime Minister by June 7, 2026; the political vacancy will extend past that date, with at most a caretaker or placeholder nomination occurring within the 7-week window.
  • pred-2026-05-02-339 Iran will not conduct a significant escalation of Hormuz commercial shipping disruption — defined as three or more vessel seizures in a 30-day window, a formally declared exclusion zone, or a mine-laying operation targeting commercial traffic — between May 2 and June 15, 2026.

• liquidity preference under radical uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-03-22-069 Iran will NOT formally suspend IAEA inspector access nor announce NPT withdrawal within 14 days of the Natanz strike — i.e., no formal suspension order or NPT withdrawal notice will be issued by 2026-04-05. Iran will instead escalate within the framework: accelerated enrichment, reduced inspector access, expulsion of specific personnel, and declaratory threats, while preserving formal treaty membership.

• liquidity-preference

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  • pred-2026-05-10-385 Keir Starmer will neither face a formal no-confidence motion from within the Parliamentary Labour Party (requiring ≥82 MP signatures) nor publicly announce his resignation before 2026-05-24.

• lng supply chain dependency

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  • pred-2026-03-24-095 TTF natural gas front-month spot price will close above €75/MWh on at least 6 of the 15 trading sessions from March 25 to April 14, 2026, reflecting sustained price elevation from the combined QatarEnergy LNG force majeure and Hormuz disruption shock.

• major questions doctrine as path-dependent anti-delegation norm

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  • pred-2026-05-09-380 The Trump administration will secure a judicial emergency stay (from the circuit court, SCOTUS, or both) reinstating the 10% global tariff regime by May 23, 2026 — within 14 days of the Court of International Trade ruling striking it down.

• malinvestment

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  • pred-2026-03-23-079 The Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE price index at or above 2.8% year-over-year when data releases on or around March 28, 2026.
  • pred-2026-03-27-131 At least one of BYD, NIO, Li Auto, or XPENG will publicly announce production cuts, factory suspensions, or workforce reductions by 2026-05-08 (6 weeks from 2026-03-27), as domestic margin compression from the ongoing price war renders expansion uneconomical.
  • pred-2026-03-29-147 The US Department of Defense (via CENTCOM) will publicly confirm at least one new offensive airstrike against Houthi military infrastructure in Yemen between 2026-03-29 and 2026-04-05, citing the Houthi opening of a new operational front.
  • pred-2026-04-13-229 Brent crude oil will close above $100/barrel on at least 4 of the 5 trading days from April 14–18, 2026, given the announced US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
  • pred-2026-04-22-287 No written framework, parameters document, or joint statement of principles on US-Iran nuclear de-escalation will be jointly announced by June 15, 2026; talks will remain in procedural or exploratory contact phase at best

• malinvestment acknowledgment cost

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  • pred-2026-05-09-378 The United States will not issue formal sanctions, invoke Article 4 NATO consultation, or publicly demand arms control compliance from Turkey regarding its announced ICBM program by 2026-06-20. Washington will respond at most via private diplomatic channels, rhetorical 'serious concern' statements, and possibly bilateral dialogue framing — all falling short of institutionally formalized action.

• malinvestment adjustment cost

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  • pred-2026-05-11-388 The US CPI release on approximately May 12-14, 2026 (measuring April 2026 price levels) will show headline year-over-year inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating that tariff pass-through has cleared the institutional absorption buffers within 8-10 weeks of the April 2026 tariff escalation.

• malinvestment bubble

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  • pred-2026-05-11-393 No formal no-confidence motion in Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader will be tabled by Labour MPs, and Starmer will not publicly announce his resignation as party leader, before July 6, 2026.

• malinvestment cluster

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  • pred-2026-04-22-283 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show negative real GDP growth (annualized rate below 0%), likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by a net exports collapse from pre-tariff import front-loading.

• malinvestment clusters and concentrated-interest asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-05-09-380 The Trump administration will secure a judicial emergency stay (from the circuit court, SCOTUS, or both) reinstating the 10% global tariff regime by May 23, 2026 — within 14 days of the Court of International Trade ruling striking it down.

• malinvestment correction

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  • pred-2026-03-23-087 The UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will announce welfare and/or disability benefit cuts or eligibility restrictions formally projected to save £5bn or more annually, with PIP eligibility tightening and/or UC work-capability conditionality intensification as the primary mechanism.
  • pred-2026-05-05-355 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, AND the post-meeting statement and Powell press conference will not signal that a rate cut is imminent (i.e., will not pre-commit to or strongly imply a June 2026 cut, defined as no shift to >70% market-implied probability of June cut immediately post-conference).
  • pred-2026-05-08-375 Keir Starmer will remain Labour Party leader on June 30, 2026, with no formal leadership confidence vote having been triggered at any point between May 8 and June 30, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-11-391 Brent crude oil spot price will NOT breach $95 per barrel on any trading day close between May 12 and May 18, 2026, despite the confirmed Strait of Hormuz cargo ship attack at Day 71+ of escalation — a spike of $4–8 intraday is plausible but sustained closes above $95 are not.

• malinvestment correction lag

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  • pred-2026-03-18-025 The March 2026 FOMC Summary of Economic Projections will show the median 2026 rate-cut projection at 2 or fewer cuts (a downward revision from December's 3-cut median); Powell will use energy-supply-uncertainty language that gestures at Hormuz without explicit naming. The OR compound resolves TRUE primarily through the dot-plot pathway, with explicit Hormuz citation being the uncertain secondary condition.

• malinvestment cycle

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  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.
  • pred-2026-05-07-364 Labour will lose net control of at least 3 councils and at least 150 council seats in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, confirming a major Reform/Green pincer surge.
  • pred-2026-05-07-369 By June 18, 2026, Israel will formally announce and initiate a large-scale ground military operation explicitly described by the Israeli military as decisive or final-phase, targeting remaining Hamas governance structures in Rafah or northern Gaza, operationally distinct from current targeted raids.
  • pred-2026-05-09-377 At least one qualifying event will occur between 2026-05-09 and 2026-05-16: Russia formally announcing a new operational phase or mandatory mobilization expansion, OR Ukraine conducting a publicized cross-border strategic strike on Russian territory.

• malinvestment deepening

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  • pred-2026-05-08-372 The United States will not conduct direct kinetic strikes on Iranian territory or Iranian military installations inside Iran by June 30, 2026; any kinetic response will remain outside Iranian borders — targeting Iranian naval vessels or oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, or Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria, or Yemen.

• malinvestment distortion

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  • pred-2026-04-24-311 No Russian warships will be permanently stationed at, and no Russian troops will be based at, Indian military facilities under the April 2026 Russia-India pact by June 19, 2026; the pact will remain a declaratory framework without operational basing. Transient port calls or joint exercises, if they occur, do not constitute falsification.

• malinvestment exposure

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  • pred-2026-03-24-091 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast downward by at least 0.5 percentage points from its Autumn 2025 Statement projection in the Spring Statement 2026 fiscal event on March 26, 2026.

• malinvestment in confrontation architecture

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  • pred-2026-03-17-017 No publicly announced US-China presidential summit or scheduled Xi-Trump direct bilateral communication will be made by May 1, 2026. The relationship will remain in managed-tension equilibrium with back-channel activity but no formal announcement.

• malinvestment in diplomatic capital

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  • pred-2026-05-11-392 The United States and China will not publicly issue a joint statement, framework, or communiqué specifically addressing the Iran-Hormuz crisis before May 25, 2026; any diplomatic output from Trump-Xi Iran talks will take the form of separate unilateral readouts with convergent but not jointly authored language.

• malinvestment in escalatory rhetoric

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  • pred-2026-04-07-163 By April 14, 2026, the Pakistan-brokered US-Iran diplomatic channel will produce at least one publicly announced output — framework agreement, joint communiqué, ceasefire proposal, or confirmed follow-on talks — rather than a US military strike order or announced total diplomatic collapse with no scheduled continuation.

• malinvestment in evasion infrastructure

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  • pred-2026-04-08-179 By June 1, 2026, the US-Iran diplomatic process will remain in purely renewable mode: no formal framework agreement, no sanctions relief roadmap, and no enrichment suspension protocol with binding verification architecture will have been produced. The process will generate at least two additional ceasefire extensions and at least one 'framework for talks' or 'principles' communiqué, each of which will itself be a renewable rather than stock instrument.

• malinvestment in formal commitment

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  • pred-2026-04-10-203 By May 22, 2026, neither qualifying formal response will materialize: Beijing will not issue a state-level formal policy statement explicitly upgrading cross-strait engagement terms, and the DPP will not formally prohibit or legally constrain opposition cross-strait diplomatic contact through legislation or enforceable executive order.

• malinvestment in sanctions-adaptation infrastructure

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  • pred-2026-04-24-305 US-Iran nuclear and sanctions negotiations will NOT produce a publicly acknowledged written framework or agreement-in-principle document by May 31, 2026. Talks will continue in back-channel form; any visible output will be verbal acknowledgments of 'progress' rather than a signed or jointly circulated text.

• malinvestment legacy and spare capacity deficit

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  • pred-2026-03-16-007 Brent crude oil will close above $95/barrel on at least 7 of the 10 trading days spanning March 17–28, 2026, given ongoing US-Israeli strikes on Iran and continued selective Hormuz passage

• malinvestment liquidation

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  • pred-2026-03-16-011 Tanker transit volume through the Strait of Hormuz will remain at least 40% below pre-conflict baseline through June 30, 2026, with durable rerouting of Gulf crude exports toward alternative corridors (Saudi East-West Pipeline, UAE Fujairah) becoming structurally embedded regardless of formal closure status.
  • pred-2026-03-21-061 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (expected March 26, 2026), down from the October 2025 forecast of approximately 1.6%.
  • pred-2026-03-21-063 The February 2026 US core PCE price index will print at or above 2.5% year-over-year when released on or around March 28, 2026, sustaining the Fed's pause posture and contradicting near-term market rate-cut pricing.
  • pred-2026-03-22-073 The OBR's Spring Statement 2026 forecast will project UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 at or below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Statement projection of approximately 1.6–1.7%.
  • pred-2026-03-22-075 The BEA will report US February 2026 PCE price index year-over-year at or above 2.6% when released in the final week of March 2026.
  • pred-2026-03-27-129 The BEA's February 2026 PCE release (~2026-03-28) will show core PCE year-over-year at or above 2.5%, AND at least one Federal Reserve official will issue a public statement within 48 hours of the release maintaining a data-dependent pause on rate cuts.
  • pred-2026-03-29-145 The US ISM Manufacturing PMI for March 2026 will print below 48.0 upon release circa April 1, 2026, confirming manufacturing contraction consistent with compound tariff escalation and Hormuz-driven energy cost pass-through into manufacturing inputs.
  • pred-2026-03-29-153 The OBR's Spring Statement (March 31, 2026) will publish a UK 2026 GDP growth forecast strictly below 1.0%.
  • pred-2026-04-06-161 De facto majority halt of commercial Bab al-Mandeb transits—defined as sustained traffic at ≤50% of pre-October 2023 baseline due to voluntary rerouting and insurance market withdrawal—will persist through May 18, 2026, without requiring a formal Houthi closure declaration.
  • pred-2026-04-18-241 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 19, 2026 (released April 24) will come in at or above 225,000, reflecting cumulative disruption from tariff-driven layoffs, federal workforce reductions, and associated secondary demand contraction.
  • pred-2026-04-23-295 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no cut or hike in the post-meeting statement.
  • pred-2026-04-26-322 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following the April 29–30, 2026 FOMC meeting AND will not issue explicit forward guidance committing to a rate cut at the June 2026 meeting; the statement will use 'data dependent' and 'elevated uncertainty' language while deferring any June characterization.
  • pred-2026-04-26-324 Within six weeks of the confirmed Orbán coalition election defeat (by 2026-06-07), the Hungarian forint will depreciate more than 8% against the euro, measured from the EUR/HUF rate on the day of confirmed defeat.
  • pred-2026-04-27-325 The BEA's advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP (scheduled for release ~April 30, 2026) will show a negative quarter-on-quarter annualized growth rate, i.e., real GDP contraction.
  • pred-2026-04-28-331 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show annualized real GDP growth below 1.0%, driven by a negative net-exports drag from tariff-anticipation import front-loading and suppressed gross private fixed investment from tariff-uncertainty-induced capital deferral.
  • pred-2026-05-03-341 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting AND issue a statement with hawkish or hold-biased forward guidance that explicitly declines to signal rate cuts in H1 2026, citing elevated inflation uncertainty from tariff pass-through and energy price pressure.
  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.
  • pred-2026-05-08-370 Labour will fail to retain the largest-party position in the Welsh Senedd following the May 2026 elections, ending its uninterrupted plurality since 1999; Plaid Cymru will emerge as the party with the most seats.

• malinvestment liquidation cycle

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  • pred-2026-04-27-328 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing no change to the target range.

• malinvestment liquidation from credit expansion

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  • pred-2026-04-26-319 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 GDP (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized quarter-over-quarter growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.5% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading statistical drag from tariff anticipation and compounded by capital investment deferral and fiscal contraction.

• malinvestment liquidation in credit-cycle trough

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  • pred-2026-03-19-045 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth projection below 1.5% in its Spring 2026 forecast published alongside the Spring Statement on or around March 26, 2026

• malinvestment liquidation timing

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  • pred-2026-04-25-315 The Lebanon ceasefire extended ~2026-04-21 will NOT collapse before its scheduled expiry (~2026-05-12) through a major Israeli ground operation launch or formal escalation declaration; instead it will reach expiry through incremental erosion, quiet non-renewal, or a brief additional extension.

• malinvestment lock-in

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  • pred-2026-03-22-069 Iran will NOT formally suspend IAEA inspector access nor announce NPT withdrawal within 14 days of the Natanz strike — i.e., no formal suspension order or NPT withdrawal notice will be issued by 2026-04-05. Iran will instead escalate within the framework: accelerated enrichment, reduced inspector access, expulsion of specific personnel, and declaratory threats, while preserving formal treaty membership.
  • pred-2026-04-21-267 By May 5, 2026, neither the US nor Iran will publicly acknowledge the reported Islamabad back-channel talks through any jointly recognized framework, agreed formal agenda, or confirmed next-round meeting date; the public-denial/back-channel split will persist without official acknowledgment from either Tehran or Washington.

• malinvestment lock-in and path dependence

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  • pred-2026-05-08-371 The Trump administration will obtain an emergency appellate stay of the Court of International Trade ruling invalidating the 10% global baseline tariffs within 14 days of that ruling (by May 21, 2026), keeping the tariffs operationally in force pending full appellate review.

• malinvestment of political capital

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  • pred-2026-04-27-329 The United States and Iran will NOT issue any formal joint statement, agreed framework document, or publicly announced roadmap from their ongoing nuclear/sanctions diplomacy before May 11, 2026.

• malinvestment path-dependence

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  • pred-2026-03-26-113 The United States and Iran will NOT publicly announce the opening of formal direct bilateral nuclear negotiations on or before May 15, 2026; back-channel or third-party mediation activity may intensify but will not produce a jointly acknowledged formal bilateral announcement within this window.

• malinvestment persistence via external subsidies

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  • pred-2026-05-10-384 No direct Putin-Zelensky bilateral meeting will take place, nor will confirmed dates for such a meeting be publicly announced by both parties, by 2026-06-21

• malinvestment pressure

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  • pred-2026-03-17-023 The United States will NOT execute or publicly authorize direct military strikes on Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026. Proxy-level operations, Iranian-controlled external asset targeting (IRGC positions in Syria/Iraq, Houthi infrastructure), and covert harassment will remain the dominant pressure mode. No White House or DoD public authorization of strikes framed as targeting Iran itself.

• malinvestment restructuring

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  • pred-2026-05-07-368 The US April 2026 CPI report (released approximately May 13-14) will show year-over-year headline inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating meaningful tariff-driven pass-through to consumer goods prices.

• malinvestment revelation

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  • pred-2026-03-29-149 HM Government will formally announce at least two material privatization initiatives — including NHS trust transfers, public utility stake disposals, public land sales, infrastructure fund transfers, or functionally equivalent arm's-length asset transfers denominated as fiscal consolidation measures — by 2026-12-31, even if not labeled 'privatization' in ministerial statements.
  • pred-2026-04-11-215 By June 6, 2026, at least one NATO member state will formally request renegotiation of US military base access terms or publicly announce an official government review of existing basing agreements, explicitly citing Atlantic realignment dynamics, reduced US credibility, or the Iran crisis as justification.
  • pred-2026-04-26-323 The BLS April 2026 non-farm payrolls report (releasing approximately May 2, 2026) will show total payroll job creation below 100,000, reflecting a tariff-driven investment freeze and hiring slowdown.

• malinvestment subsidy

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  • pred-2026-03-17-021 No publicly announced operative agreement (ceasefire extension, hostage deal, or binding framework document with operational parameters) will emerge from the Cairo talks by March 28, 2026. Any public statement issued will be a procedural communiqué or vague progress declaration without binding commitments on ceasefire duration, hostage releases, or withdrawal timelines.

• malinvestment substrate

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  • pred-2026-03-25-099 The US February 2026 core PCE price index (year-over-year) will print at or above 2.6% when released on March 28, 2026

• malinvestment unraveling

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  • pred-2026-04-12-223 The Hungarian opposition coalition led by TISZA will fail to deny Fidesz its parliamentary supermajority (≥133 seats) in the April 2026 elections — Fidesz will retain constitutional amendment capacity.

• malinvestment via diplomatic credit

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  • pred-2026-04-20-259 The Lebanon-Israel direct talks on April 24, 2026 will end without a written joint communiqué, agreed withdrawal timeline, or formal security framework within 14 days (by May 4, 2026); the most probable outcome is a procedural statement affirming 'constructive dialogue' and scheduling a follow-on session, with no binding deliverable.

• malinvestment write-off coalition

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  • pred-2026-04-17-239 The UK government will NOT table formal primary legislation nor sign a provisional framework agreement adopting EU single market rules by 2026-05-30; the most likely outcome is a political declaration, joint working group, or scoping statement that falls short of binding regulatory commitments.

• malinvestment-correction deferral

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  • pred-2026-04-24-301 The Liberal Party of Canada under Mark Carney will win enough seats on April 28, 2026 to form government (minority or majority), and Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party will fail to form government.

• malinvestment-correction-lag

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  • pred-2026-05-10-385 Keir Starmer will neither face a formal no-confidence motion from within the Parliamentary Labour Party (requiring ≥82 MP signatures) nor publicly announce his resignation before 2026-05-24.

• malinvestment-in-credibility

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  • pred-2026-03-23-081 By April 6, 2026, at least one publicly confirmed instance of direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic communication will occur — through the Omani channel, a UN interlocutor, or an official statement from any party acknowledging that talks are underway — as opposed to continued public escalation or formal rejection of negotiations on all fronts.

• malinvestment-liquidation

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  • pred-2026-03-17-019 The Bank of England MPC will hold the Bank Rate at 4.5% at its March 19-20 meeting, with a vote split of at least 7-2 (hold-cut), meaning 2 or more members dissent in favor of a 25bp cut.
  • pred-2026-03-20-049 February 2026 core PCE inflation (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.7% year-over-year, exceeding the January reading and the Fed's December SEP projection of 2.6%.
  • pred-2026-03-28-139 The US March 2026 non-farm payrolls report (released April 3, 2026) will show job gains BELOW 150,000, while the unemployment rate holds at or below 4.2% — producing a split resolution where employment growth disappoints but the headline unemployment rate appears stable due to labor-supply contraction rather than demand recovery.

• malinvestment-revelation

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  • pred-2026-03-18-027 The Eurozone composite flash PMI for March 2026 will print below 49.0, signaling economic contraction, with the manufacturing sub-index leading at 46–47 and services dragging the composite to approximately 48.2–48.8.

• managed-conflict equilibrium

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  • pred-2026-04-27-329 The United States and Iran will NOT issue any formal joint statement, agreed framework document, or publicly announced roadmap from their ongoing nuclear/sanctions diplomacy before May 11, 2026.

• managed-dissent absorption

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  • pred-2026-05-04-350 The UK government will NOT issue a formal diplomatic protest, summon the Israeli ambassador, or announce a policy review specifically citing the treatment of British Gaza flotilla activists requiring hospital care — within 14 days (by 2026-05-18). The government will issue at most a ministerial statement of 'serious concern' and request consular information through normal channels.

• mandate seigniorage

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  • pred-2026-04-08-181 The US-Iran ceasefire will hold through April 22, 2026, without either US or Iranian forces conducting offensive strikes against each other's assets or proxies at brigade scale or above; sub-threshold proxy incidents will occur but will not trigger principal-level escalation.
  • pred-2026-04-09-189 By April 22, 2026, neither the United States nor Iran will publicly announce withdrawal, suspension, or termination of the ceasefire framework — the formal diplomatic shell will remain intact despite ongoing sub-formal violations in Lebanon and continued unresolved terms in the 10-point plan.
  • pred-2026-04-09-191 By June 4, 2026, at least 3 US states (most likely from NY, CA, MA, IL, CO, or WA) will publicly announce or formally launch corporate securities enforcement actions or new regulatory frameworks explicitly framed in official communications — press releases, legislative testimony, or formal AG statements — as filling the enforcement vacuum created by the SEC chair's withdrawal from corporate policing.

• mandate seigniorage / governance pidgin

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  • pred-2026-04-08-185 Lebanon will experience at least one of: (a) formal government collapse with failure to form a replacement within 30 days, (b) resumption of large-scale armed conflict involving at least one non-state actor and Lebanese state forces with >50 combat deaths in a single week, or (c) internationally recognized de facto territorial partition acknowledged by 3+ UN Security Council members — by October 8, 2026.

• mandatory storage demand floor

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  • pred-2026-03-21-059 TTF natural gas spot prices will average above €55/MWh across the April 1–28, 2026 window, driven by Qatar LNG facility strike and sustained Gulf conflict disruption to spot cargo flows into Europe.

• manifold

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  • Chart-Preservation: Parliamentary Adaptation on a Political Manifold

• march

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  • pred-2026-03-26-001 By October 31, 2026, the US-Iran military escalation will produce a formal Congressional war-powers vote (AUMF, War Powers Resolution, or binding constraint on Iranian military operations in at least one chamber), in which the standard partisan alignment permutes: at least 5 Republican House members or 2 Republican Senators will vote to constrain executive military authority against Iran, driven by the economic consequences of Strait of Hormuz disruption and energy price transmission to their constituents.

• margin absorption exhaustion

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  • pred-2026-05-05-356 The BLS April 2026 CPI report (~May 13 release) will show headline YoY inflation at or above 3.5%, consistent with measurable tariff pass-through crossing that threshold in the April measurement window.

• marginal efficiency of capital

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  • pred-2026-04-26-323 The BLS April 2026 non-farm payrolls report (releasing approximately May 2, 2026) will show total payroll job creation below 100,000, reflecting a tariff-driven investment freeze and hiring slowdown.

• marginal propensity to consume

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  • pred-2026-05-10-387 The House Agriculture Committee will approve a reconciliation markup including SNAP spending reductions and/or new or expanded work requirements before 2026-06-30, with eligibility restrictions (categorical eligibility elimination, ABAWD expansion, or BBCE elimination) carrying the primary fiscal scoring weight alongside work requirement language.

• marginal value depreciation

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  • pred-2026-04-11-215 By June 6, 2026, at least one NATO member state will formally request renegotiation of US military base access terms or publicly announce an official government review of existing basing agreements, explicitly citing Atlantic realignment dynamics, reduced US credibility, or the Iran crisis as justification.

• maritime commons free-rider problem

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  • pred-2026-05-07-366 By June 30, 2026, China will NOT formally announce a bilateral or multilateral diplomatic initiative — hosted talks, ceasefire proposal, or maritime security framework — for the Hormuz standoff; Beijing will conduct back-channel mediation and issue rhetorical calls for dialogue through SCO/BRI venues but will not make a public, attributable formal commitment to a resolution process.

• mark-up pricing

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  • pred-2026-04-08-177 The March 2026 US headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released during the week of April 7–11, 2026, driven by tariff pass-through in goods categories and embedded energy cost from the pre-ceasefire Iran-Hormuz disruption.
  • pred-2026-04-08-183 US March 2026 headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released approximately April 10, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-07-368 The US April 2026 CPI report (released approximately May 13-14) will show year-over-year headline inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating meaningful tariff-driven pass-through to consumer goods prices.

• market price as leading indicator of institutional revision

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  • pred-2026-03-19-045 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth projection below 1.5% in its Spring 2026 forecast published alongside the Spring Statement on or around March 26, 2026

• market-self-adjustment

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  • pred-2026-05-03-344 The UK government will NOT formally declare an energy emergency or extend mandatory energy rationing beyond the existing airline cancellation order by 2026-05-17; energy management will proceed through escalating sector-specific administrative orders while preserving market governance architecture.

• markup pricing

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  • pred-2026-03-23-079 The Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE price index at or above 2.8% year-over-year when data releases on or around March 28, 2026.
  • pred-2026-03-25-099 The US February 2026 core PCE price index (year-over-year) will print at or above 2.6% when released on March 28, 2026
  • pred-2026-04-09-187 March 2026 US CPI (all items, year-over-year) prints at or above 3.0% when released approximately April 10–11, 2026.

• mean-reversion from shock-acquired institutional holdings

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  • pred-2026-05-05-352 Labour will lose net control of 4 or more councils in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, AND Keir Starmer's government will issue a public reset or course-correction statement (press conference, policy announcement, or explicit reframing of government direction) within 72 hours of results being declared, by approximately May 11, 2026.

• means-test

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  • The Spontaneous Cartel: Network Effects as Means-Testing Without an Examiner
  • pred-2026-03-17-001 By December 2026, the US federal government will have imposed behavioral or work-activity requirements as a condition of Medicaid eligibility for non-disabled, non-elderly adults, either through provisions in the FY2026 budget reconciliation bill or through CMS approval of at least 8 new state Section 1115 waivers mandating 'community engagement' (work, job training, or volunteering) as a condition of continued Medicaid coverage. The framing of these requirements will be primarily intentional — emphasizing personal responsibility, self-sufficiency, and willingness to improve — rather than purely fiscal, marking the structural shift of the means-test from material-condition assessment to intention-assessment.

• means-testing

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  • pred-2026-03-27-121 The UK Spring Statement (delivered by 2026-03-31) will announce net reductions in working-age welfare benefit expenditure — framed as means-testing reforms, conditionality tightening, or efficiency measures — totalling at least £1 billion annually on OBR scoring.

• means-testing as individuating technology

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  • pred-2026-03-23-087 The UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will announce welfare and/or disability benefit cuts or eligibility restrictions formally projected to save £5bn or more annually, with PIP eligibility tightening and/or UC work-capability conditionality intensification as the primary mechanism.

• measurement convention lag

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  • pred-2026-03-22-067 The BEA's February 2026 core PCE price index release (~March 28, 2026) will show core PCE inflation at or above 2.8% year-over-year.

• measurement institution artifact

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  • pred-2026-04-25-316 The BEA advance estimate released April 30, 2026 will show Q1 2026 real GDP growth as negative (below 0.0% annualized), with a point estimate in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading surge mechanically compressing the net-exports component and secondarily by consumer spending deceleration.

• measurement-apparatus-inertia

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  • pred-2026-03-26-111 The US Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE inflation (ex food and energy) at or above 2.7% year-over-year when released on March 28, 2026, materially complicating the FOMC's projected 2026 rate-cut path by causing a deferral of the anticipated June 2026 cut.

• measurement-crystallization

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  • pred-2026-05-09-001 The Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI report for April 2026 (all items, seasonally adjusted) will show a positive month-over-month change — i.e., the index will be higher than the March 2026 reading.

• media denomination vs. legal denomination

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  • pred-2026-04-19-255 The UK 'Starmer cover-up' controversy will remain contained as a media/parliamentary questions event with no vote of no confidence, no formal police referral gaining institutional traction, and no statutory inquiry announcement by May 3, 2026.

• mediator entrepreneurial incentive toward face-saving language

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  • pred-2026-04-22-277 No written framework agreement or formal joint communiqué committing both parties to continued structured negotiations will emerge from the current US-Iran talks before April 30, 2026; any public statement will be a unilateral declaration, verbal understanding, or silence — not a jointly-attributed written instrument with process commitments.

• mediator rent extraction

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  • pred-2026-03-29-155 No publicly announced interim agreement, confidence-building measure, or joint statement will emerge from the Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic track by April 30, 2026. Back-channel activity will continue, but the threshold of public announcement will not be crossed.

• mediator-credibility-threshold

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  • pred-2026-03-24-093 By April 7, 2026, no formal public confirmation of direct or Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic talks will be issued by official representatives of any of the three governments.

• memory

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  • The Anachronism Engine: How Permutation Operates on Memory to Convert Identity-Threat into Nostalgia

• menu-cost friction

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  • pred-2026-05-06-362 The BLS April 2026 CPI release (expected May 13–14, 2026) will show headline CPI year-over-year at or above 3.5%, driven by Hormuz-disruption gasoline price transmission into the consumer basket.

• mercosur constitutional constraint

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  • pred-2026-05-05-353 The Lula-Trump Washington meeting (week of May 5, 2026) will produce no formal bilateral trade instrument, explicit tariff-exemption commitment, or jointly signed framework document with operative trade language. The sole substantive output will be a ceremonial joint statement with non-binding aspirational language (e.g., 'exploring enhanced cooperation,' sector-level working groups) and no enforceable tariff provisions.

• meridian

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  • pred-2026-03-13-001 Initial jobless claims for the week ending March 15, 2026 (reported Thursday March 20, 2026) will remain below 235,000.

• meta-norm inversion

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  • pred-2026-04-23-295 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no cut or hike in the post-meeting statement.

• micc — military-industrial-congressional complex committee capture

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  • pred-2026-05-12-399 No US Congressional committee will hold formal hearings specifically on an Iran AUMF authorization or advance an emergency supplemental appropriations bill specifically for Iran military operations to floor vote by June 23, 2026; any Congressional activity will be limited to non-binding oversight measures (press releases, informal briefings, or non-binding resolutions introduced but not voted).

• military keynesianism

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  • pred-2026-05-01-334 The April 2026 US nonfarm payrolls report (released May 2, 2026) will show net job creation above 150,000, with the headline number in the 160,000–195,000 range, sustained by BLS birth-death model contributions, post-pandemic labor-hoarding norms, and service-sector insulation from goods-sector tariff disruption — despite real underlying deterioration in job quality and a demand-side headwind from tariff-induced income compression and Iran war fiscal lag
  • pred-2026-05-07-367 Putin's May 9, 2026 Victory Day address and surrounding official communications through May 14 will contain neither (a) a substantive unilateral ceasefire proposal with concrete operational terms directed at Ukraine or NATO, nor (b) a formal military escalation announcement such as a new mobilization wave, a new annexation declaration of territory beyond currently claimed oblasts, or an explicit expansion of formal war aims. The address will maintain existing war-justification framing with rhetorical intensification but no structural departure in either direction. If ceasefire-adjacent language appears, it will be encoded as performative diplomacy with conditions calibrated to fail (e.g., NATO withdrawal or no-membership guarantees) rather than a genuine diplomatic initiative.
  • pred-2026-05-08-372 The United States will not conduct direct kinetic strikes on Iranian territory or Iranian military installations inside Iran by June 30, 2026; any kinetic response will remain outside Iranian borders — targeting Iranian naval vessels or oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, or Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria, or Yemen.

• military keynesianism overheating

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  • pred-2026-05-09-377 At least one qualifying event will occur between 2026-05-09 and 2026-05-16: Russia formally announcing a new operational phase or mandatory mobilization expansion, OR Ukraine conducting a publicized cross-border strategic strike on Russian territory.

• military-industrial complex

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  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper

• military-keynesian constituency

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  • pred-2026-05-01-336 Congress will not advance any war powers resolution, supplemental appropriations bill, or defunding amendment specifically addressing the Iran military operation to a committee vote by June 26, 2026.

• military-keynesian surplus absorption

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  • pred-2026-05-05-354 By June 30, 2026, Germany will formally announce a multi-year defense spending pathway that explicitly meets or exceeds the NATO 2% GDP floor AND cites the Bundestag-approved Schuldenbremse exemption (or a supplementary fiscal act) as its legal-fiscal basis — rather than leaving the commitment as a vague political pledge or a government-only white paper without legislative backing.

• mimetic tariff escalation

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  • pred-2026-03-15-003 At least one major G7 economy will announce new import tariffs or domestic industrial subsidies in Q2-Q3 2026 (April–September 2026) explicitly framed as 'protecting workers,' 'industrial fairness,' or equivalent labor-solidarity language, where independent distributional analysis confirms the primary economic beneficiary is an upstream extractive or capital-intensive monopoly sector rather than the downstream labor force named in the announcement.

• minimum-viable parliamentary response

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  • pred-2026-05-04-350 The UK government will NOT issue a formal diplomatic protest, summon the Israeli ambassador, or announce a policy review specifically citing the treatment of British Gaza flotilla activists requiring hospital care — within 14 days (by 2026-05-18). The government will issue at most a ministerial statement of 'serious concern' and request consular information through normal channels.

• ministerial code enforcement vacuum

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  • pred-2026-04-22-279 None of the three formal challenge triggers materialize by May 6, 2026: no cabinet-level resignation directly linked to the Robbins/diplomatic-job revelations, no formal Labour leadership nomination letter signed by 20+ MPs, and no government defeat on a Commons confidence-adjacent motion.

• ministerial encryption

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  • pred-2026-04-17-239 The UK government will NOT table formal primary legislation nor sign a provisional framework agreement adopting EU single market rules by 2026-05-30; the most likely outcome is a political declaration, joint working group, or scoping statement that falls short of binding regulatory commitments.

• minsk-precedent

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  • pred-2026-05-09-379 Credible reports of resumed large-scale offensive operations by Russia or Ukraine will emerge before May 15, 2026, causing the ceasefire to collapse within or immediately following its stated 72-hour window.

• minsky asymmetric fragility

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  • pred-2026-03-23-089 No formal ceasefire agreement or publicly announced binding de-escalation framework between Iran and the United States will be announced by May 15, 2026, whether through Pakistan, Gulf-state, or direct mediation.

• minsky balance-sheet contraction

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  • pred-2026-03-18-033 The OBR forecast published at the UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will show UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Budget forecast

• minsky balance-sheet stress

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  • pred-2026-04-07-165 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 5, 2026 (released April 10, 2026) will come in BELOW 230,000, remaining consistent with pre-tariff baseline and within the structural lag window before tariff-shock displacement becomes visible in formal claims data.

• minsky buffer effect in diplomacy

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  • pred-2026-04-19-253 The US-Pakistan-Iran diplomatic track will NOT produce a publicly announced tangible output — no joint communiqué, agreed framework, or confirmed next round of direct/indirect talks — by May 3, 2026; the ceiling outcome is an informal 'constructive discussions' readout below the threshold of tangible diplomatic product.

• minsky cash-flow shock

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  • pred-2026-03-23-085 The April 2, 2026 'Liberation Day' reciprocal tariff announcement will include a universal baseline tariff of 10% or higher applied to all US imports regardless of country of origin.

• minsky cash-flow stress

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  • pred-2026-05-01-334 The April 2026 US nonfarm payrolls report (released May 2, 2026) will show net job creation above 150,000, with the headline number in the 160,000–195,000 range, sustained by BLS birth-death model contributions, post-pandemic labor-hoarding norms, and service-sector insulation from goods-sector tariff disruption — despite real underlying deterioration in job quality and a demand-side headwind from tariff-induced income compression and Iran war fiscal lag

• minsky channel

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  • pred-2026-04-26-323 The BLS April 2026 non-farm payrolls report (releasing approximately May 2, 2026) will show total payroll job creation below 100,000, reflecting a tariff-driven investment freeze and hiring slowdown.

• minsky collateral logic

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  • pred-2026-04-09-189 By April 22, 2026, neither the United States nor Iran will publicly announce withdrawal, suspension, or termination of the ceasefire framework — the formal diplomatic shell will remain intact despite ongoing sub-formal violations in Lebanon and continued unresolved terms in the 10-point plan.

• minsky confidence-stock destruction

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  • pred-2026-04-10-201 Commercial tanker passage through the Strait of Hormuz will recover to at least 60% of pre-conflict baseline traffic volumes by April 24, 2026, following ceasefire diplomacy.

• minsky cycle dissipation

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  • pred-2026-03-28-143 Neither a binding UNSC humanitarian access resolution (or emergency framework) specifically for Lebanon nor a formal Lebanese government Chapter VII request will be adopted or lodged by May 15, 2026. The UNSC output will be limited to non-binding language, presidential statements, or renewed UNIFIL mandate discussions.

• minsky discontinuity

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  • pred-2026-03-25-101 Pakistan-mediated US-Iran contacts will NOT produce a publicly announced bilateral meeting, formal ceasefire talks, or nuclear negotiation framework by April 30, 2026

• minsky displacement phase

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  • pred-2026-03-24-095 TTF natural gas front-month spot price will close above €75/MWh on at least 6 of the 15 trading sessions from March 25 to April 14, 2026, reflecting sustained price elevation from the combined QatarEnergy LNG force majeure and Hormuz disruption shock.

• minsky dynamics

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  • pred-2026-03-27-131 At least one of BYD, NIO, Li Auto, or XPENG will publicly announce production cuts, factory suspensions, or workforce reductions by 2026-05-08 (6 weeks from 2026-03-27), as domestic margin compression from the ongoing price war renders expansion uneconomical.

• minsky financial fragility

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  • pred-2026-03-24-091 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast downward by at least 0.5 percentage points from its Autumn 2025 Statement projection in the Spring Statement 2026 fiscal event on March 26, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-05-355 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, AND the post-meeting statement and Powell press conference will not signal that a rate cut is imminent (i.e., will not pre-commit to or strongly imply a June 2026 cut, defined as no shift to >70% market-implied probability of June cut immediately post-conference).

• minsky financial instability

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  • pred-2026-04-06-161 De facto majority halt of commercial Bab al-Mandeb transits—defined as sustained traffic at ≤50% of pre-October 2023 baseline due to voluntary rerouting and insurance market withdrawal—will persist through May 18, 2026, without requiring a formal Houthi closure declaration.
  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.
  • pred-2026-05-12-398 The UK government will NOT announce a formal emergency fiscal consolidation measure (unscheduled spending review, emergency budget statement, or explicit new multi-billion-pound spending cut commitment) by May 26, 2026; the government will instead deploy Chancellor statements reaffirming existing fiscal rules, coordinated Treasury-OBR messaging, and verbal commitments without concrete new cuts.

• minsky financial instability hypothesis

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  • pred-2026-04-13-233 By June 7, 2026, at least one major Gulf sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA, or Kuwait KIA) will publicly announce a reduction in USD-denominated asset holdings or a new allocation to non-USD reserve assets.

• minsky fragility

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  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper
  • pred-2026-04-19-251 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing a statement that acknowledges elevated tariff-driven inflation while citing heightened uncertainty as grounds for inaction.
  • pred-2026-04-24-307 The BEA advance estimate of Q1 2026 real GDP growth (released ~April 30, 2026) will show negative annualized growth — a technical contraction below 0% — driven primarily by a large negative net-exports contribution from pre-tariff import front-loading, compounded by suppressed fixed investment.
  • pred-2026-04-27-325 The BEA's advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP (scheduled for release ~April 30, 2026) will show a negative quarter-on-quarter annualized growth rate, i.e., real GDP contraction.
  • pred-2026-04-28-331 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show annualized real GDP growth below 1.0%, driven by a negative net-exports drag from tariff-anticipation import front-loading and suppressed gross private fixed investment from tariff-uncertainty-induced capital deferral.
  • pred-2026-05-01-335 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing forward guidance consistent with continued data-dependency and no imminent directional move.
  • pred-2026-05-02-338 The UK government will NOT table formal legislation, issue statutory guidance under existing public order powers, or announce an executive restriction specifically targeting categories of pro-Palestine protests by 2026-05-16. Starmer's government will sustain a rhetorical threat posture while confining actual operational restriction to case-by-case police conditions under existing Public Order Act authority, preserving categorical deniability.
  • pred-2026-05-03-341 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting AND issue a statement with hawkish or hold-biased forward guidance that explicitly declines to signal rate cuts in H1 2026, citing elevated inflation uncertainty from tariff pass-through and energy price pressure.
  • pred-2026-05-09-377 At least one qualifying event will occur between 2026-05-09 and 2026-05-16: Russia formally announcing a new operational phase or mandatory mobilization expansion, OR Ukraine conducting a publicized cross-border strategic strike on Russian territory.

• minsky fragility accumulation

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  • pred-2026-05-11-391 Brent crude oil spot price will NOT breach $95 per barrel on any trading day close between May 12 and May 18, 2026, despite the confirmed Strait of Hormuz cargo ship attack at Day 71+ of escalation — a spike of $4–8 intraday is plausible but sustained closes above $95 are not.

• minsky fragility accumulation under sustained high rates

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  • pred-2026-05-06-360 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at the June 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no rate reduction, despite ongoing tariff-driven and Hormuz-linked inflationary pressure and emerging signs of demand weakness.

• minsky fragility channel

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  • pred-2026-04-23-295 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no cut or hike in the post-meeting statement.

• minsky fragility extension

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  • pred-2026-03-15-003 At least one major G7 economy will announce new import tariffs or domestic industrial subsidies in Q2-Q3 2026 (April–September 2026) explicitly framed as 'protecting workers,' 'industrial fairness,' or equivalent labor-solidarity language, where independent distributional analysis confirms the primary economic beneficiary is an upstream extractive or capital-intensive monopoly sector rather than the downstream labor force named in the announcement.

• minsky fragility in patronage networks

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  • pred-2026-04-07-173 Lebanon's post-ceasefire government will remain formally intact through June 2, 2026 — no formal coalition withdrawal, no declared parliamentary majority loss, no cabinet dissolution — despite continued Israeli airstrikes and deepening sectarian fissures

• minsky fragility of coordination momentum

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  • pred-2026-05-11-392 The United States and China will not publicly issue a joint statement, framework, or communiqué specifically addressing the Iran-Hormuz crisis before May 25, 2026; any diplomatic output from Trump-Xi Iran talks will take the form of separate unilateral readouts with convergent but not jointly authored language.

• minsky fragility phase and protest-vote intensity

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  • pred-2026-05-05-352 Labour will lose net control of 4 or more councils in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, AND Keir Starmer's government will issue a public reset or course-correction statement (press conference, policy announcement, or explicit reframing of government direction) within 72 hours of results being declared, by approximately May 11, 2026.

• minsky fragility trigger

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  • pred-2026-04-23-289 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP growth (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized real growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized.

• minsky hedge-speculative-ponzi transition

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  • pred-2026-04-24-311 No Russian warships will be permanently stationed at, and no Russian troops will be based at, Indian military facilities under the April 2026 Russia-India pact by June 19, 2026; the pact will remain a declaratory framework without operational basing. Transient port calls or joint exercises, if they occur, do not constitute falsification.

• minsky incumbency correction

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  • pred-2026-04-25-317 The SNP will win fewer than 65 seats in the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament election, failing to secure an outright majority and producing a hung parliament requiring minority government or coalition/confidence-and-supply arrangements.

• minsky instability

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  • pred-2026-03-19-037 The FOMC's March 2026 SEP (released March 19) will show the median federal funds rate projection for end-2026 at 3.75–4.00% or higher (implying ≤2 cuts from 4.25–4.50%), AND the median 2026 PCE inflation projection will be revised upward from the December 2025 baseline of 2.5%.
  • pred-2026-03-21-055 The left-wing coalition (PS/Greens/NUPES-aligned) retains the Paris mayoralty in the 2026 municipal elections, with second-round results by March 30, 2026 confirming Hidalgo or a designated left successor as mayor with a margin of at least 3 percentage points over the leading right/centrist challenger.
  • pred-2026-03-21-061 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (expected March 26, 2026), down from the October 2025 forecast of approximately 1.6%.
  • pred-2026-03-29-147 The US Department of Defense (via CENTCOM) will publicly confirm at least one new offensive airstrike against Houthi military infrastructure in Yemen between 2026-03-29 and 2026-04-05, citing the Houthi opening of a new operational front.
  • pred-2026-04-09-191 By June 4, 2026, at least 3 US states (most likely from NY, CA, MA, IL, CO, or WA) will publicly announce or formally launch corporate securities enforcement actions or new regulatory frameworks explicitly framed in official communications — press releases, legislative testimony, or formal AG statements — as filling the enforcement vacuum created by the SEC chair's withdrawal from corporate policing.
  • pred-2026-04-10-195 At least one unannounced tariff measure — executive order imposing new duties, retaliatory product list expansion, or formal suspension of a trade exemption — will be publicly announced by either the US or China between April 10–24, 2026, without having been publicly pre-signaled before April 10.
  • pred-2026-04-12-221 The Orthodox Easter ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine will hold at the formal threshold through April 20, 2026 — neither side will formally announce a breakdown NOR execute verified large-scale coordinated offensive operations — while tactical violations continue below the threshold of acknowledged defection.
  • pred-2026-04-18-241 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 19, 2026 (released April 24) will come in at or above 225,000, reflecting cumulative disruption from tariff-driven layoffs, federal workforce reductions, and associated secondary demand contraction.
  • pred-2026-04-21-265 Reform UK will finish in second place ahead of the Conservative Party in the Birmingham by-election, while Labour retains the seat with a majority below 5,000 votes
  • pred-2026-04-21-273 The Starmer government will NOT experience a frontbench resignation or announce a by-election tied specifically to the Robbins/Mandelson vetting scandal within 14 days (by May 5, 2026); accountability pressure will be channeled into parliamentary scrutiny without producing institutional rupture.
  • pred-2026-05-07-369 By June 18, 2026, Israel will formally announce and initiate a large-scale ground military operation explicitly described by the Israeli military as decisive or final-phase, targeting remaining Hamas governance structures in Rafah or northern Gaza, operationally distinct from current targeted raids.
  • pred-2026-05-08-375 Keir Starmer will remain Labour Party leader on June 30, 2026, with no formal leadership confidence vote having been triggered at any point between May 8 and June 30, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-13-401 The Chalmers capital gains and negative gearing reform package will not pass the Australian Senate in its original form by May 27, 2026 — defined as: legislation either failing to reach a final Senate vote, being defeated outright, or passing only with material amendments (grandfathering of existing investment properties broadly extended, CGT discount reduction reduced by more than 10 percentage points from Chalmers' proposal, or implementation timeline delayed beyond 36 months from the bill's original schedule).
  • pred-2026-05-20-403 The UK House of Commons passes the Loyal Address following the King's Speech without a successful no-confidence amendment, on or before 2026-06-03.
  • pred-2026-05-20-404 The Coalition will successfully force material amendments or procedural delay, preventing the 2026 Budget capital gains tax and negative gearing reform from passing in substantially its introduced form in the Australian Senate by 2026-06-03.

• minsky instability (institutional)

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  • pred-2026-05-03-342 The United States will NOT formally announce a net reduction of at least 10,000 troops stationed in Germany, Italy, or Spain by June 28, 2026 — despite Germany's 'anticipated' withdrawal signal and Spain/Italy being cited as next candidates. Withdrawal signaling will continue verbally and through informal restructuring, but no DoD-level formal announcement triggering NDAA notification thresholds will materialize within this window.

• minsky instability / fragility induction

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  • pred-2026-04-12-225 The Iran-Hormuz ceasefire will not collapse before April 26, 2026 — neither (a) renewed Iranian military interdiction of commercial shipping nor (b) a formal US or Israeli declaration of resumed offensive operations against Iranian forces will occur within this window.

• minsky instability / speculative financing

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  • pred-2026-04-22-285 No UK cabinet minister will resign from government directly citing the Doyle job controversy, and no formal Labour Party no-confidence mechanism against Starmer will be triggered, before May 6, 2026.

• minsky instability / speculative phase

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  • pred-2026-04-17-235 Brent crude oil will exceed $110/bbl on at least one trading day between 2026-04-17 and 2026-04-27, given the active US naval blockade of Iranian ports and a $103/bbl baseline.

• minsky instability / speculative regime

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  • pred-2026-04-22-281 At least one of WFP, OCHA, or the IPC Famine Review Committee will formally declare IPC Phase 5 (famine) conditions in at least one zone of Gaza by June 17, 2026.

• minsky instability / stable instability

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  • pred-2026-04-23-297 A publicly confirmed kinetic naval engagement between US forces and Iranian vessels in or near the Strait of Hormuz will occur by May 7, 2026, following Trump's standing shoot order against mine-laying boats.

• minsky instability applied to geopolitical leverage

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  • pred-2026-05-02-339 Iran will not conduct a significant escalation of Hormuz commercial shipping disruption — defined as three or more vessel seizures in a 30-day window, a formally declared exclusion zone, or a mine-laying operation targeting commercial traffic — between May 2 and June 15, 2026.

• minsky instability asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-04-27-328 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing no change to the target range.

• minsky instability cycle

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  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.

• minsky instability discharge

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  • pred-2026-03-18-031 Iran or an Iran-directed proxy will execute a publicly confirmed kinetic attack on Gulf Arab energy infrastructure (oil/gas facilities, pipelines, export terminals, or refinery complexes) by April 1, 2026.

• minsky instability feedback under equilibrium disruption

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  • pred-2026-05-08-371 The Trump administration will obtain an emergency appellate stay of the Court of International Trade ruling invalidating the 10% global baseline tariffs within 14 days of that ruling (by May 21, 2026), keeping the tariffs operationally in force pending full appellate review.

• minsky instability in ceasefire arrangements

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  • pred-2026-05-07-365 By May 21, 2026, Hezbollah will neither formally declare the 2024 Lebanon ceasefire void nor launch a single retaliatory barrage exceeding 50 projectiles toward northern Israel in response to the reported Beirut strike. Sub-threshold response (drone incursions, cross-border fire under 50 projectiles, diplomatic escalation through Iranian channels) is the expected equilibrium.

• minsky instability in conflict

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  • pred-2026-04-25-315 The Lebanon ceasefire extended ~2026-04-21 will NOT collapse before its scheduled expiry (~2026-05-12) through a major Israeli ground operation launch or formal escalation declaration; instead it will reach expiry through incremental erosion, quiet non-renewal, or a brief additional extension.

• minsky instability in defense undercapitalization

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  • pred-2026-05-05-354 By June 30, 2026, Germany will formally announce a multi-year defense spending pathway that explicitly meets or exceeds the NATO 2% GDP floor AND cites the Bundestag-approved Schuldenbremse exemption (or a supplementary fiscal act) as its legal-fiscal basis — rather than leaving the commitment as a vague political pledge or a government-only white paper without legislative backing.

• minsky instability in regional security systems

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  • pred-2026-04-06-159 Israel will publicly and explicitly acknowledge conducting at least one direct kinetic military strike on Iranian sovereign territory before April 20, 2026.

• minsky instability in reserve currency allocation

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  • pred-2026-04-12-227 By June 7, 2026, at least one major GCC sovereign wealth fund (ADIA, PIF, QIA, or KIA) will publicly announce a formal reallocation strategy reducing US-denominated asset exposure by 10%+ or establishing a new European/Swiss-domiciled investment vehicle, explicitly citing Iran-war geopolitical risk or Hormuz corridor uncertainty as justification.

• minsky instability probe

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  • pred-2026-04-08-181 The US-Iran ceasefire will hold through April 22, 2026, without either US or Iranian forces conducting offensive strikes against each other's assets or proxies at brigade scale or above; sub-threshold proxy incidents will occur but will not trigger principal-level escalation.

• minsky instability revelation

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  • pred-2026-04-25-318 The Malian transitional government will NOT formally declare a national state of emergency AND will NOT publicly request emergency military reinforcement from any external partner (Russia/Africa Corps successor, neighboring state, or the African Union) within 60 days of the late-April 2026 coordinated attacks.

• minsky instability threshold

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  • pred-2026-04-27-326 A direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic contact will be publicly announced or confirmed before May 11, 2026, through any qualifying channel (formal bilateral statement, intermediary-confirmed back-channel via Oman, Russia, or Switzerland, or UN-corridor acknowledgment by any party to the exchange).

• minsky instability under conflict conditions

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  • pred-2026-04-18-243 No formal written ceasefire framework, interim nuclear deal, or jointly-acknowledged negotiating document will be publicly announced by both the US and Iran by May 2, 2026; the Oman channel will produce at most ambiguous unilateral statements or vague claims of 'constructive' progress

• minsky moment

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  • pred-2026-03-21-065 By 2026-05-01, Iran will NOT formally declare a nuclear-threshold posture (IAEA inspector suspension, 90%+ weapons-grade enrichment announcement, or NPT withdrawal) in response to the Natanz strike. Iran will instead pursue sub-threshold escalation through proxy operations, unannounced enrichment acceleration, and partial IAEA access restrictions while preserving strategic ambiguity as institutional leverage.
  • pred-2026-04-11-211 Fidesz-KDNP retains parliamentary majority and government formation capacity in Hungary's April 2026 national vote; Péter Magyar's Tisza opposition achieves a polling-competitive performance but fails to translate vote proximity into a decisive seat majority — final governing-coalition seat share remains above 50%.
  • pred-2026-04-11-215 By June 6, 2026, at least one NATO member state will formally request renegotiation of US military base access terms or publicly announce an official government review of existing basing agreements, explicitly citing Atlantic realignment dynamics, reduced US credibility, or the Iran crisis as justification.
  • pred-2026-04-26-324 Within six weeks of the confirmed Orbán coalition election defeat (by 2026-06-07), the Hungarian forint will depreciate more than 8% against the euro, measured from the EUR/HUF rate on the day of confirmed defeat.
  • pred-2026-04-28-332 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds target rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, with no dissents favoring a rate cut.

• minsky normalization

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  • pred-2026-04-23-293 By August 31, 2026, the Israeli government or IDF will formally designate and announce a named military operation or permanent administrative security zone in the northern West Bank (Jenin/Tulkarem corridor or broader), distinct from ad-hoc settler-violence responses — with Operation Iron Wall (January 2025) as the established baseline, meaning any successor named operation, formal escalation of Iron Wall into a permanent administrative zone, or new cabinet/IDF designation of a 'special security zone' with published geographic scope counts as resolution.

• minsky overextension

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  • pred-2026-04-26-321 Armed groups will NOT execute a sustained incursion into Bamako's urban core (inside the Boulevard ring road) within 8 weeks of the April 25, 2026 coordinated attacks near Bamako airport — perimeter and peri-urban pressure will continue and likely escalate, but the Boulevard threshold will not be crossed with forces operating inside the ring continuously for 48 hours or more.

• minsky ponzi rollover

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  • pred-2026-05-09-378 The United States will not issue formal sanctions, invoke Article 4 NATO consultation, or publicly demand arms control compliance from Turkey regarding its announced ICBM program by 2026-06-20. Washington will respond at most via private diplomatic channels, rhetorical 'serious concern' statements, and possibly bilateral dialogue framing — all falling short of institutionally formalized action.

• minsky procyclicality

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  • pred-2026-03-25-097 The OBR Spring Statement (March 26, 2026) will certify UK fiscal headroom below £5bn against the stability rule, most likely in the £1–3bn range; the Chancellor will maintain nominal compliance through within-rule accounting flexibility (investment/current reclassification, forecast-year adjustment, or spending timing shifts) rather than announcing a formal named revision to the stability rule itself.

• minsky recalibration: stability-phase complacency (troop reduction announcement) giving way to instability-phase overcorrection

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  • pred-2026-05-03-345 By 2026-06-14, the German government will formally announce a substantial modification to its troop reduction decision — defined as an implementation pause, supplementary force commitment, or ministerial reframing that functionally conditions or negates the original reduction — in response to combined US Republican pressure and Russian border signaling. A clean formal retraction is not required; a face-saving reformulation that satisfies allied stakeholders counts as YES.

• minsky slow-structural-instability

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  • pred-2026-05-05-357 The US-China tariff standoff will persist without formal structural engagement through June 30, 2026 — no joint US-China statement on tariff negotiation, no ministerial-level or above bilateral negotiating session, and no publicly announced mutual tariff suspension on any product category will emerge before that date.

• minsky sovereign moment

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  • pred-2026-04-08-185 Lebanon will experience at least one of: (a) formal government collapse with failure to form a replacement within 30 days, (b) resumption of large-scale armed conflict involving at least one non-state actor and Lebanese state forces with >50 combat deaths in a single week, or (c) internationally recognized de facto territorial partition acknowledged by 3+ UN Security Council members — by October 8, 2026.

• minsky speculative amplification

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  • pred-2026-03-21-059 TTF natural gas spot prices will average above €55/MWh across the April 1–28, 2026 window, driven by Qatar LNG facility strike and sustained Gulf conflict disruption to spot cargo flows into Europe.

• minsky speculative finance

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  • pred-2026-04-19-247 Brent crude oil will NOT close below $98/bbl on any trading day between April 21 and May 2, 2026, even if a formal US-Iran ceasefire or diplomatic breakthrough is announced during this window.

• minsky speculative phase

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  • pred-2026-05-07-367 Putin's May 9, 2026 Victory Day address and surrounding official communications through May 14 will contain neither (a) a substantive unilateral ceasefire proposal with concrete operational terms directed at Ukraine or NATO, nor (b) a formal military escalation announcement such as a new mobilization wave, a new annexation declaration of territory beyond currently claimed oblasts, or an explicit expansion of formal war aims. The address will maintain existing war-justification framing with rhetorical intensification but no structural departure in either direction. If ceasefire-adjacent language appears, it will be encoded as performative diplomacy with conditions calibrated to fail (e.g., NATO withdrawal or no-membership guarantees) rather than a genuine diplomatic initiative.

• minsky speculative-finance

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  • pred-2026-05-12-397 The Australian Labor government's negative gearing and capital gains tax reform measures as announced in Budget 2026 will survive 14 days of parliamentary scrutiny through May 26, 2026, without the government publicly offering major concessions — defined as explicit scope reduction, new grandfathering provisions not present in the original budget announcement, or phase-in timeline extension — to crossbenchers or the opposition in response to parliamentary pressure.

• minsky speculative-finance phase and ponzi dynamics threshold

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  • pred-2026-05-13-402 UK 10-year gilt yields will breach 5.5% at least once during the period May 13 – July 8, 2026, as compound political-fiscal stress from the Starmer ministerial crisis reinforces the pre-existing 27-year high borrowing cost trajectory.

• minsky stability trap

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  • pred-2026-03-17-021 No publicly announced operative agreement (ceasefire extension, hostage deal, or binding framework document with operational parameters) will emerge from the Cairo talks by March 28, 2026. Any public statement issued will be a procedural communiqué or vague progress declaration without binding commitments on ceasefire duration, hostage releases, or withdrawal timelines.

• minsky stability-fragility dynamic at state level

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  • pred-2026-05-07-366 By June 30, 2026, China will NOT formally announce a bilateral or multilateral diplomatic initiative — hosted talks, ceasefire proposal, or maritime security framework — for the Hormuz standoff; Beijing will conduct back-channel mediation and issue rhetorical calls for dialogue through SCO/BRI venues but will not make a public, attributable formal commitment to a resolution process.

• minsky surface-stability

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  • pred-2026-05-11-393 No formal no-confidence motion in Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader will be tabled by Labour MPs, and Starmer will not publicly announce his resignation as party leader, before July 6, 2026.

• minsky willingness-to-talk vs. willingness-to-commit

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  • pred-2026-04-20-259 The Lebanon-Israel direct talks on April 24, 2026 will end without a written joint communiqué, agreed withdrawal timeline, or formal security framework within 14 days (by May 4, 2026); the most probable outcome is a procedural statement affirming 'constructive dialogue' and scheduling a follow-on session, with no binding deliverable.

• minsky-buffer-depletion

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  • pred-2026-05-20-405 By 2026-07-15, at least two US regulatory agencies currently experiencing confirmed leadership vacancies (including FDA following the head's resignation confirmed in May 2026) will have publicly missed a statutory deadline OR received a court ruling or published Inspector General report formally attributing documented operational failure to the vacancy cascade — with evidentiary basis in agency records, court dockets, or published IG reports.

• minsky-debt-service-bias

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  • pred-2026-03-26-111 The US Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE inflation (ex food and energy) at or above 2.7% year-over-year when released on March 28, 2026, materially complicating the FOMC's projected 2026 rate-cut path by causing a deferral of the anticipated June 2026 cut.

• minsky-deterrence-ratchet

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  • pred-2026-03-19-039 Between March 19 and April 2, 2026, Iranian state forces (IRGC or Iranian military, not proxies) will execute at least one direct ballistic missile or drone strike explicitly claimed by Iran against Israeli military installations or US military assets in the Middle East region, following the killing of intelligence chief Khatib and Ali Larijani.

• minsky-fragile expectations environment

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  • pred-2026-03-26-113 The United States and Iran will NOT publicly announce the opening of formal direct bilateral nuclear negotiations on or before May 15, 2026; back-channel or third-party mediation activity may intensify but will not produce a jointly acknowledged formal bilateral announcement within this window.

• minsky-fragility paradox — economic desperation producing risk-aversion

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  • pred-2026-04-11-205 Iran will not issue a formal public statement explicitly confirming participation in a second round of US-Iran diplomatic talks by April 25, 2026, instead maintaining strategic ambiguity through hedged ministerial language while backchannel engagement continues.

• minsky-geopolitical-ponzi

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  • pred-2026-04-11-213 By April 25, 2026, Iran will NOT satisfy both conditions simultaneously: (1) formal Iranian delegation participation in the Islamabad round AND (2) a substantive joint framework or communiqué explicitly addressing Hormuz access conditions with verifiable parameters. The joint probability of both conditions being met is approximately 8%.

• minsky-instability

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  • pred-2026-05-09-379 Credible reports of resumed large-scale offensive operations by Russia or Ukraine will emerge before May 15, 2026, causing the ceasefire to collapse within or immediately following its stated 72-hour window.
  • pred-2026-05-11-390 No direct US-Iran naval exchange, vessel seizure by either party, or US military strike on Iranian assets will occur within the 6-week window ending 2026-06-22; the sub-threshold harassment equilibrium holds below the direct-exchange threshold.

• minsky-overshoot

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  • pred-2026-03-19-043 European TTF natural gas spot price will close above €45/MWh on at least 3 of the 5 trading days from March 20–26, 2026, as markets price in the confirmed 17% reduction in Qatar LNG capacity following Iranian strikes.

• minsky-ratchet

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  • pred-2026-05-03-343 A fourth formal round of Iran-US nuclear negotiations will NOT be publicly announced or formally scheduled by 2026-05-17, despite the US having formally responded to Iran's latest peace proposal.

• minsky-type patronage fragility at fiscal transfer-capture inflection

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  • pred-2026-04-12-217 The Tisza/Magyar Péter coalition will win a sufficient number of parliamentary seats in the April 12, 2026 Hungarian elections to form a majority government without Fidesz — operationalized as securing at least 100 seats in the 199-seat National Assembly and proceeding to coalition government formation without Orbán as Prime Minister.

• minskyan absorption delay

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  • pred-2026-03-25-107 The UK government's proposed ban on cryptocurrency political donations will pass second reading in the House of Commons by 15 May 2026.

• minskyan instability cycle

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  • pred-2026-04-21-267 By May 5, 2026, neither the US nor Iran will publicly acknowledge the reported Islamabad back-channel talks through any jointly recognized framework, agreed formal agenda, or confirmed next-round meeting date; the public-denial/back-channel split will persist without official acknowledgment from either Tehran or Washington.

• mint

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  • Policy Brief: Minting Recognition at the Boundary

• mint-function

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  • pred-2026-03-22-071 The European Union will formally announce a retaliatory tariff package against US goods — with specific named product lists and stated rates — on or before 2026-05-03, though implementation will likely be suspended or staged pending negotiations.

• mint-function and institutional legitimacy seigniorage

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  • pred-2026-03-19-045 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth projection below 1.5% in its Spring 2026 forecast published alongside the Spring Statement on or around March 26, 2026

• mobility

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  • The Mobility Paradox: How Diaspora Nostalgia and Host-Society Aristocracy Ratchet Segregation Through the Figure of the Immigrant

• mobilization lag

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  • pred-2026-05-12-397 The Australian Labor government's negative gearing and capital gains tax reform measures as announced in Budget 2026 will survive 14 days of parliamentary scrutiny through May 26, 2026, without the government publicly offering major concessions — defined as explicit scope reduction, new grandfathering provisions not present in the original budget announcement, or phase-in timeline extension — to crossbenchers or the opposition in response to parliamentary pressure.

• mobilization lag as soft enforcement

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  • pred-2026-04-08-181 The US-Iran ceasefire will hold through April 22, 2026, without either US or Iranian forces conducting offensive strikes against each other's assets or proxies at brigade scale or above; sub-threshold proxy incidents will occur but will not trigger principal-level escalation.

• modularity

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  • Policy Brief: The Modular Trap — Constitutional Architecture and the Dual Occupation Feedback Loop

• monetary overhang

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  • pred-2026-03-26-115 The February 2026 PCE price index (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.8% year-over-year.

• monetary policy

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  • pred-2026-05-01-335 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing forward guidance consistent with continued data-dependency and no imminent directional move.

• monetary policy credibility

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  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.

• monetary-overhang

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  • pred-2026-03-26-111 The US Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE inflation (ex food and energy) at or above 2.7% year-over-year when released on March 28, 2026, materially complicating the FOMC's projected 2026 rate-cut path by causing a deferral of the anticipated June 2026 cut.

• monitoring gap

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  • pred-2026-03-15-003 At least one major G7 economy will announce new import tariffs or domestic industrial subsidies in Q2-Q3 2026 (April–September 2026) explicitly framed as 'protecting workers,' 'industrial fairness,' or equivalent labor-solidarity language, where independent distributional analysis confirms the primary economic beneficiary is an upstream extractive or capital-intensive monopoly sector rather than the downstream labor force named in the announcement.

• monitoring-commons-degradation

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  • pred-2026-04-19-249 No formal IPC Phase 5 famine declaration will be issued for any part of Gaza before May 3, 2026; current 'imminent famine' and Phase 5 risk language will persist as a stable institutional intermediate register without upgrade to formal declaration.

• monitoring-enforcement gap as paradoxical stabilizer

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  • pred-2026-04-25-315 The Lebanon ceasefire extended ~2026-04-21 will NOT collapse before its scheduled expiry (~2026-05-12) through a major Israeli ground operation launch or formal escalation declaration; instead it will reach expiry through incremental erosion, quiet non-renewal, or a brief additional extension.

• monopoly

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  • Policy Brief: The Algorithmic Tribunal Gap
  • The Indicator-Occupation: Surveillance Monopoly, Descriptive Saturation, and the Silence of the Completely Seen

• monopoly pricing power

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  • pred-2026-03-21-063 The February 2026 US core PCE price index will print at or above 2.5% year-over-year when released on or around March 28, 2026, sustaining the Fed's pause posture and contradicting near-term market rate-cut pricing.

• monopsony

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  • pred-2026-03-25-103 The announced 6-day junior doctors strike in England will proceed for at least 4 of its 6 scheduled days without a government-negotiated suspension agreement.

• monopsony and price signal distortion

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  • pred-2026-04-07-167 No formal US government instrument — whether executive order, DoD directive, or binding interagency framework — explicitly delineating permitted versus prohibited uses of commercial AI systems in military and civilian government contexts will be issued by May 31, 2026; the Pentagon-Anthropic dispute will instead resolve through bilateral contract modification, informal DoD guidance, or non-binding working-group output that preserves administrative optionality.

• moral hazard under monitoring deficit

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  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.

• mortgage-reset demand drain

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  • pred-2026-04-26-320 In the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senedd, and English local elections, Labour's combined vote share in comparable contested areas falls more than 5 percentage points below its 2024 general election baseline, as measured by Electoral Commission and council/Senedd/Holyrood declared results by May 10, 2026.

• mowing the grass doctrine

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  • pred-2026-05-07-369 By June 18, 2026, Israel will formally announce and initiate a large-scale ground military operation explicitly described by the Israeli military as decisive or final-phase, targeting remaining Hamas governance structures in Rafah or northern Gaza, operationally distinct from current targeted raids.

• mpc asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-03-20-051 The UK Spring Statement on 26 March 2026 will announce a real-terms freeze or below-CPI uprating of Universal Credit and/or Housing Benefit, with savings explicitly or transparently linked (in the same fiscal event) to increased defence and/or infrastructure expenditure.

• muhasasa (ethno-sectarian power-sharing path dependence)

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  • pred-2026-04-21-269 Iraq's Council of Representatives will NOT formally confirm a new Prime Minister by June 7, 2026; the political vacancy will extend past that date, with at most a caretaker or placeholder nomination occurring within the 7-week window.

• muhasasa consociationalism

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  • pred-2026-04-20-263 Iraq's ruling Shia bloc will fail to achieve both formal nomination AND parliamentary confirmation of a new prime minister by June 1, 2026, with the process remaining unresolved or stalled at the confirmation stage.

• multi-hop back-channel

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  • pred-2026-04-27-326 A direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic contact will be publicly announced or confirmed before May 11, 2026, through any qualifying channel (formal bilateral statement, intermediary-confirmed back-channel via Oman, Russia, or Switzerland, or UN-corridor acknowledgment by any party to the exchange).

• multi-principal commons governance

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  • pred-2026-05-12-396 The UK government will not table a revised welfare reform bill containing substantive conditionality or activity requirements before July 7, 2026.

• multilateral venue path dependence

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  • pred-2026-03-17-017 No publicly announced US-China presidential summit or scheduled Xi-Trump direct bilateral communication will be made by May 1, 2026. The relationship will remain in managed-tension equilibrium with back-channel activity but no formal announcement.

• municipal apparatus as ideological reproduction

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  • pred-2026-03-21-055 The left-wing coalition (PS/Greens/NUPES-aligned) retains the Paris mayoralty in the 2026 municipal elections, with second-round results by March 30, 2026 confirming Hidalgo or a designated left successor as mayor with a margin of at least 3 percentage points over the leading right/centrist challenger.

• muslim community organizational fracture

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  • pred-2026-04-21-265 Reform UK will finish in second place ahead of the Conservative Party in the Birmingham by-election, while Labour retains the seat with a majority below 5,000 votes

• myth

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  • The Emergence Paradox: How the Myth of Spontaneous Order Prevents Spontaneous Order

• national accounts arithmetic

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  • pred-2026-04-25-316 The BEA advance estimate released April 30, 2026 will show Q1 2026 real GDP growth as negative (below 0.0% annualized), with a point estimate in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading surge mechanically compressing the net-exports component and secondarily by consumer spending deceleration.

• national-strategic-sector optics

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  • pred-2026-03-27-131 At least one of BYD, NIO, Li Auto, or XPENG will publicly announce production cuts, factory suspensions, or workforce reductions by 2026-05-08 (6 weeks from 2026-03-27), as domestic margin compression from the ongoing price war renders expansion uneconomical.

• nationalism

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  • The Mobility Calibration Gap: Nationalism, Correlative Self-Legitimation, and the Circulatory Reproduction of Stratification

• nationalization

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  • pred-2026-04-13-001 The post-Hormuz period (2026-2027) will produce a measurable increase in state interventionism in energy and critical supply-chain infrastructure across advanced economies, but this interventionism will predominantly take executive-discretionary form (emergency powers, defense production acts, executive orders, strategic reserve manipulation, military deployment) rather than republican-legislative form (new statutory frameworks, regulatory bodies with public accountability, multilateral treaty arrangements). The mechanism: energy corridor fragility demonstrates that market-mediated supply is geopolitically vulnerable, creating urgent demand for state risk-bearing that the privatization wave of 1980-2020 dismantled — but because the urgency favors speed over deliberation, the state re-enters as risk-bearer through executive channels that concentrate power rather than distributing accountability. This produces a structural paradox: the state reclaims the collective risk-bearing function whose withdrawal (the DB-to-DC template of 051) was the defining institutional shift of the neoliberal period, but does so in forms that weaken rather than strengthen republican institutional integrity. Re-nationalization without republican constraint is re-feudalization under a sovereignty label.

• nato ostrom club enforcement: observable monitoring plus graduated sanctioning plus us control of critical complement (article 5 credibility)

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  • pred-2026-05-03-345 By 2026-06-14, the German government will formally announce a substantial modification to its troop reduction decision — defined as an implementation pause, supplementary force commitment, or ministerial reframing that functionally conditions or negates the original reduction — in response to combined US Republican pressure and Russian border signaling. A clean formal retraction is not required; a face-saving reformulation that satisfies allied stakeholders counts as YES.

• naturalization

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  • pred-2026-05-01-335 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing forward guidance consistent with continued data-dependency and no imminent directional move.

• naturalization of governance grammar

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  • pred-2026-04-23-299 The $70bn ICE/Border Patrol funding bill that passed the Senate will be signed into law by June 18, 2026.

• naturalization of paralysis

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  • pred-2026-04-24-303 The FOMC will vote to hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, with no dissents favoring an immediate cut or hike.

• ndaa notification requirements

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  • pred-2026-05-03-342 The United States will NOT formally announce a net reduction of at least 10,000 troops stationed in Germany, Italy, or Spain by June 28, 2026 — despite Germany's 'anticipated' withdrawal signal and Spain/Italy being cited as next candidates. Withdrawal signaling will continue verbally and through informal restructuring, but no DoD-level formal announcement triggering NDAA notification thresholds will materialize within this window.

• ndis budget coupling

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  • pred-2026-05-12-397 The Australian Labor government's negative gearing and capital gains tax reform measures as announced in Budget 2026 will survive 14 days of parliamentary scrutiny through May 26, 2026, without the government publicly offering major concessions — defined as explicit scope reduction, new grandfathering provisions not present in the original budget announcement, or phase-in timeline extension — to crossbenchers or the opposition in response to parliamentary pressure.

• negative gearing

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  • pred-2026-05-12-397 The Australian Labor government's negative gearing and capital gains tax reform measures as announced in Budget 2026 will survive 14 days of parliamentary scrutiny through May 26, 2026, without the government publicly offering major concessions — defined as explicit scope reduction, new grandfathering provisions not present in the original budget announcement, or phase-in timeline extension — to crossbenchers or the opposition in response to parliamentary pressure.

• ner (national system of cooperation)

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  • pred-2026-03-26-119 Fidesz wins at least 133 of 199 parliamentary seats in the April 2026 Hungarian election, retaining its two-thirds constitutional supermajority.

• net exports accounting identity

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  • pred-2026-04-27-325 The BEA's advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP (scheduled for release ~April 30, 2026) will show a negative quarter-on-quarter annualized growth rate, i.e., real GDP contraction.

• net exports drag

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  • pred-2026-04-28-331 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show annualized real GDP growth below 1.0%, driven by a negative net-exports drag from tariff-anticipation import front-loading and suppressed gross private fixed investment from tariff-uncertainty-induced capital deferral.

• net exports identity

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  • pred-2026-04-22-283 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show negative real GDP growth (annualized rate below 0%), likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by a net exports collapse from pre-tariff import front-loading.

• net exports mechanics (gdp accounting)

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  • pred-2026-04-24-307 The BEA advance estimate of Q1 2026 real GDP growth (released ~April 30, 2026) will show negative annualized growth — a technical contraction below 0% — driven primarily by a large negative net-exports contribution from pre-tariff import front-loading, compounded by suppressed fixed investment.

• network-effect

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  • The Spontaneous Cartel: Network Effects as Means-Testing Without an Examiner
  • Policy Brief: Redirecting Pro-Natalist Spending Toward Class-Reproduction Cost Reduction

• neutrality premium as diplomatic asset destroyed by formal commitment

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  • pred-2026-05-07-366 By June 30, 2026, China will NOT formally announce a bilateral or multilateral diplomatic initiative — hosted talks, ceasefire proposal, or maritime security framework — for the Hormuz standoff; Beijing will conduct back-channel mediation and issue rhetorical calls for dialogue through SCO/BRI venues but will not make a public, attributable formal commitment to a resolution process.

• new orders sub-index

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  • pred-2026-03-29-145 The US ISM Manufacturing PMI for March 2026 will print below 48.0 upon release circa April 1, 2026, confirming manufacturing contraction consistent with compound tariff escalation and Hormuz-driven energy cost pass-through into manufacturing inputs.

• nic transmission lag

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  • pred-2026-03-18-033 The OBR forecast published at the UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will show UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Budget forecast

• nihilism

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  • The Split Address: Coupling, Nihilism, and the Diaspora's Dialogue Problem

• nixon doctrine lag

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  • pred-2026-05-03-342 The United States will NOT formally announce a net reduction of at least 10,000 troops stationed in Germany, Italy, or Spain by June 28, 2026 — despite Germany's 'anticipated' withdrawal signal and Spain/Italy being cited as next candidates. Withdrawal signaling will continue verbally and through informal restructuring, but no DoD-level formal announcement triggering NDAA notification thresholds will materialize within this window.

• non-delegation doctrine

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  • pred-2026-05-09-376 A US federal appellate court (Federal Circuit) will grant an emergency administrative stay reinstating the 10% global baseline tariff within 14 days of the Trade Court ruling, by 2026-05-23, pending full merits briefing and panel review.

• non-ergodic uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-05-06-358 Brent crude oil futures will NOT decline by more than 4% within 7 days of Trump's Project Freedom pause announcement (by May 13, 2026); expected drawdown is 1–3% before stabilization or partial reversal.

• non-interference doctrine as institutionalized behavioral commitment

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  • pred-2026-05-07-366 By June 30, 2026, China will NOT formally announce a bilateral or multilateral diplomatic initiative — hosted talks, ceasefire proposal, or maritime security framework — for the Hormuz standoff; Beijing will conduct back-channel mediation and issue rhetorical calls for dialogue through SCO/BRI venues but will not make a public, attributable formal commitment to a resolution process.

• norm-contestation window

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  • pred-2026-03-27-001 By April 7, 2026, at least one of the following will occur: (a) a formal GCC joint communiqué condemning or demanding reversal of Iran's Hormuz transit fees, (b) a CENTCOM freedom-of-navigation counter-announcement or declaration regarding the transit fee, or (c) Brent crude closing above $108/barrel on at least one trading day — with Brent crossing $108 as the primary resolution pathway (est. 70% standalone probability) and a CENTCOM declaration as the secondary (est. 55% standalone), and GCC communiqué as the least likely of the three (est. 28% standalone).

• nostalgia

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  • Policy Brief: Nostalgia as Governance Occupation
  • The Anachronism Engine: How Permutation Operates on Memory to Convert Identity-Threat into Nostalgia

• nostalgia-pol

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  • The Mobility Paradox: How Diaspora Nostalgia and Host-Society Aristocracy Ratchet Segregation Through the Figure of the Immigrant

• notwithstanding-clause

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  • pred-2026-03-23-083 The Supreme Court of Canada will neither issue a substantive ruling striking down nor grant leave to appeal in a manner that substantially limits Quebec's Bill 21 (Act Respecting the Laicity of the State) before May 18, 2026.

• obedience

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  • pred-2026-03-11-001 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its March 18-19, 2026 meeting, maintaining the current target range.

• obligation

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  • pred-2026-03-15-001 Between 2026 and 2028, governance movements across ideological lines will increasingly adopt structurally theocratic obligation-forms — non-negotiable, cosmologically or civilizationally grounded duties that bypass deliberative contestation — as the primary mechanism for generating political compliance, driven by the simultaneous exhaustion of commodity-freedom's meaning-supply (057) and dystopian credit's compliance-supply (065). This will manifest not primarily as the expansion of formal religious governance but as the proliferation of secular-theocratic obligation-claims: climate emergency as sacred duty, civilizational defense as existential covenant, AI alignment as species-level moral imperative, and demographic reproduction as national-spiritual obligation. The structural signature is the conversion of policy preferences into non-negotiable obligations — claims that cannot be weighed against competing goods because they are framed as prior to and constitutive of the political order itself, functioning as the gift-form's (057) final intensification: the non-reciprocable gift elevated from institutional to cosmological register, producing obligation-bonds that no commodity-freedom can discharge.

• obr as common-pool credibility resource (ostrom-style governance analysis)

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  • pred-2026-05-13-402 UK 10-year gilt yields will breach 5.5% at least once during the period May 13 – July 8, 2026, as compound political-fiscal stress from the Starmer ministerial crisis reinforces the pre-existing 27-year high borrowing cost trajectory.

• obr certification as ideological legitimation

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  • pred-2026-03-25-097 The OBR Spring Statement (March 26, 2026) will certify UK fiscal headroom below £5bn against the stability rule, most likely in the £1–3bn range; the Chancellor will maintain nominal compliance through within-rule accounting flexibility (investment/current reclassification, forecast-year adjustment, or spending timing shifts) rather than announcing a formal named revision to the stability rule itself.

• obr certification credibility gate

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  • pred-2026-05-12-398 The UK government will NOT announce a formal emergency fiscal consolidation measure (unscheduled spending review, emergency budget statement, or explicit new multi-billion-pound spending cut commitment) by May 26, 2026; the government will instead deploy Chancellor statements reaffirming existing fiscal rules, coordinated Treasury-OBR messaging, and verbal commitments without concrete new cuts.

• obr credibility commons management

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  • pred-2026-03-29-153 The OBR's Spring Statement (March 31, 2026) will publish a UK 2026 GDP growth forecast strictly below 1.0%.

• obr credibility norm

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  • pred-2026-03-18-033 The OBR forecast published at the UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will show UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Budget forecast

• obr credibility property right

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  • pred-2026-03-21-061 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (expected March 26, 2026), down from the October 2025 forecast of approximately 1.6%.

• obr credibility-preservation mandate

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  • pred-2026-03-22-073 The OBR's Spring Statement 2026 forecast will project UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 at or below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Statement projection of approximately 1.6–1.7%.

• obr institutional conservatism and anchoring bias

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  • pred-2026-03-19-045 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth projection below 1.5% in its Spring 2026 forecast published alongside the Spring Statement on or around March 26, 2026

• obr institutional credibility

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  • pred-2026-03-24-091 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast downward by at least 0.5 percentage points from its Autumn 2025 Statement projection in the Spring Statement 2026 fiscal event on March 26, 2026.

• obr-credibility-function

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  • pred-2026-03-28-135 The OBR will revise its UK 2026 GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (March 30-31, 2026), specifically to a figure in the 0.7-0.99% range, signaling structural rather than cyclical deterioration.

• observation

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  • pred-2026-03-11-001 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its March 18-19, 2026 meeting, maintaining the current target range.

• occupation

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  • Policy Brief: Nostalgia as Governance Occupation
  • The Indicator-Occupation: Surveillance Monopoly, Descriptive Saturation, and the Silence of the Completely Seen

• occupation-mov

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  • The Mobility Calibration Gap: Nationalism, Correlative Self-Legitimation, and the Circulatory Reproduction of Stratification
  • Policy Brief: The Modular Trap — Constitutional Architecture and the Dual Occupation Feedback Loop

• oer measurement convention

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  • pred-2026-04-07-169 US headline CPI for March 2026 will print at or above 3.5% year-over-year when released approximately April 10, 2026.

• oer measurement path dependence

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  • pred-2026-03-21-063 The February 2026 US core PCE price index will print at or above 2.5% year-over-year when released on or around March 28, 2026, sustaining the Fed's pause posture and contradicting near-term market rate-cut pricing.

• oer shelter lag

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  • pred-2026-05-06-362 The BLS April 2026 CPI release (expected May 13–14, 2026) will show headline CPI year-over-year at or above 3.5%, driven by Hormuz-disruption gasoline price transmission into the consumer basket.

• oer-imputation

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  • pred-2026-03-20-049 February 2026 core PCE inflation (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.7% year-over-year, exceeding the January reading and the Fed's December SEP projection of 2.6%.

• oil-shock transmission mechanism

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  • pred-2026-05-08-372 The United States will not conduct direct kinetic strikes on Iranian territory or Iranian military installations inside Iran by June 30, 2026; any kinetic response will remain outside Iranian borders — targeting Iranian naval vessels or oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, or Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria, or Yemen.

• oligopolistic margin maintenance

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  • pred-2026-03-22-075 The BEA will report US February 2026 PCE price index year-over-year at or above 2.6% when released in the final week of March 2026.

• oligopolistic markup maintenance

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  • pred-2026-04-06-157 The Bureau of Labor Statistics' March 2026 CPI report (expected release ~April 10, 2026) will show headline inflation at or above 3.5% year-over-year.

• oligopolistic pricing

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  • pred-2026-03-26-115 The February 2026 PCE price index (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.8% year-over-year.
  • pred-2026-04-08-177 The March 2026 US headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released during the week of April 7–11, 2026, driven by tariff pass-through in goods categories and embedded energy cost from the pre-ceasefire Iran-Hormuz disruption.
  • pred-2026-04-09-187 March 2026 US CPI (all items, year-over-year) prints at or above 3.0% when released approximately April 10–11, 2026.

• oligopolistic pricing power

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  • pred-2026-04-08-183 US March 2026 headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released approximately April 10, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-05-356 The BLS April 2026 CPI report (~May 13 release) will show headline YoY inflation at or above 3.5%, consistent with measurable tariff pass-through crossing that threshold in the April measurement window.
  • pred-2026-05-11-388 The US CPI release on approximately May 12-14, 2026 (measuring April 2026 price levels) will show headline year-over-year inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating that tariff pass-through has cleared the institutional absorption buffers within 8-10 weeks of the April 2026 tariff escalation.

• oligopolistic-collective-action

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  • pred-2026-03-26-111 The US Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE inflation (ex food and energy) at or above 2.7% year-over-year when released on March 28, 2026, materially complicating the FOMC's projected 2026 rate-cut path by causing a deferral of the anticipated June 2026 cut.

• oligopoly pricing power

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  • pred-2026-05-07-368 The US April 2026 CPI report (released approximately May 13-14) will show year-over-year headline inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating meaningful tariff-driven pass-through to consumer goods prices.

• oligopoly-pricing-power

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  • pred-2026-03-20-049 February 2026 core PCE inflation (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.7% year-over-year, exceeding the January reading and the Fed's December SEP projection of 2.6%.

• olsonian asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-05-12-397 The Australian Labor government's negative gearing and capital gains tax reform measures as announced in Budget 2026 will survive 14 days of parliamentary scrutiny through May 26, 2026, without the government publicly offering major concessions — defined as explicit scope reduction, new grandfathering provisions not present in the original budget announcement, or phase-in timeline extension — to crossbenchers or the opposition in response to parliamentary pressure.
  • pred-2026-05-13-401 The Chalmers capital gains and negative gearing reform package will not pass the Australian Senate in its original form by May 27, 2026 — defined as: legislation either failing to reach a final Senate vote, being defeated outright, or passing only with material amendments (grandfathering of existing investment properties broadly extended, CGT discount reduction reduced by more than 10 percentage points from Chalmers' proposal, or implementation timeline delayed beyond 36 months from the bill's original schedule).

• olsonian collective action asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-03-15-003 At least one major G7 economy will announce new import tariffs or domestic industrial subsidies in Q2-Q3 2026 (April–September 2026) explicitly framed as 'protecting workers,' 'industrial fairness,' or equivalent labor-solidarity language, where independent distributional analysis confirms the primary economic beneficiary is an upstream extractive or capital-intensive monopoly sector rather than the downstream labor force named in the announcement.
  • pred-2026-04-23-299 The $70bn ICE/Border Patrol funding bill that passed the Senate will be signed into law by June 18, 2026.

• olsonian collective action failure

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  • pred-2026-05-08-375 Keir Starmer will remain Labour Party leader on June 30, 2026, with no formal leadership confidence vote having been triggered at any point between May 8 and June 30, 2026.

• oman intermediary structure

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  • pred-2026-04-25-313 US and Iranian envoys will NOT jointly release a written framework document — communiqué, statement of principles, or agreed enrichment parameters — by 2026-05-09, the 14-day window following expected talk commencement around 2026-05-02. Talks will produce at most a procedural signal (agreement to continue, 'constructive atmosphere' language) without a jointly signed or jointly attributed text encoding substantive commitments.

• oman-back-channel

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  • pred-2026-05-03-343 A fourth formal round of Iran-US nuclear negotiations will NOT be publicly announced or formally scheduled by 2026-05-17, despite the US having formally responded to Iran's latest peace proposal.

• oman-channel paradox

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  • pred-2026-04-18-243 No formal written ceasefire framework, interim nuclear deal, or jointly-acknowledged negotiating document will be publicly announced by both the US and Iran by May 2, 2026; the Oman channel will produce at most ambiguous unilateral statements or vague claims of 'constructive' progress

• oman-channel-gestation

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  • pred-2026-03-25-105 By April 8, 2026, the US and Iran will NOT publicly confirm a scheduled direct or Oman-mediated bilateral meeting at deputy-foreign-minister level or above to discuss nuclear or military de-escalation terms.

• ombudsman

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  • The Emergence Paradox: How the Myth of Spontaneous Order Prevents Spontaneous Order

• ombudsman-paradox

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  • pred-2026-03-20-053 The European Commission will NOT formally invoke the Gas Security of Supply Regulation (2017/1938 or successor) or authorize coordinated strategic reserve drawdowns in response to Qatar LNG supply disruption by May 15, 2026. Instead, the Commission will activate softer coordination instruments: EU Energy Platform convening, emergency supply monitoring, joint procurement facilitation, and Commission communications — without crossing the formal solidarity-trigger or drawdown-authorization threshold.
  • pred-2026-03-22-071 The European Union will formally announce a retaliatory tariff package against US goods — with specific named product lists and stated rates — on or before 2026-05-03, though implementation will likely be suspended or staged pending negotiations.

• omen

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  • The Evidentiary Constitution of Property: Tribunal, Omen, and the Insurrection Threshold

• opacity as institutional technology

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  • pred-2026-04-18-245 By May 31, 2026, no major GCC sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA/Mubadala/ADQ, Kuwait Investment Authority, or Qatar Investment Authority) will formally announce a strategic reduction in US dollar-denominated holdings or a new non-dollar allocation explicitly framed as a geopolitically-motivated portfolio rebalancing.

• opec+ production floor

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  • pred-2026-04-19-247 Brent crude oil will NOT close below $98/bbl on any trading day between April 21 and May 2, 2026, even if a formal US-Iran ceasefire or diplomatic breakthrough is announced during this window.

• operation earnest will precedent

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  • pred-2026-05-04-349 The US Navy will successfully coordinate the transit of at least 3 additional commercially-operated vessels through the Strait of Hormuz under naval escort between 2026-05-04 and 2026-05-14, building on the reported 2-vessel precedent and Trump's public commitment to 'guide' stranded ships.

• operational-constitutional-incoherence

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  • pred-2026-03-25-105 By April 8, 2026, the US and Iran will NOT publicly confirm a scheduled direct or Oman-mediated bilateral meeting at deputy-foreign-minister level or above to discuss nuclear or military de-escalation terms.

• operationalization gap

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  • pred-2026-03-17-015 The US Supreme Court will NOT issue a stay or preliminary injunction halting the administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status within 14 days of the March 17, 2026 expedited argument session (resolution by 2026-03-31).

• option preservation

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  • pred-2026-03-21-065 By 2026-05-01, Iran will NOT formally declare a nuclear-threshold posture (IAEA inspector suspension, 90%+ weapons-grade enrichment announcement, or NPT withdrawal) in response to the Natanz strike. Iran will instead pursue sub-threshold escalation through proxy operations, unannounced enrichment acceleration, and partial IAEA access restrictions while preserving strategic ambiguity as institutional leverage.

• option value

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  • pred-2026-03-22-069 Iran will NOT formally suspend IAEA inspector access nor announce NPT withdrawal within 14 days of the Natanz strike — i.e., no formal suspension order or NPT withdrawal notice will be issued by 2026-04-05. Iran will instead escalate within the framework: accelerated enrichment, reduced inspector access, expulsion of specific personnel, and declaratory threats, while preserving formal treaty membership.

• option value of legal status quo preservation

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  • pred-2026-05-08-371 The Trump administration will obtain an emergency appellate stay of the Court of International Trade ruling invalidating the 10% global baseline tariffs within 14 days of that ruling (by May 21, 2026), keeping the tariffs operationally in force pending full appellate review.

• option-value of ambiguity

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  • pred-2026-04-28-333 The US and Iran will NOT announce a formal written framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program before June 23, 2026; the diplomatic channel will remain in 'talks continuing' ambiguity mode throughout the window.

• option-value pricing asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-05-05-353 The Lula-Trump Washington meeting (week of May 5, 2026) will produce no formal bilateral trade instrument, explicit tariff-exemption commitment, or jointly signed framework document with operative trade language. The sole substantive output will be a ceremonial joint statement with non-binding aspirational language (e.g., 'exploring enhanced cooperation,' sector-level working groups) and no enforceable tariff provisions.

• option-value-destruction

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  • pred-2026-03-24-093 By April 7, 2026, no formal public confirmation of direct or Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic talks will be issued by official representatives of any of the three governments.

• option-value-of-ambiguity

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  • pred-2026-04-11-207 The UK government will NOT publicly announce or formally confirm a specific named military deployment or coalition mission mandate targeting Strait of Hormuz shipping security by April 25, 2026 — diplomatic language about 'discussions,' 'contingency planning,' or 'enhanced presence' does not satisfy the criterion.

• option-value-of-leverage

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  • pred-2026-04-11-213 By April 25, 2026, Iran will NOT satisfy both conditions simultaneously: (1) formal Iranian delegation participation in the Islamabad round AND (2) a substantive joint framework or communiqué explicitly addressing Hormuz access conditions with verifiable parameters. The joint probability of both conditions being met is approximately 8%.

• optionality premium

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  • pred-2026-05-11-392 The United States and China will not publicly issue a joint statement, framework, or communiqué specifically addressing the Iran-Hormuz crisis before May 25, 2026; any diplomatic output from Trump-Xi Iran talks will take the form of separate unilateral readouts with convergent but not jointly authored language.

• optionality preservation

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  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper

• organic composition of capital

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  • pred-2026-03-27-131 At least one of BYD, NIO, Li Auto, or XPENG will publicly announce production cuts, factory suspensions, or workforce reductions by 2026-05-08 (6 weeks from 2026-03-27), as domestic margin compression from the ongoing price war renders expansion uneconomical.

• organic crisis

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  • pred-2026-05-07-364 Labour will lose net control of at least 3 councils and at least 150 council seats in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, confirming a major Reform/Green pincer surge.

• organic-composition-of-capital

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  • pred-2026-03-18-027 The Eurozone composite flash PMI for March 2026 will print below 49.0, signaling economic contraction, with the manufacturing sub-index leading at 46–47 and services dragging the composite to approximately 48.2–48.8.

• organizational credibility imperative

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  • pred-2026-05-07-365 By May 21, 2026, Hezbollah will neither formally declare the 2024 Lebanon ceasefire void nor launch a single retaliatory barrage exceeding 50 projectiles toward northern Israel in response to the reported Beirut strike. Sub-threshold response (drone incursions, cross-border fire under 50 projectiles, diplomatic escalation through Iranian channels) is the expected equilibrium.

• organizational survival constraint

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  • pred-2026-03-17-021 No publicly announced operative agreement (ceasefire extension, hostage deal, or binding framework document with operational parameters) will emerge from the Cairo talks by March 28, 2026. Any public statement issued will be a procedural communiqué or vague progress declaration without binding commitments on ceasefire duration, hostage releases, or withdrawal timelines.

• organizational switching costs

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  • pred-2026-04-21-265 Reform UK will finish in second place ahead of the Conservative Party in the Birmingham by-election, while Labour retains the seat with a majority below 5,000 votes

• organizational-apparatus-material-interests

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  • pred-2026-05-04-348 By June 15, 2026 (six weeks after Mélenchon's announcement), at least one of PS, PCF, or EELV will have issued a formal public statement — via party leadership, national bureau, or official spokesperson — either endorsing Mélenchon's candidacy or explicitly opposing it / demanding a negotiated primary process.

• ostrom collective resource governance

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  • pred-2026-04-22-285 No UK cabinet minister will resign from government directly citing the Doyle job controversy, and no formal Labour Party no-confidence mechanism against Starmer will be triggered, before May 6, 2026.

• ostrom common-pool credibility governance

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  • pred-2026-03-22-073 The OBR's Spring Statement 2026 forecast will project UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 at or below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Statement projection of approximately 1.6–1.7%.

• ostrom common-pool governance

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  • pred-2026-05-05-355 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, AND the post-meeting statement and Powell press conference will not signal that a rate cut is imminent (i.e., will not pre-commit to or strongly imply a June 2026 cut, defined as no shift to >70% market-implied probability of June cut immediately post-conference).

• ostrom common-pool governance of fiscal surplus

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  • pred-2026-05-12-394 Treasurer Chalmers' 2026 Federal Budget will declare a nominal fiscal surplus AND include direct household cost-of-living transfers (energy rebates, rent assistance top-ups, targeted payment extensions) exceeding AUD 3 billion in aggregate across all line items.

• ostrom common-pool resource governance

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  • pred-2026-04-10-201 Commercial tanker passage through the Strait of Hormuz will recover to at least 60% of pre-conflict baseline traffic volumes by April 24, 2026, following ceasefire diplomacy.

• ostrom commons failure

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  • pred-2026-04-23-293 By August 31, 2026, the Israeli government or IDF will formally designate and announce a named military operation or permanent administrative security zone in the northern West Bank (Jenin/Tulkarem corridor or broader), distinct from ad-hoc settler-violence responses — with Operation Iron Wall (January 2025) as the established baseline, meaning any successor named operation, formal escalation of Iron Wall into a permanent administrative zone, or new cabinet/IDF designation of a 'special security zone' with published geographic scope counts as resolution.

• ostrom commons governance conditions

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  • pred-2026-04-21-275 By June 16, 2026, international Gaza reconstruction pledges announced at any formal conference or donor coordination mechanism will nominally total at least $5B USD, but no operational disbursement mechanism will exist that has transferred capital to Gaza-based entities — leaving commitments as unfunded declarations without a functioning payment architecture.

• ostrom commons logic

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  • pred-2026-03-25-107 The UK government's proposed ban on cryptocurrency political donations will pass second reading in the House of Commons by 15 May 2026.

• ostrom conditions for commons governance

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  • pred-2026-04-20-259 The Lebanon-Israel direct talks on April 24, 2026 will end without a written joint communiqué, agreed withdrawal timeline, or formal security framework within 14 days (by May 4, 2026); the most probable outcome is a procedural statement affirming 'constructive dialogue' and scheduling a follow-on session, with no binding deliverable.

• ostrom conditions for credible commitment

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  • pred-2026-05-10-384 No direct Putin-Zelensky bilateral meeting will take place, nor will confirmed dates for such a meeting be publicly announced by both parties, by 2026-06-21

• ostrom cpr governance deficit

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  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.

• ostrom credibility commons depletion

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  • pred-2026-05-09-381 By June 30, 2026, the EU will formally pause, extend, or substantially modify its July 4 retaliatory tariff ultimatum against the US, and will cite US domestic court battles over tariff legality as a stated ground for the modification, rather than allowing the deadline to stand unchanged.

• ostrom design principles

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  • pred-2026-04-22-287 No written framework, parameters document, or joint statement of principles on US-Iran nuclear de-escalation will be jointly announced by June 15, 2026; talks will remain in procedural or exploratory contact phase at best

• ostrom focal-point pre-coordination

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  • pred-2026-04-27-328 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing no change to the target range.

• ostrom governance preconditions

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  • pred-2026-04-24-305 US-Iran nuclear and sanctions negotiations will NOT produce a publicly acknowledged written framework or agreement-in-principle document by May 31, 2026. Talks will continue in back-channel form; any visible output will be verbal acknowledgments of 'progress' rather than a signed or jointly circulated text.

• ostrom imperfect monitoring

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  • pred-2026-05-09-377 At least one qualifying event will occur between 2026-05-09 and 2026-05-16: Russia formally announcing a new operational phase or mandatory mobilization expansion, OR Ukraine conducting a publicized cross-border strategic strike on Russian territory.

• ostrom labor retention norm

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  • pred-2026-04-07-165 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 5, 2026 (released April 10, 2026) will come in BELOW 230,000, remaining consistent with pre-tariff baseline and within the structural lag window before tariff-shock displacement becomes visible in formal claims data.

• ostrom partial-cooperation equilibrium

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  • pred-2026-03-21-065 By 2026-05-01, Iran will NOT formally declare a nuclear-threshold posture (IAEA inspector suspension, 90%+ weapons-grade enrichment announcement, or NPT withdrawal) in response to the Natanz strike. Iran will instead pursue sub-threshold escalation through proxy operations, unannounced enrichment acceleration, and partial IAEA access restrictions while preserving strategic ambiguity as institutional leverage.

• ostrom-cpr-gap

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  • pred-2026-05-03-344 The UK government will NOT formally declare an energy emergency or extend mandatory energy rationing beyond the existing airline cancellation order by 2026-05-17; energy management will proceed through escalating sector-specific administrative orders while preserving market governance architecture.

• ostrom-governance-prerequisites

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  • pred-2026-05-09-379 Credible reports of resumed large-scale offensive operations by Russia or Ukraine will emerge before May 15, 2026, causing the ceasefire to collapse within or immediately following its stated 72-hour window.

• ostromian monitoring-through-use

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  • pred-2026-04-12-225 The Iran-Hormuz ceasefire will not collapse before April 26, 2026 — neither (a) renewed Iranian military interdiction of commercial shipping nor (b) a formal US or Israeli declaration of resumed offensive operations against Iranian forces will occur within this window.

• overaccumulation

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  • pred-2026-03-27-131 At least one of BYD, NIO, Li Auto, or XPENG will publicly announce production cuts, factory suspensions, or workforce reductions by 2026-05-08 (6 weeks from 2026-03-27), as domestic margin compression from the ongoing price war renders expansion uneconomical.

• overaccumulation retreat

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  • pred-2026-04-27-325 The BEA's advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP (scheduled for release ~April 30, 2026) will show a negative quarter-on-quarter annualized growth rate, i.e., real GDP contraction.

• owner's equivalent rent (oer) methodology lag

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  • pred-2026-04-06-157 The Bureau of Labor Statistics' March 2026 CPI report (expected release ~April 10, 2026) will show headline inflation at or above 3.5% year-over-year.

• owners-equivalent-rent

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  • pred-2026-03-26-111 The US Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE inflation (ex food and energy) at or above 2.7% year-over-year when released on March 28, 2026, materially complicating the FOMC's projected 2026 rate-cut path by causing a deferral of the anticipated June 2026 cut.

• owners' equivalent rent

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  • pred-2026-03-23-079 The Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE price index at or above 2.8% year-over-year when data releases on or around March 28, 2026.

• owners' equivalent rent lag

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  • pred-2026-05-11-388 The US CPI release on approximately May 12-14, 2026 (measuring April 2026 price levels) will show headline year-over-year inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating that tariff pass-through has cleared the institutional absorption buffers within 8-10 weeks of the April 2026 tariff escalation.

• p5 veto as structural preservation

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  • pred-2026-03-28-143 Neither a binding UNSC humanitarian access resolution (or emergency framework) specifically for Lebanon nor a formal Lebanese government Chapter VII request will be adopted or lodged by May 15, 2026. The UNSC output will be limited to non-binding language, presidential statements, or renewed UNIFIL mandate discussions.

• pakistan debt-compelled facilitation

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  • pred-2026-04-10-199 The US-Pakistan-Iran Islamabad talks will NOT produce a publicly announced, jointly attributed statement, framework agreement, or ceasefire extension mechanism by April 20, 2026. Any communiqué issued will be a unilateral Pakistani facilitation summary rather than a jointly signed or jointly attributed document.

• palimpsest

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  • pred-2026-03-19-001 Between 2026 and 2028, the securitization of civilian governance domains — trade policy, technology regulation, industrial policy, immigration, infrastructure investment — will produce a stratocratic palimpsest across democratic polities in which civilian-deliberative frameworks remain formally intact but are operationally overwritten by national-security command logic. The mechanism is palimpsest illegibility: as security-logic governance expands into domains previously administered through cost-benefit deliberation, legislative negotiation, and regulatory procedure, the institutional memory of how those civilian frameworks operated atrophies. Classification regimes, executive emergency authorities, and security-exemption precedents accumulate as the new operative text, while the deliberative layer beneath them becomes archaeologically inaccessible — not repealed but unreadable, not overthrown but forgotten. This is stratocratic drift (088) operating through the palimpsest mechanism (061): the command layer does not need to defeat the deliberative layer, only to overwrite it frequently enough that practitioners lose the capacity to read and operate the older text. The structural signature is the proliferation of 'national security' as the governing rationale for decisions that were, within living institutional memory, governed by civilian-economic, rights-based, or welfare-maximizing frameworks — with the critical feature being that restoration of the prior framework becomes progressively harder not because of political opposition but because the institutional competence to operate it has been overwritten.

• paradox of composition

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  • pred-2026-04-24-307 The BEA advance estimate of Q1 2026 real GDP growth (released ~April 30, 2026) will show negative annualized growth — a technical contraction below 0% — driven primarily by a large negative net-exports contribution from pre-tariff import front-loading, compounded by suppressed fixed investment.

• paradox of concession

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  • pred-2026-04-22-277 No written framework agreement or formal joint communiqué committing both parties to continued structured negotiations will emerge from the current US-Iran talks before April 30, 2026; any public statement will be a unilateral declaration, verbal understanding, or silence — not a jointly-attributed written instrument with process commitments.

• paradox of diplomatic thrift

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  • pred-2026-04-11-205 Iran will not issue a formal public statement explicitly confirming participation in a second round of US-Iran diplomatic talks by April 25, 2026, instead maintaining strategic ambiguity through hedged ministerial language while backchannel engagement continues.
  • pred-2026-04-22-287 No written framework, parameters document, or joint statement of principles on US-Iran nuclear de-escalation will be jointly announced by June 15, 2026; talks will remain in procedural or exploratory contact phase at best
  • pred-2026-05-06-359 Iranian government officials will NOT issue any formal statement or diplomatic action officially indicating openness to negotiation over Hormuz transit access before May 20, 2026 (within 14 days of the Project Freedom pause announcement)

• paradox of fiscal credibility

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  • pred-2026-05-05-352 Labour will lose net control of 4 or more councils in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, AND Keir Starmer's government will issue a public reset or course-correction statement (press conference, policy announcement, or explicit reframing of government direction) within 72 hours of results being declared, by approximately May 11, 2026.

• paradox of optionality-hoarding

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  • pred-2026-04-18-243 No formal written ceasefire framework, interim nuclear deal, or jointly-acknowledged negotiating document will be publicly announced by both the US and Iran by May 2, 2026; the Oman channel will produce at most ambiguous unilateral statements or vague claims of 'constructive' progress

• paradox of political thrift

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  • pred-2026-04-26-320 In the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senedd, and English local elections, Labour's combined vote share in comparable contested areas falls more than 5 percentage points below its 2024 general election baseline, as measured by Electoral Commission and council/Senedd/Holyrood declared results by May 10, 2026.

• paradox of strategic restraint

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  • pred-2026-03-26-117 By 2026-04-09, Iran will formally announce at least one of: (a) Strait of Hormuz passage restrictions or mandatory transit fees, or (b) publicly acknowledged retaliatory strikes against Israeli or US military assets, explicitly linked to the killing of Iran's naval chief.

• paradox of thrift

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  • pred-2026-03-18-033 The OBR forecast published at the UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will show UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Budget forecast
  • pred-2026-03-21-065 By 2026-05-01, Iran will NOT formally declare a nuclear-threshold posture (IAEA inspector suspension, 90%+ weapons-grade enrichment announcement, or NPT withdrawal) in response to the Natanz strike. Iran will instead pursue sub-threshold escalation through proxy operations, unannounced enrichment acceleration, and partial IAEA access restrictions while preserving strategic ambiguity as institutional leverage.
  • pred-2026-03-22-073 The OBR's Spring Statement 2026 forecast will project UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 at or below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Statement projection of approximately 1.6–1.7%.
  • pred-2026-03-27-127 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast to below 1.5% in the Spring Statement (due 2026-03-31), down from approximately 2.0% in the Autumn Statement 2025, citing Hormuz-driven energy costs and trade uncertainty.
  • pred-2026-03-29-153 The OBR's Spring Statement (March 31, 2026) will publish a UK 2026 GDP growth forecast strictly below 1.0%.
  • pred-2026-04-22-285 No UK cabinet minister will resign from government directly citing the Doyle job controversy, and no formal Labour Party no-confidence mechanism against Starmer will be triggered, before May 6, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-05-356 The BLS April 2026 CPI report (~May 13 release) will show headline YoY inflation at or above 3.5%, consistent with measurable tariff pass-through crossing that threshold in the April measurement window.
  • pred-2026-05-12-398 The UK government will NOT announce a formal emergency fiscal consolidation measure (unscheduled spending review, emergency budget statement, or explicit new multi-billion-pound spending cut commitment) by May 26, 2026; the government will instead deploy Chancellor statements reaffirming existing fiscal rules, coordinated Treasury-OBR messaging, and verbal commitments without concrete new cuts.
  • pred-2026-05-20-403 The UK House of Commons passes the Loyal Address following the King's Speech without a successful no-confidence amendment, on or before 2026-06-03.

• paradox of thrift (diplomatic commitment variant)

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  • pred-2026-04-28-333 The US and Iran will NOT announce a formal written framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program before June 23, 2026; the diplomatic channel will remain in 'talks continuing' ambiguity mode throughout the window.

• paradox of thrift (geopolitical application)

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  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.

• paradox of thrift (international)

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  • pred-2026-03-28-143 Neither a binding UNSC humanitarian access resolution (or emergency framework) specifically for Lebanon nor a formal Lebanese government Chapter VII request will be adopted or lodged by May 15, 2026. The UNSC output will be limited to non-binding language, presidential statements, or renewed UNIFIL mandate discussions.

• paradox of thrift (political analog)

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  • pred-2026-04-12-223 The Hungarian opposition coalition led by TISZA will fail to deny Fidesz its parliamentary supermajority (≥133 seats) in the April 2026 elections — Fidesz will retain constitutional amendment capacity.

• paradox of thrift (political variant)

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  • pred-2026-04-21-269 Iraq's Council of Representatives will NOT formally confirm a new Prime Minister by June 7, 2026; the political vacancy will extend past that date, with at most a caretaker or placeholder nomination occurring within the 7-week window.

• paradox of thrift / precautionary saving

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  • pred-2026-04-26-319 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 GDP (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized quarter-over-quarter growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.5% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading statistical drag from tariff anticipation and compounded by capital investment deferral and fiscal contraction.

• paradox of thrift applied to cabinet collective loyalty

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  • pred-2026-04-21-273 The Starmer government will NOT experience a frontbench resignation or announce a by-election tied specifically to the Robbins/Mandelson vetting scandal within 14 days (by May 5, 2026); accountability pressure will be channeled into parliamentary scrutiny without producing institutional rupture.

• paradox of thrift applied to deterrence

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  • pred-2026-04-10-193 By April 20, 2026, Iranian authorities (IRGC, Foreign Ministry, or Supreme Leader's office) will issue at least one of the following in direct response to Trump's Hormuz passage warning: a formal counter-statement or diplomatic note, a naval repositioning or exercise announcement, or a NOTAM issuance — with the Foreign Ministry verbal counter-statement being near-certain and an IRGC operational signal being likely.

• paradox of thrift applied to institutional loyalty

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  • pred-2026-04-27-327 By 2026-07-26 (within 90 days of Defence Minister Camara's assassination), the Malian transitional government will experience at least one of: (a) a formal military coup replacing the Goïta-led junta, (b) an officially announced dissolution or restructuring of the unified military command, or (c) a publicly acknowledged loss of administrative control over a named provincial capital. The most probable pathway is acknowledged provincial capital loss or announced command restructuring; a formal coup is the least likely criterion due to novel Wagner/AES transaction-cost constraints absent in prior Malian episodes.

• paradox of thrift at institutional level (consolidation signaling self-defeats)

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  • pred-2026-05-13-402 UK 10-year gilt yields will breach 5.5% at least once during the period May 13 – July 8, 2026, as compound political-fiscal stress from the Starmer ministerial crisis reinforces the pre-existing 27-year high borrowing cost trajectory.

• paradox of thrift at the ballot (keynes)

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  • pred-2026-04-25-317 The SNP will win fewer than 65 seats in the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament election, failing to secure an outright majority and producing a hung parliament requiring minority government or coalition/confidence-and-supply arrangements.

• paradox of thrift fiscal trap

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  • pred-2026-03-25-097 The OBR Spring Statement (March 26, 2026) will certify UK fiscal headroom below £5bn against the stability rule, most likely in the £1–3bn range; the Chancellor will maintain nominal compliance through within-rule accounting flexibility (investment/current reclassification, forecast-year adjustment, or spending timing shifts) rather than announcing a formal named revision to the stability rule itself.

• paradox of thrift in conflict

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  • pred-2026-04-25-315 The Lebanon ceasefire extended ~2026-04-21 will NOT collapse before its scheduled expiry (~2026-05-12) through a major Israeli ground operation launch or formal escalation declaration; instead it will reach expiry through incremental erosion, quiet non-renewal, or a brief additional extension.

• paradox of thrift in diplomatic capital

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  • pred-2026-05-11-392 The United States and China will not publicly issue a joint statement, framework, or communiqué specifically addressing the Iran-Hormuz crisis before May 25, 2026; any diplomatic output from Trump-Xi Iran talks will take the form of separate unilateral readouts with convergent but not jointly authored language.

• paradox of thrift in diplomatic economy

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  • pred-2026-04-27-329 The United States and Iran will NOT issue any formal joint statement, agreed framework document, or publicly announced roadmap from their ongoing nuclear/sanctions diplomacy before May 11, 2026.

• paradox-of-bureaucratic-thrift

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  • pred-2026-05-20-405 By 2026-07-15, at least two US regulatory agencies currently experiencing confirmed leadership vacancies (including FDA following the head's resignation confirmed in May 2026) will have publicly missed a statutory deadline OR received a court ruling or published Inspector General report formally attributing documented operational failure to the vacancy cascade — with evidentiary basis in agency records, court dockets, or published IG reports.

• paradox-of-thrift

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  • pred-2026-03-27-121 The UK Spring Statement (delivered by 2026-03-31) will announce net reductions in working-age welfare benefit expenditure — framed as means-testing reforms, conditionality tightening, or efficiency measures — totalling at least £1 billion annually on OBR scoring.
  • pred-2026-03-28-135 The OBR will revise its UK 2026 GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (March 30-31, 2026), specifically to a figure in the 0.7-0.99% range, signaling structural rather than cyclical deterioration.
  • pred-2026-05-04-348 By June 15, 2026 (six weeks after Mélenchon's announcement), at least one of PS, PCF, or EELV will have issued a formal public statement — via party leadership, national bureau, or official spokesperson — either endorsing Mélenchon's candidacy or explicitly opposing it / demanding a negotiated primary process.

• paradox-of-thrift (signaling equilibrium)

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  • pred-2026-04-24-311 No Russian warships will be permanently stationed at, and no Russian troops will be based at, Indian military facilities under the April 2026 Russia-India pact by June 19, 2026; the pact will remain a declaratory framework without operational basing. Transient port calls or joint exercises, if they occur, do not constitute falsification.

• paradox-of-thrift inversion

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  • pred-2026-04-20-261 By May 4, 2026, the US tariff refund system will face publicly documented administrative backlog, processing freeze, or formal capacity warning — sourced from CBP, USTR, a major trade publication (Journal of Commerce, Inside US Trade, Bloomberg), or a major trade association (NAM, NRF, or equivalent) — attributable to simultaneous mass filing pressure from thousands of importers at launch.

• parliament

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  • Chart-Preservation: Parliamentary Adaptation on a Political Manifold

• parliamentary absorption

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  • pred-2026-04-22-279 None of the three formal challenge triggers materialize by May 6, 2026: no cabinet-level resignation directly linked to the Robbins/diplomatic-job revelations, no formal Labour leadership nomination letter signed by 20+ MPs, and no government defeat on a Commons confidence-adjacent motion.

• parliamentary arithmetic as automatic stabilizer

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  • pred-2026-04-19-255 The UK 'Starmer cover-up' controversy will remain contained as a media/parliamentary questions event with no vote of no confidence, no formal police referral gaining institutional traction, and no statutory inquiry announcement by May 3, 2026.

• parliamentary majority arithmetic

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  • pred-2026-05-12-397 The Australian Labor government's negative gearing and capital gains tax reform measures as announced in Budget 2026 will survive 14 days of parliamentary scrutiny through May 26, 2026, without the government publicly offering major concessions — defined as explicit scope reduction, new grandfathering provisions not present in the original budget announcement, or phase-in timeline extension — to crossbenchers or the opposition in response to parliamentary pressure.

• parliamentary scheduling as binding constraint

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  • pred-2026-03-25-107 The UK government's proposed ban on cryptocurrency political donations will pass second reading in the House of Commons by 15 May 2026.

• parliamentary veto players

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  • pred-2026-04-13-231 By April 26, 2026, at least 3 G7 members beyond the UK will issue formal, public governmental statements declining to participate in the US Hormuz blockade — most likely Germany, Japan, and France.

• party-to-party channel (kmt-cpc)

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  • pred-2026-04-10-203 By May 22, 2026, neither qualifying formal response will materialize: Beijing will not issue a state-level formal policy statement explicitly upgrading cross-strait engagement terms, and the DPP will not formally prohibit or legally constrain opposition cross-strait diplomatic contact through legislation or enforceable executive order.

• pasok-ification

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  • pred-2026-05-07-364 Labour will lose net control of at least 3 councils and at least 150 council seats in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, confirming a major Reform/Green pincer surge.

• passive revolution

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  • pred-2026-05-07-364 Labour will lose net control of at least 3 councils and at least 150 council seats in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, confirming a major Reform/Green pincer surge.

• path dependence

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  • pred-2026-03-17-015 The US Supreme Court will NOT issue a stay or preliminary injunction halting the administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status within 14 days of the March 17, 2026 expedited argument session (resolution by 2026-03-31).
  • pred-2026-03-17-023 The United States will NOT execute or publicly authorize direct military strikes on Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026. Proxy-level operations, Iranian-controlled external asset targeting (IRGC positions in Syria/Iraq, Houthi infrastructure), and covert harassment will remain the dominant pressure mode. No White House or DoD public authorization of strikes framed as targeting Iran itself.
  • pred-2026-03-18-025 The March 2026 FOMC Summary of Economic Projections will show the median 2026 rate-cut projection at 2 or fewer cuts (a downward revision from December's 3-cut median); Powell will use energy-supply-uncertainty language that gestures at Hormuz without explicit naming. The OR compound resolves TRUE primarily through the dot-plot pathway, with explicit Hormuz citation being the uncertain secondary condition.
  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper
  • pred-2026-03-18-031 Iran or an Iran-directed proxy will execute a publicly confirmed kinetic attack on Gulf Arab energy infrastructure (oil/gas facilities, pipelines, export terminals, or refinery complexes) by April 1, 2026.
  • pred-2026-03-18-035 OPEC+ will convene an unscheduled emergency ministerial meeting OR issue a formal communiqué announcing a production policy adjustment (increase, cut, or readiness pledge) in direct response to the Gulf energy disruption by April 30, 2026.
  • pred-2026-03-20-051 The UK Spring Statement on 26 March 2026 will announce a real-terms freeze or below-CPI uprating of Universal Credit and/or Housing Benefit, with savings explicitly or transparently linked (in the same fiscal event) to increased defence and/or infrastructure expenditure.
  • pred-2026-03-22-069 Iran will NOT formally suspend IAEA inspector access nor announce NPT withdrawal within 14 days of the Natanz strike — i.e., no formal suspension order or NPT withdrawal notice will be issued by 2026-04-05. Iran will instead escalate within the framework: accelerated enrichment, reduced inspector access, expulsion of specific personnel, and declaratory threats, while preserving formal treaty membership.
  • pred-2026-03-23-085 The April 2, 2026 'Liberation Day' reciprocal tariff announcement will include a universal baseline tariff of 10% or higher applied to all US imports regardless of country of origin.
  • pred-2026-03-23-087 The UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will announce welfare and/or disability benefit cuts or eligibility restrictions formally projected to save £5bn or more annually, with PIP eligibility tightening and/or UC work-capability conditionality intensification as the primary mechanism.
  • pred-2026-03-25-097 The OBR Spring Statement (March 26, 2026) will certify UK fiscal headroom below £5bn against the stability rule, most likely in the £1–3bn range; the Chancellor will maintain nominal compliance through within-rule accounting flexibility (investment/current reclassification, forecast-year adjustment, or spending timing shifts) rather than announcing a formal named revision to the stability rule itself.
  • pred-2026-03-25-101 Pakistan-mediated US-Iran contacts will NOT produce a publicly announced bilateral meeting, formal ceasefire talks, or nuclear negotiation framework by April 30, 2026
  • pred-2026-03-26-119 Fidesz wins at least 133 of 199 parliamentary seats in the April 2026 Hungarian election, retaining its two-thirds constitutional supermajority.
  • pred-2026-03-27-001 By April 7, 2026, at least one of the following will occur: (a) a formal GCC joint communiqué condemning or demanding reversal of Iran's Hormuz transit fees, (b) a CENTCOM freedom-of-navigation counter-announcement or declaration regarding the transit fee, or (c) Brent crude closing above $108/barrel on at least one trading day — with Brent crossing $108 as the primary resolution pathway (est. 70% standalone probability) and a CENTCOM declaration as the secondary (est. 55% standalone), and GCC communiqué as the least likely of the three (est. 28% standalone).
  • pred-2026-03-28-133 The US Liberation Day tariff package announced April 2, 2026 will NOT be implemented cleanly on schedule — by April 11, 2026, announced bilateral exemptions, product exclusions, implementation delays, or country-specific carve-outs will collectively affect more than 20% of the originally targeted import value.
  • pred-2026-03-28-141 No publicly announced meeting, de-escalation framework, or formal diplomatic signal between the US and Iran will emerge from Pakistan's mediation by April 11, 2026; back-channel activity will continue but remain below the public announcement threshold.
  • pred-2026-03-29-147 The US Department of Defense (via CENTCOM) will publicly confirm at least one new offensive airstrike against Houthi military infrastructure in Yemen between 2026-03-29 and 2026-04-05, citing the Houthi opening of a new operational front.
  • pred-2026-04-06-161 De facto majority halt of commercial Bab al-Mandeb transits—defined as sustained traffic at ≤50% of pre-October 2023 baseline due to voluntary rerouting and insurance market withdrawal—will persist through May 18, 2026, without requiring a formal Houthi closure declaration.
  • pred-2026-04-07-167 No formal US government instrument — whether executive order, DoD directive, or binding interagency framework — explicitly delineating permitted versus prohibited uses of commercial AI systems in military and civilian government contexts will be issued by May 31, 2026; the Pentagon-Anthropic dispute will instead resolve through bilateral contract modification, informal DoD guidance, or non-binding working-group output that preserves administrative optionality.
  • pred-2026-04-07-171 The US and Iran will NOT produce any written diplomatic framework, joint communiqué, or publicly announced schedule for direct negotiations by April 21, 2026 — at most a procedural readout noting talks occurred.
  • pred-2026-04-08-175 The first round of US-Iran talks in Islamabad (approximately April 11–15, 2026) will NOT produce a publicly announced joint communiqué, agreed negotiating framework, or explicit agenda document for nuclear/sanctions discussions by April 15, 2026. The publicly observable outcome will be, at most, a vague procedural statement ('constructive atmosphere; parties agreed to continue') that avoids committing either side to a specific agenda, timeline, or negotiating framework.
  • pred-2026-04-08-179 By June 1, 2026, the US-Iran diplomatic process will remain in purely renewable mode: no formal framework agreement, no sanctions relief roadmap, and no enrichment suspension protocol with binding verification architecture will have been produced. The process will generate at least two additional ceasefire extensions and at least one 'framework for talks' or 'principles' communiqué, each of which will itself be a renewable rather than stock instrument.
  • pred-2026-04-09-191 By June 4, 2026, at least 3 US states (most likely from NY, CA, MA, IL, CO, or WA) will publicly announce or formally launch corporate securities enforcement actions or new regulatory frameworks explicitly framed in official communications — press releases, legislative testimony, or formal AG statements — as filling the enforcement vacuum created by the SEC chair's withdrawal from corporate policing.
  • pred-2026-04-10-203 By May 22, 2026, neither qualifying formal response will materialize: Beijing will not issue a state-level formal policy statement explicitly upgrading cross-strait engagement terms, and the DPP will not formally prohibit or legally constrain opposition cross-strait diplomatic contact through legislation or enforceable executive order.
  • pred-2026-04-11-211 Fidesz-KDNP retains parliamentary majority and government formation capacity in Hungary's April 2026 national vote; Péter Magyar's Tisza opposition achieves a polling-competitive performance but fails to translate vote proximity into a decisive seat majority — final governing-coalition seat share remains above 50%.
  • pred-2026-04-11-215 By June 6, 2026, at least one NATO member state will formally request renegotiation of US military base access terms or publicly announce an official government review of existing basing agreements, explicitly citing Atlantic realignment dynamics, reduced US credibility, or the Iran crisis as justification.
  • pred-2026-04-12-221 The Orthodox Easter ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine will hold at the formal threshold through April 20, 2026 — neither side will formally announce a breakdown NOR execute verified large-scale coordinated offensive operations — while tactical violations continue below the threshold of acknowledged defection.
  • pred-2026-04-12-223 The Hungarian opposition coalition led by TISZA will fail to deny Fidesz its parliamentary supermajority (≥133 seats) in the April 2026 elections — Fidesz will retain constitutional amendment capacity.
  • pred-2026-04-17-237 Hungary's post-Orbán government will NOT produce a formal public commitment to EU rule-of-law reforms sufficient for the European Commission to announce a disbursement schedule for the frozen €35bn within 14 days of 2026-04-17 (by 2026-05-01). The Hungarian government will likely signal commitment within this window; the Commission disbursement schedule announcement will not follow within it.
  • pred-2026-04-17-239 The UK government will NOT table formal primary legislation nor sign a provisional framework agreement adopting EU single market rules by 2026-05-30; the most likely outcome is a political declaration, joint working group, or scoping statement that falls short of binding regulatory commitments.
  • pred-2026-04-18-245 By May 31, 2026, no major GCC sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA/Mubadala/ADQ, Kuwait Investment Authority, or Qatar Investment Authority) will formally announce a strategic reduction in US dollar-denominated holdings or a new non-dollar allocation explicitly framed as a geopolitically-motivated portfolio rebalancing.
  • pred-2026-04-19-247 Brent crude oil will NOT close below $98/bbl on any trading day between April 21 and May 2, 2026, even if a formal US-Iran ceasefire or diplomatic breakthrough is announced during this window.
  • pred-2026-04-20-259 The Lebanon-Israel direct talks on April 24, 2026 will end without a written joint communiqué, agreed withdrawal timeline, or formal security framework within 14 days (by May 4, 2026); the most probable outcome is a procedural statement affirming 'constructive dialogue' and scheduling a follow-on session, with no binding deliverable.
  • pred-2026-04-20-261 By May 4, 2026, the US tariff refund system will face publicly documented administrative backlog, processing freeze, or formal capacity warning — sourced from CBP, USTR, a major trade publication (Journal of Commerce, Inside US Trade, Bloomberg), or a major trade association (NAM, NRF, or equivalent) — attributable to simultaneous mass filing pressure from thousands of importers at launch.
  • pred-2026-04-20-263 Iraq's ruling Shia bloc will fail to achieve both formal nomination AND parliamentary confirmation of a new prime minister by June 1, 2026, with the process remaining unresolved or stalled at the confirmation stage.
  • pred-2026-04-21-271 US-Iran nuclear negotiations will not produce a formal framework agreement or substantive joint statement with specific parameters before April 30, 2026; the most likely outcome is either a minimal procedural signal (announced next-round schedule or anodyne communiqué) or quiet continuation without formal public output — not a genuine breakthrough and not outright collapse.
  • pred-2026-04-22-279 None of the three formal challenge triggers materialize by May 6, 2026: no cabinet-level resignation directly linked to the Robbins/diplomatic-job revelations, no formal Labour leadership nomination letter signed by 20+ MPs, and no government defeat on a Commons confidence-adjacent motion.
  • pred-2026-04-22-283 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show negative real GDP growth (annualized rate below 0%), likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by a net exports collapse from pre-tariff import front-loading.
  • pred-2026-04-22-287 No written framework, parameters document, or joint statement of principles on US-Iran nuclear de-escalation will be jointly announced by June 15, 2026; talks will remain in procedural or exploratory contact phase at best
  • pred-2026-04-23-293 By August 31, 2026, the Israeli government or IDF will formally designate and announce a named military operation or permanent administrative security zone in the northern West Bank (Jenin/Tulkarem corridor or broader), distinct from ad-hoc settler-violence responses — with Operation Iron Wall (January 2025) as the established baseline, meaning any successor named operation, formal escalation of Iron Wall into a permanent administrative zone, or new cabinet/IDF designation of a 'special security zone' with published geographic scope counts as resolution.
  • pred-2026-04-23-295 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no cut or hike in the post-meeting statement.
  • pred-2026-04-23-297 A publicly confirmed kinetic naval engagement between US forces and Iranian vessels in or near the Strait of Hormuz will occur by May 7, 2026, following Trump's standing shoot order against mine-laying boats.
  • pred-2026-04-23-299 The $70bn ICE/Border Patrol funding bill that passed the Senate will be signed into law by June 18, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-24-303 The FOMC will vote to hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, with no dissents favoring an immediate cut or hike.
  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.
  • pred-2026-04-24-311 No Russian warships will be permanently stationed at, and no Russian troops will be based at, Indian military facilities under the April 2026 Russia-India pact by June 19, 2026; the pact will remain a declaratory framework without operational basing. Transient port calls or joint exercises, if they occur, do not constitute falsification.
  • pred-2026-04-27-326 A direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic contact will be publicly announced or confirmed before May 11, 2026, through any qualifying channel (formal bilateral statement, intermediary-confirmed back-channel via Oman, Russia, or Switzerland, or UN-corridor acknowledgment by any party to the exchange).
  • pred-2026-04-28-332 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds target rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, with no dissents favoring a rate cut.
  • pred-2026-05-02-338 The UK government will NOT table formal legislation, issue statutory guidance under existing public order powers, or announce an executive restriction specifically targeting categories of pro-Palestine protests by 2026-05-16. Starmer's government will sustain a rhetorical threat posture while confining actual operational restriction to case-by-case police conditions under existing Public Order Act authority, preserving categorical deniability.
  • pred-2026-05-03-342 The United States will NOT formally announce a net reduction of at least 10,000 troops stationed in Germany, Italy, or Spain by June 28, 2026 — despite Germany's 'anticipated' withdrawal signal and Spain/Italy being cited as next candidates. Withdrawal signaling will continue verbally and through informal restructuring, but no DoD-level formal announcement triggering NDAA notification thresholds will materialize within this window.
  • pred-2026-05-04-350 The UK government will NOT issue a formal diplomatic protest, summon the Israeli ambassador, or announce a policy review specifically citing the treatment of British Gaza flotilla activists requiring hospital care — within 14 days (by 2026-05-18). The government will issue at most a ministerial statement of 'serious concern' and request consular information through normal channels.
  • pred-2026-05-05-355 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, AND the post-meeting statement and Powell press conference will not signal that a rate cut is imminent (i.e., will not pre-commit to or strongly imply a June 2026 cut, defined as no shift to >70% market-implied probability of June cut immediately post-conference).
  • pred-2026-05-06-358 Brent crude oil futures will NOT decline by more than 4% within 7 days of Trump's Project Freedom pause announcement (by May 13, 2026); expected drawdown is 1–3% before stabilization or partial reversal.
  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.
  • pred-2026-05-06-363 The WHO will NOT issue a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) or equivalent formal international health alert (e.g., WHO Grade 3 Emergency with international spread finding) for the South African cruise-ship human-to-human hantavirus strain before June 17, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-07-365 By May 21, 2026, Hezbollah will neither formally declare the 2024 Lebanon ceasefire void nor launch a single retaliatory barrage exceeding 50 projectiles toward northern Israel in response to the reported Beirut strike. Sub-threshold response (drone incursions, cross-border fire under 50 projectiles, diplomatic escalation through Iranian channels) is the expected equilibrium.
  • pred-2026-05-07-369 By June 18, 2026, Israel will formally announce and initiate a large-scale ground military operation explicitly described by the Israeli military as decisive or final-phase, targeting remaining Hamas governance structures in Rafah or northern Gaza, operationally distinct from current targeted raids.
  • pred-2026-05-08-370 Labour will fail to retain the largest-party position in the Welsh Senedd following the May 2026 elections, ending its uninterrupted plurality since 1999; Plaid Cymru will emerge as the party with the most seats.
  • pred-2026-05-08-372 The United States will not conduct direct kinetic strikes on Iranian territory or Iranian military installations inside Iran by June 30, 2026; any kinetic response will remain outside Iranian borders — targeting Iranian naval vessels or oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, or Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria, or Yemen.
  • pred-2026-05-08-375 Keir Starmer will remain Labour Party leader on June 30, 2026, with no formal leadership confidence vote having been triggered at any point between May 8 and June 30, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-09-378 The United States will not issue formal sanctions, invoke Article 4 NATO consultation, or publicly demand arms control compliance from Turkey regarding its announced ICBM program by 2026-06-20. Washington will respond at most via private diplomatic channels, rhetorical 'serious concern' statements, and possibly bilateral dialogue framing — all falling short of institutionally formalized action.
  • pred-2026-05-10-382 No formal vote of no confidence or leadership contest nomination will be publicly submitted against Keir Starmer as Labour leader before 2026-05-24.
  • pred-2026-05-10-386 A subsequent round of US-Iran indirect nuclear or Hormuz-related talks will be publicly confirmed or announced before 2026-05-24, following Iran's published response to the latest US framework proposal.
  • pred-2026-05-10-387 The House Agriculture Committee will approve a reconciliation markup including SNAP spending reductions and/or new or expanded work requirements before 2026-06-30, with eligibility restrictions (categorical eligibility elimination, ABAWD expansion, or BBCE elimination) carrying the primary fiscal scoring weight alongside work requirement language.
  • pred-2026-05-11-389 The UK King's Speech (delivered within 14 days of 2026-05-11) will include at least one of: (a) a housing supply or planning reform bill, (b) an AI or digital regulation framework bill, or (c) explicit defense spending legislation — confirming that Starmer's 'bolder action' rhetoric converts into a primary legislative program signal rather than remaining soft-instrument rhetoric
  • pred-2026-05-11-392 The United States and China will not publicly issue a joint statement, framework, or communiqué specifically addressing the Iran-Hormuz crisis before May 25, 2026; any diplomatic output from Trump-Xi Iran talks will take the form of separate unilateral readouts with convergent but not jointly authored language.
  • pred-2026-05-12-396 The UK government will not table a revised welfare reform bill containing substantive conditionality or activity requirements before July 7, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-13-401 The Chalmers capital gains and negative gearing reform package will not pass the Australian Senate in its original form by May 27, 2026 — defined as: legislation either failing to reach a final Senate vote, being defeated outright, or passing only with material amendments (grandfathering of existing investment properties broadly extended, CGT discount reduction reduced by more than 10 percentage points from Chalmers' proposal, or implementation timeline delayed beyond 36 months from the bill's original schedule).
  • pred-2026-05-20-403 The UK House of Commons passes the Loyal Address following the King's Speech without a successful no-confidence amendment, on or before 2026-06-03.

• path dependence — labour-nhs identity coupling

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  • pred-2026-05-13-400 The UK King's Speech, if delivered by 2026-05-27, will include at least one piece of primary legislation explicitly targeting NHS waiting-list reduction or housing supply as a named headline domestic bill — not merely a white paper, green paper, or regulatory commitment.

• path dependence (2021-23 transitory error)

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  • pred-2026-04-19-251 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing a statement that acknowledges elevated tariff-driven inflation while citing heightened uncertainty as grounds for inaction.

• path dependence (north-douglas)

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  • pred-2026-04-25-317 The SNP will win fewer than 65 seats in the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament election, failing to secure an outright majority and producing a hung parliament requiring minority government or coalition/confidence-and-supply arrangements.

• path dependence (north/pierson)

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  • pred-2026-04-24-301 The Liberal Party of Canada under Mark Carney will win enough seats on April 28, 2026 to form government (minority or majority), and Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party will fail to form government.

• path dependence (unscr 1701)

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  • pred-2026-03-28-143 Neither a binding UNSC humanitarian access resolution (or emergency framework) specifically for Lebanon nor a formal Lebanese government Chapter VII request will be adopted or lodged by May 15, 2026. The UNSC output will be limited to non-binding language, presidential statements, or renewed UNIFIL mandate discussions.

• path dependence and institutional inertia

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  • pred-2026-05-06-359 Iranian government officials will NOT issue any formal statement or diplomatic action officially indicating openness to negotiation over Hormuz transit access before May 20, 2026 (within 14 days of the Project Freedom pause announcement)

• path dependence and institutional scar tissue

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  • pred-2026-05-03-341 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting AND issue a statement with hawkish or hold-biased forward guidance that explicitly declines to signal rate cuts in H1 2026, citing elevated inflation uncertainty from tariff pass-through and energy price pressure.

• path dependence and sunk credibility investment

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  • pred-2026-04-27-328 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing no change to the target range.

• path dependence from 2018 jcpoa withdrawal

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  • pred-2026-04-11-205 Iran will not issue a formal public statement explicitly confirming participation in a second round of US-Iran diplomatic talks by April 25, 2026, instead maintaining strategic ambiguity through hedged ministerial language while backchannel engagement continues.

• path dependence from phase 1 compliance failure

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  • pred-2026-05-12-395 The Trump-Xi summit will produce a publicly announced trade framework containing at least one of: (a) named tariff reduction percentages, (b) identified sector carve-outs, or (c) explicit numerical purchase or trade-flow targets — before May 26, 2026. Any such framework will be at most semi-binding, without operative enforcement architecture.

• path dependence from rerouting infrastructure

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  • pred-2026-04-10-201 Commercial tanker passage through the Strait of Hormuz will recover to at least 60% of pre-conflict baseline traffic volumes by April 24, 2026, following ceasefire diplomacy.

• path dependence in fiscal credibility architecture

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  • pred-2026-05-12-394 Treasurer Chalmers' 2026 Federal Budget will declare a nominal fiscal surplus AND include direct household cost-of-living transfers (energy rebates, rent assistance top-ups, targeted payment extensions) exceeding AUD 3 billion in aggregate across all line items.

• path dependence in freedom-of-navigation doctrine

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  • pred-2026-05-04-349 The US Navy will successfully coordinate the transit of at least 3 additional commercially-operated vessels through the Strait of Hormuz under naval escort between 2026-05-04 and 2026-05-14, building on the reported 2-vessel precedent and Trump's public commitment to 'guide' stranded ships.

• path dependence lock-in

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  • pred-2026-04-11-209 The KMT opposition leader's April 2026 meeting with Xi Jinping will NOT produce a publicly announced formal cross-strait dialogue proposal, joint communiqué, or institutionalized communication channel by June 5, 2026.

• path dependence of 2001 aumf as catch-all authorization

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  • pred-2026-05-12-399 No US Congressional committee will hold formal hearings specifically on an Iran AUMF authorization or advance an emergency supplemental appropriations bill specifically for Iran military operations to floor vote by June 23, 2026; any Congressional activity will be limited to non-binding oversight measures (press releases, informal briefings, or non-binding resolutions introduced but not voted).

• path dependence of donor conference template

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  • pred-2026-04-21-275 By June 16, 2026, international Gaza reconstruction pledges announced at any formal conference or donor coordination mechanism will nominally total at least $5B USD, but no operational disbursement mechanism will exist that has transferred capital to Gaza-based entities — leaving commitments as unfunded declarations without a functioning payment architecture.

• path dependence of supply chain integration

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  • pred-2026-05-08-374 The US-China trade talks currently underway will produce at least one publicly announced output — a framework agreement, a tariff reduction commitment, or a formal negotiating roadmap — by May 22, 2026.

• path dependence of uk-us 'imminent deal' cycle

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  • pred-2026-04-25-314 The King Charles visit to President Trump (by 2026-04-28) will NOT result in a formal US public announcement of tariff relief, exemption, or bilateral trade framework for UK goods by 2026-05-05. The most likely output is a joint statement with aspirational trade language and announcement of accelerated negotiations or a bilateral working group.

• path dependence on multilateralism

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  • pred-2026-04-10-197 The European Commission will NOT formally adopt a comprehensive retaliatory tariff or countermeasure package targeting US goods that clearly goes beyond existing WTO-route safeguard measures by May 31, 2026; instead, the Commission will adopt a phased framework authorization, safeguard extension, or Anti-Coercion Instrument activation notice that preserves escalation optionality without crossing the 'comprehensive, beyond WTO-route' threshold specified.

• path dependence toward intermediary formats

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  • pred-2026-05-10-384 No direct Putin-Zelensky bilateral meeting will take place, nor will confirmed dates for such a meeting be publicly announced by both parties, by 2026-06-21

• path-dependence

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  • pred-2026-03-17-019 The Bank of England MPC will hold the Bank Rate at 4.5% at its March 19-20 meeting, with a vote split of at least 7-2 (hold-cut), meaning 2 or more members dissent in favor of a 25bp cut.
  • pred-2026-03-18-027 The Eurozone composite flash PMI for March 2026 will print below 49.0, signaling economic contraction, with the manufacturing sub-index leading at 46–47 and services dragging the composite to approximately 48.2–48.8.
  • pred-2026-03-19-043 European TTF natural gas spot price will close above €45/MWh on at least 3 of the 5 trading days from March 20–26, 2026, as markets price in the confirmed 17% reduction in Qatar LNG capacity following Iranian strikes.
  • pred-2026-03-19-047 At least 2 GCC member states beyond Qatar (most likely Saudi Arabia + Bahrain or UAE) will formally downgrade, suspend, or sever diplomatic relations with Iran by May 14, 2026, following Iran's strikes on Qatari LNG infrastructure.
  • pred-2026-03-20-049 February 2026 core PCE inflation (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.7% year-over-year, exceeding the January reading and the Fed's December SEP projection of 2.6%.
  • pred-2026-03-21-055 The left-wing coalition (PS/Greens/NUPES-aligned) retains the Paris mayoralty in the 2026 municipal elections, with second-round results by March 30, 2026 confirming Hidalgo or a designated left successor as mayor with a margin of at least 3 percentage points over the leading right/centrist challenger.
  • pred-2026-03-23-081 By April 6, 2026, at least one publicly confirmed instance of direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic communication will occur — through the Omani channel, a UN interlocutor, or an official statement from any party acknowledging that talks are underway — as opposed to continued public escalation or formal rejection of negotiations on all fronts.
  • pred-2026-03-23-083 The Supreme Court of Canada will neither issue a substantive ruling striking down nor grant leave to appeal in a manner that substantially limits Quebec's Bill 21 (Act Respecting the Laicity of the State) before May 18, 2026.
  • pred-2026-03-25-103 The announced 6-day junior doctors strike in England will proceed for at least 4 of its 6 scheduled days without a government-negotiated suspension agreement.
  • pred-2026-03-27-121 The UK Spring Statement (delivered by 2026-03-31) will announce net reductions in working-age welfare benefit expenditure — framed as means-testing reforms, conditionality tightening, or efficiency measures — totalling at least £1 billion annually on OBR scoring.
  • pred-2026-03-27-125 By May 15, 2026, the EU Council will advance formal ratification proceedings without incorporating the European Parliament's stated conditions into the treaty text; those conditions will be acknowledged only through non-binding side instruments (political declarations, Commission implementation commitments, or joint interpretive statements).
  • pred-2026-03-28-137 Iran will NOT publicly announce an explicit fee structure, passage permit regime, or formal transit agreement for Strait of Hormuz commercial shipping by May 15, 2026; informal selective extraction, ad hoc escort demands, and insurance-market pressure will continue as the dominant extraction mode with no legible institutionalization.
  • pred-2026-04-11-213 By April 25, 2026, Iran will NOT satisfy both conditions simultaneously: (1) formal Iranian delegation participation in the Islamabad round AND (2) a substantive joint framework or communiqué explicitly addressing Hormuz access conditions with verifiable parameters. The joint probability of both conditions being met is approximately 8%.
  • pred-2026-04-19-249 No formal IPC Phase 5 famine declaration will be issued for any part of Gaza before May 3, 2026; current 'imminent famine' and Phase 5 risk language will persist as a stable institutional intermediate register without upgrade to formal declaration.
  • pred-2026-05-03-344 The UK government will NOT formally declare an energy emergency or extend mandatory energy rationing beyond the existing airline cancellation order by 2026-05-17; energy management will proceed through escalating sector-specific administrative orders while preserving market governance architecture.
  • pred-2026-05-09-379 Credible reports of resumed large-scale offensive operations by Russia or Ukraine will emerge before May 15, 2026, causing the ceasefire to collapse within or immediately following its stated 72-hour window.
  • pred-2026-05-10-385 Keir Starmer will neither face a formal no-confidence motion from within the Parliamentary Labour Party (requiring ≥82 MP signatures) nor publicly announce his resignation before 2026-05-24.
  • pred-2026-05-11-390 No direct US-Iran naval exchange, vessel seizure by either party, or US military strike on Iranian assets will occur within the 6-week window ending 2026-06-22; the sub-threshold harassment equilibrium holds below the direct-exchange threshold.
  • pred-2026-05-11-393 No formal no-confidence motion in Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader will be tabled by Labour MPs, and Starmer will not publicly announce his resignation as party leader, before July 6, 2026.

• path-dependence in treaty-making

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  • pred-2026-04-18-243 No formal written ceasefire framework, interim nuclear deal, or jointly-acknowledged negotiating document will be publicly announced by both the US and Iran by May 2, 2026; the Oman channel will produce at most ambiguous unilateral statements or vague claims of 'constructive' progress

• path-dependence of supply chains

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  • pred-2026-04-24-307 The BEA advance estimate of Q1 2026 real GDP growth (released ~April 30, 2026) will show negative annualized growth — a technical contraction below 0% — driven primarily by a large negative net-exports contribution from pre-tariff import front-loading, compounded by suppressed fixed investment.

• path-dependence-institutional-lock-in

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  • pred-2026-05-10-383 Within 14 days of the court ruling striking down 10% global tariffs (by 2026-05-24), the Trump administration will file an emergency stay application in federal court OR issue a new executive order reimposing substantially equivalent global tariff measures (≥8% on a broad category of imports).

• path-dependence-of-2022-exposure

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  • pred-2026-05-03-340 In the UK local elections on 7 May 2026, Labour will suffer a net loss of more than 150 council seats, and the visible internal party response will be framed as a communications or messaging failure rather than a structural reckoning with the government's economic direction.

• path-dependence-of-non-recognition

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  • pred-2026-03-24-093 By April 7, 2026, no formal public confirmation of direct or Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic talks will be issued by official representatives of any of the three governments.

• path-dependency

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  • pred-2026-03-16-011 Tanker transit volume through the Strait of Hormuz will remain at least 40% below pre-conflict baseline through June 30, 2026, with durable rerouting of Gulf crude exports toward alternative corridors (Saudi East-West Pipeline, UAE Fujairah) becoming structurally embedded regardless of formal closure status.

• path-dependent alliance solidarity

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  • pred-2026-04-13-231 By April 26, 2026, at least 3 G7 members beyond the UK will issue formal, public governmental statements declining to participate in the US Hormuz blockade — most likely Germany, Japan, and France.

• path-dependent brinkmanship doctrine

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  • pred-2026-05-02-339 Iran will not conduct a significant escalation of Hormuz commercial shipping disruption — defined as three or more vessel seizures in a 30-day window, a formally declared exclusion zone, or a mine-laying operation targeting commercial traffic — between May 2 and June 15, 2026.

• path-dependent consent extraction

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  • pred-2026-03-22-077 By May 15, 2026, the EU will formally approve a Ukraine financial support package of €35bn or more — either through Hungarian consent obtained via bilateral side-payment (cohesion fund releases or rule-of-law concessions) or through a mechanism that structurally reduces Hungary's formal veto surface (ERA instrument backed by frozen Russian asset revenues, enhanced cooperation, or G7 extraordinary-revenue vehicle).

• path-dependent coup culture

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  • pred-2026-04-27-327 By 2026-07-26 (within 90 days of Defence Minister Camara's assassination), the Malian transitional government will experience at least one of: (a) a formal military coup replacing the Goïta-led junta, (b) an officially announced dissolution or restructuring of the unified military command, or (c) a publicly acknowledged loss of administrative control over a named provincial capital. The most probable pathway is acknowledged provincial capital loss or announced command restructuring; a formal coup is the least likely criterion due to novel Wagner/AES transaction-cost constraints absent in prior Malian episodes.

• path-dependent infrastructure concentration

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  • pred-2026-03-16-007 Brent crude oil will close above $95/barrel on at least 7 of the 10 trading days spanning March 17–28, 2026, given ongoing US-Israeli strikes on Iran and continued selective Hormuz passage

• path-dependent infrastructure lock-in

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  • pred-2026-03-24-095 TTF natural gas front-month spot price will close above €75/MWh on at least 6 of the 15 trading sessions from March 25 to April 14, 2026, reflecting sustained price elevation from the combined QatarEnergy LNG force majeure and Hormuz disruption shock.

• path-dependent institutional sediment

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  • pred-2026-03-23-089 No formal ceasefire agreement or publicly announced binding de-escalation framework between Iran and the United States will be announced by May 15, 2026, whether through Pakistan, Gulf-state, or direct mediation.

• path-dependent revision norm

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  • pred-2026-03-24-091 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast downward by at least 0.5 percentage points from its Autumn 2025 Statement projection in the Spring Statement 2026 fiscal event on March 26, 2026.

• path-dependent sequencing

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  • pred-2026-04-25-313 US and Iranian envoys will NOT jointly release a written framework document — communiqué, statement of principles, or agreed enrichment parameters — by 2026-05-09, the 14-day window following expected talk commencement around 2026-05-02. Talks will produce at most a procedural signal (agreement to continue, 'constructive atmosphere' language) without a jointly signed or jointly attributed text encoding substantive commitments.

• path-dependent stabilization via resumed shipping

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  • pred-2026-04-12-225 The Iran-Hormuz ceasefire will not collapse before April 26, 2026 — neither (a) renewed Iranian military interdiction of commercial shipping nor (b) a formal US or Israeli declaration of resumed offensive operations against Iranian forces will occur within this window.

• path-dependent-risk-aversion

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  • pred-2026-05-20-405 By 2026-07-15, at least two US regulatory agencies currently experiencing confirmed leadership vacancies (including FDA following the head's resignation confirmed in May 2026) will have publicly missed a statutory deadline OR received a court ruling or published Inspector General report formally attributing documented operational failure to the vacancy cascade — with evidentiary basis in agency records, court dockets, or published IG reports.

• patriarchy

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  • The Compliance Conversion: Patriarchal Pidgin, the Auditor's Grammar, and the Court's Enforced Silence

• patron-class alliance

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  • pred-2026-04-26-321 Armed groups will NOT execute a sustained incursion into Bamako's urban core (inside the Boulevard ring road) within 8 weeks of the April 25, 2026 coordinated attacks near Bamako airport — perimeter and peri-urban pressure will continue and likely escalate, but the Boulevard threshold will not be crossed with forces operating inside the ring continuously for 48 hours or more.

• patron-client networks

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  • pred-2026-04-20-263 Iraq's ruling Shia bloc will fail to achieve both formal nomination AND parliamentary confirmation of a new prime minister by June 1, 2026, with the process remaining unresolved or stalled at the confirmation stage.

• patronage capitalism

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  • pred-2026-03-26-119 Fidesz wins at least 133 of 199 parliamentary seats in the April 2026 Hungarian election, retaining its two-thirds constitutional supermajority.

• patronage circuit degradation

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  • pred-2026-04-07-173 Lebanon's post-ceasefire government will remain formally intact through June 2, 2026 — no formal coalition withdrawal, no declared parliamentary majority loss, no cabinet dissolution — despite continued Israeli airstrikes and deepening sectarian fissures

• patronage suppression

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  • pred-2026-05-11-393 No formal no-confidence motion in Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader will be tabled by Labour MPs, and Starmer will not publicly announce his resignation as party leader, before July 6, 2026.

• patronage-network exhaustion

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  • pred-2026-04-08-185 Lebanon will experience at least one of: (a) formal government collapse with failure to form a replacement within 30 days, (b) resumption of large-scale armed conflict involving at least one non-state actor and Lebanese state forces with >50 combat deaths in a single week, or (c) internationally recognized de facto territorial partition acknowledged by 3+ UN Security Council members — by October 8, 2026.

• patronage-network malinvestment decay under eu conditionality pressure

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  • pred-2026-04-12-217 The Tisza/Magyar Péter coalition will win a sufficient number of parliamentary seats in the April 12, 2026 Hungarian elections to form a majority government without Fidesz — operationalized as securing at least 100 seats in the 199-seat National Assembly and proceeding to coalition government formation without Orbán as Prime Minister.

• patronage-network vacancy

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  • pred-2026-04-27-327 By 2026-07-26 (within 90 days of Defence Minister Camara's assassination), the Malian transitional government will experience at least one of: (a) a formal military coup replacing the Goïta-led junta, (b) an officially announced dissolution or restructuring of the unified military command, or (c) a publicly acknowledged loss of administrative control over a named provincial capital. The most probable pathway is acknowledged provincial capital loss or announced command restructuring; a formal coup is the least likely criterion due to novel Wagner/AES transaction-cost constraints absent in prior Malian episodes.

• patronage-pricing

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  • pred-2026-05-10-385 Keir Starmer will neither face a formal no-confidence motion from within the Parliamentary Labour Party (requiring ≥82 MP signatures) nor publicly announce his resignation before 2026-05-24.

• payment-mechanism-failure

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  • pred-2026-03-28-137 Iran will NOT publicly announce an explicit fee structure, passage permit regime, or formal transit agreement for Strait of Hormuz commercial shipping by May 15, 2026; informal selective extraction, ad hoc escort demands, and insurance-market pressure will continue as the dominant extraction mode with no legible institutionalization.

• pce chain-weighting methodology

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  • pred-2026-03-22-075 The BEA will report US February 2026 PCE price index year-over-year at or above 2.6% when released in the final week of March 2026.

• pce inflation

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  • pred-2026-03-26-115 The February 2026 PCE price index (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.8% year-over-year.

• pce inflation projection revision

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  • pred-2026-03-19-037 The FOMC's March 2026 SEP (released March 19) will show the median federal funds rate projection for end-2026 at 3.75–4.00% or higher (implying ≤2 cuts from 4.25–4.50%), AND the median 2026 PCE inflation projection will be revised upward from the December 2025 baseline of 2.5%.

• pce methodology

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  • pred-2026-03-22-067 The BEA's February 2026 core PCE price index release (~March 28, 2026) will show core PCE inflation at or above 2.8% year-over-year.

• pdufa-statutory-deadlines

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  • pred-2026-05-20-405 By 2026-07-15, at least two US regulatory agencies currently experiencing confirmed leadership vacancies (including FDA following the head's resignation confirmed in May 2026) will have publicly missed a statutory deadline OR received a court ruling or published Inspector General report formally attributing documented operational failure to the vacancy cascade — with evidentiary basis in agency records, court dockets, or published IG reports.

• percolation phase transition

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  • pred-2026-04-26-321 Armed groups will NOT execute a sustained incursion into Bamako's urban core (inside the Boulevard ring road) within 8 weeks of the April 25, 2026 coordinated attacks near Bamako airport — perimeter and peri-urban pressure will continue and likely escalate, but the Boulevard threshold will not be crossed with forces operating inside the ring continuously for 48 hours or more.

• percolation threshold

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  • pred-2026-04-26-323 The BLS April 2026 non-farm payrolls report (releasing approximately May 2, 2026) will show total payroll job creation below 100,000, reflecting a tariff-driven investment freeze and hiring slowdown.

• performative commitment trap

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  • pred-2026-03-29-151 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include blanket tariffs of ≥10% on imports from at least one of EU, Japan, South Korea, or Mexico.

• performative diplomacy

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  • pred-2026-05-07-367 Putin's May 9, 2026 Victory Day address and surrounding official communications through May 14 will contain neither (a) a substantive unilateral ceasefire proposal with concrete operational terms directed at Ukraine or NATO, nor (b) a formal military escalation announcement such as a new mobilization wave, a new annexation declaration of territory beyond currently claimed oblasts, or an explicit expansion of formal war aims. The address will maintain existing war-justification framing with rhetorical intensification but no structural departure in either direction. If ceasefire-adjacent language appears, it will be encoded as performative diplomacy with conditions calibrated to fail (e.g., NATO withdrawal or no-membership guarantees) rather than a genuine diplomatic initiative.

• performative legitimacy requirement imposing minimum elapsed time

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  • pred-2026-04-21-269 Iraq's Council of Representatives will NOT formally confirm a new Prime Minister by June 7, 2026; the political vacancy will extend past that date, with at most a caretaker or placeholder nomination occurring within the 7-week window.

• performative-measurement

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  • pred-2026-03-18-027 The Eurozone composite flash PMI for March 2026 will print below 49.0, signaling economic contraction, with the manufacturing sub-index leading at 46–47 and services dragging the composite to approximately 48.2–48.8.

• peripheral triangulation leverage

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  • pred-2026-04-27-326 A direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic contact will be publicly announced or confirmed before May 11, 2026, through any qualifying channel (formal bilateral statement, intermediary-confirmed back-channel via Oman, Russia, or Switzerland, or UN-corridor acknowledgment by any party to the exchange).

• peripheral-origin discount

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  • pred-2026-05-06-363 The WHO will NOT issue a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) or equivalent formal international health alert (e.g., WHO Grade 3 Emergency with international spread finding) for the South African cruise-ship human-to-human hantavirus strain before June 17, 2026.

• permissive-enclosure

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  • pred-2026-04-19-249 No formal IPC Phase 5 famine declaration will be issued for any part of Gaza before May 3, 2026; current 'imminent famine' and Phase 5 risk language will persist as a stable institutional intermediate register without upgrade to formal declaration.

• permutation

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  • The Anachronism Engine: How Permutation Operates on Memory to Convert Identity-Threat into Nostalgia
  • pred-2026-03-26-001 By October 31, 2026, the US-Iran military escalation will produce a formal Congressional war-powers vote (AUMF, War Powers Resolution, or binding constraint on Iranian military operations in at least one chamber), in which the standard partisan alignment permutes: at least 5 Republican House members or 2 Republican Senators will vote to constrain executive military authority against Iran, driven by the economic consequences of Strait of Hormuz disruption and energy price transmission to their constituents.

• permutation trap: brexit legal architecture as labyrinthine constraint that raises transaction costs without blocking aligned interests — the subject who optimizes within the constraint simultaneously reproduces it

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  • pred-2026-05-04-351 The UK government will issue a communiqué, Treasury statement of intent, or signed agreement formally associating itself with co-financing the EU's €90bn Ukraine loan package by 2026-06-01. The commitment will most likely take the form of a communiqué or bilateral statement of intent rather than a fully integrated co-financing agreement — all four frameworks agree on outcome but converge on the softer instrument as the modal form.

• perpetual-operations superiority

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  • pred-2026-05-07-369 By June 18, 2026, Israel will formally announce and initiate a large-scale ground military operation explicitly described by the Israeli military as decisive or final-phase, targeting remaining Hamas governance structures in Rafah or northern Gaza, operationally distinct from current targeted raids.

• petition trap

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  • pred-2026-05-11-389 The UK King's Speech (delivered within 14 days of 2026-05-11) will include at least one of: (a) a housing supply or planning reform bill, (b) an AI or digital regulation framework bill, or (c) explicit defense spending legislation — confirming that Starmer's 'bolder action' rhetoric converts into a primary legislative program signal rather than remaining soft-instrument rhetoric
  • pred-2026-05-11-393 No formal no-confidence motion in Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader will be tabled by Labour MPs, and Starmer will not publicly announce his resignation as party leader, before July 6, 2026.

• petition-trap

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  • pred-2026-05-10-382 No formal vote of no confidence or leadership contest nomination will be publicly submitted against Keir Starmer as Labour leader before 2026-05-24.
  • pred-2026-05-10-385 Keir Starmer will neither face a formal no-confidence motion from within the Parliamentary Labour Party (requiring ≥82 MP signatures) nor publicly announce his resignation before 2026-05-24.

• petrodollar accumulation circuit

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  • pred-2026-04-07-163 By April 14, 2026, the Pakistan-brokered US-Iran diplomatic channel will produce at least one publicly announced output — framework agreement, joint communiqué, ceasefire proposal, or confirmed follow-on talks — rather than a US military strike order or announced total diplomatic collapse with no scheduled continuation.

• petrodollar circuit

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  • pred-2026-03-27-001 By April 7, 2026, at least one of the following will occur: (a) a formal GCC joint communiqué condemning or demanding reversal of Iran's Hormuz transit fees, (b) a CENTCOM freedom-of-navigation counter-announcement or declaration regarding the transit fee, or (c) Brent crude closing above $108/barrel on at least one trading day — with Brent crossing $108 as the primary resolution pathway (est. 70% standalone probability) and a CENTCOM declaration as the secondary (est. 55% standalone), and GCC communiqué as the least likely of the three (est. 28% standalone).
  • pred-2026-05-04-349 The US Navy will successfully coordinate the transit of at least 3 additional commercially-operated vessels through the Strait of Hormuz under naval escort between 2026-05-04 and 2026-05-14, building on the reported 2-vessel precedent and Trump's public commitment to 'guide' stranded ships.
  • pred-2026-05-06-358 Brent crude oil futures will NOT decline by more than 4% within 7 days of Trump's Project Freedom pause announcement (by May 13, 2026); expected drawdown is 1–3% before stabilization or partial reversal.

• petrodollar compact

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  • pred-2026-04-13-233 By June 7, 2026, at least one major Gulf sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA, or Kuwait KIA) will publicly announce a reduction in USD-denominated asset holdings or a new allocation to non-USD reserve assets.

• petrodollar hegemony

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  • pred-2026-03-25-101 Pakistan-mediated US-Iran contacts will NOT produce a publicly announced bilateral meeting, formal ceasefire talks, or nuclear negotiation framework by April 30, 2026

• petrodollar recycling

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  • pred-2026-04-18-245 By May 31, 2026, no major GCC sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA/Mubadala/ADQ, Kuwait Investment Authority, or Qatar Investment Authority) will formally announce a strategic reduction in US dollar-denominated holdings or a new non-dollar allocation explicitly framed as a geopolitically-motivated portfolio rebalancing.

• petrodollar recycling compact

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  • pred-2026-04-12-227 By June 7, 2026, at least one major GCC sovereign wealth fund (ADIA, PIF, QIA, or KIA) will publicly announce a formal reallocation strategy reducing US-denominated asset exposure by 10%+ or establishing a new European/Swiss-domiciled investment vehicle, explicitly citing Iran-war geopolitical risk or Hormuz corridor uncertainty as justification.

• petty-bourgeois ideological coupling

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  • pred-2026-05-20-404 The Coalition will successfully force material amendments or procedural delay, preventing the 2026 Budget capital gains tax and negative gearing reform from passing in substantially its introduced form in the Australian Senate by 2026-06-03.

• phase 1 institutional precedent and compliance failure

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  • pred-2026-05-05-357 The US-China tariff standoff will persist without formal structural engagement through June 30, 2026 — no joint US-China statement on tariff negotiation, no ministerial-level or above bilateral negotiating session, and no publicly announced mutual tariff suspension on any product category will emerge before that date.

• pheic credibility-reserve logic

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  • pred-2026-05-06-363 The WHO will NOT issue a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) or equivalent formal international health alert (e.g., WHO Grade 3 Emergency with international spread finding) for the South African cruise-ship human-to-human hantavirus strain before June 17, 2026.

• pidgin

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  • The Compliance Conversion: Patriarchal Pidgin, the Auditor's Grammar, and the Court's Enforced Silence

• piece

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  • The Piece-Form: Epistemic Hedging, Intuition Suppression, and the Anachronism of Fragment-Based Knowledge

• pipeline vs. contagion distinction

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  • pred-2026-04-27-330 At least one G7 economy other than Canada will formally announce a new sovereign wealth fund or a qualifying expansion (>$10bn USD equivalent) of an existing public investment vehicle by 2026-06-22.

• plausible deniability as institutional norm

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  • pred-2026-04-12-227 By June 7, 2026, at least one major GCC sovereign wealth fund (ADIA, PIF, QIA, or KIA) will publicly announce a formal reallocation strategy reducing US-denominated asset exposure by 10%+ or establishing a new European/Swiss-domiciled investment vehicle, explicitly citing Iran-war geopolitical risk or Hormuz corridor uncertainty as justification.

• pledge-disbursement decoupling

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  • pred-2026-04-21-275 By June 16, 2026, international Gaza reconstruction pledges announced at any formal conference or donor coordination mechanism will nominally total at least $5B USD, but no operational disbursement mechanism will exist that has transferred capital to Gaza-based entities — leaving commitments as unfunded declarations without a functioning payment architecture.

• pluralism

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  • The Emergence Paradox: How the Myth of Spontaneous Order Prevents Spontaneous Order

• pmc class-fraction solidarity

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  • pred-2026-04-22-285 No UK cabinet minister will resign from government directly citing the Doyle job controversy, and no formal Labour Party no-confidence mechanism against Starmer will be triggered, before May 6, 2026.

• pmf militia economy

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  • pred-2026-04-20-263 Iraq's ruling Shia bloc will fail to achieve both formal nomination AND parliamentary confirmation of a new prime minister by June 1, 2026, with the process remaining unresolved or stalled at the confirmation stage.

• poland 2023 structural precedent as optimistic ceiling not base case

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  • pred-2026-04-12-217 The Tisza/Magyar Péter coalition will win a sufficient number of parliamentary seats in the April 12, 2026 Hungarian elections to form a majority government without Fidesz — operationalized as securing at least 100 seats in the 199-seat National Assembly and proceeding to coalition government formation without Orbán as Prime Minister.

• policy diffusion

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  • pred-2026-04-27-330 At least one G7 economy other than Canada will formally announce a new sovereign wealth fund or a qualifying expansion (>$10bn USD equivalent) of an existing public investment vehicle by 2026-06-22.

• political aphasia

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  • pred-2026-03-17-017 No publicly announced US-China presidential summit or scheduled Xi-Trump direct bilateral communication will be made by May 1, 2026. The relationship will remain in managed-tension equilibrium with back-channel activity but no formal announcement.

• political business cycle

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  • pred-2026-03-26-119 Fidesz wins at least 133 of 199 parliamentary seats in the April 2026 Hungarian election, retaining its two-thirds constitutional supermajority.

• political capital price suppression

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  • pred-2026-05-04-350 The UK government will NOT issue a formal diplomatic protest, summon the Israeli ambassador, or announce a policy review specifically citing the treatment of British Gaza flotilla activists requiring hospital care — within 14 days (by 2026-05-18). The government will issue at most a ministerial statement of 'serious concern' and request consular information through normal channels.

• political discount rate

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  • pred-2026-05-12-398 The UK government will NOT announce a formal emergency fiscal consolidation measure (unscheduled spending review, emergency budget statement, or explicit new multi-billion-pound spending cut commitment) by May 26, 2026; the government will instead deploy Chancellor statements reaffirming existing fiscal rules, coordinated Treasury-OBR messaging, and verbal commitments without concrete new cuts.

• political entrepreneurship

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  • pred-2026-05-07-369 By June 18, 2026, Israel will formally announce and initiate a large-scale ground military operation explicitly described by the Israeli military as decisive or final-phase, targeting remaining Hamas governance structures in Rafah or northern Gaza, operationally distinct from current targeted raids.

• political entrepreneurship and agenda monopoly

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  • pred-2026-05-12-399 No US Congressional committee will hold formal hearings specifically on an Iran AUMF authorization or advance an emergency supplemental appropriations bill specifically for Iran military operations to floor vote by June 23, 2026; any Congressional activity will be limited to non-binding oversight measures (press releases, informal briefings, or non-binding resolutions introduced but not voted).

• political entrepreneurship asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-05-05-354 By June 30, 2026, Germany will formally announce a multi-year defense spending pathway that explicitly meets or exceeds the NATO 2% GDP floor AND cites the Bundestag-approved Schuldenbremse exemption (or a supplementary fiscal act) as its legal-fiscal basis — rather than leaving the commitment as a vague political pledge or a government-only white paper without legislative backing.

• political entrepreneurship-delivery gap

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  • pred-2026-04-17-239 The UK government will NOT table formal primary legislation nor sign a provisional framework agreement adopting EU single market rules by 2026-05-30; the most likely outcome is a political declaration, joint working group, or scoping statement that falls short of binding regulatory commitments.

• political entrepreneurship: trading symbolic prestige for announcement currency

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  • pred-2026-04-25-314 The King Charles visit to President Trump (by 2026-04-28) will NOT result in a formal US public announcement of tariff relief, exemption, or bilateral trade framework for UK goods by 2026-05-05. The most likely output is a joint statement with aspirational trade language and announcement of accelerated negotiations or a bilateral working group.

• political grammar vs. real causal mechanism

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  • pred-2026-05-09-381 By June 30, 2026, the EU will formally pause, extend, or substantially modify its July 4 retaliatory tariff ultimatum against the US, and will cite US domestic court battles over tariff legality as a stated ground for the modification, rather than allowing the deadline to stand unchanged.

• political liquidity preference

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  • pred-2026-04-07-173 Lebanon's post-ceasefire government will remain formally intact through June 2, 2026 — no formal coalition withdrawal, no declared parliamentary majority loss, no cabinet dissolution — despite continued Israeli airstrikes and deepening sectarian fissures
  • pred-2026-04-20-263 Iraq's ruling Shia bloc will fail to achieve both formal nomination AND parliamentary confirmation of a new prime minister by June 1, 2026, with the process remaining unresolved or stalled at the confirmation stage.
  • pred-2026-04-24-311 No Russian warships will be permanently stationed at, and no Russian troops will be based at, Indian military facilities under the April 2026 Russia-India pact by June 19, 2026; the pact will remain a declaratory framework without operational basing. Transient port calls or joint exercises, if they occur, do not constitute falsification.
  • pred-2026-05-02-338 The UK government will NOT table formal legislation, issue statutory guidance under existing public order powers, or announce an executive restriction specifically targeting categories of pro-Palestine protests by 2026-05-16. Starmer's government will sustain a rhetorical threat posture while confining actual operational restriction to case-by-case police conditions under existing Public Order Act authority, preserving categorical deniability.

• political liquidity preference under radical uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-04-12-217 The Tisza/Magyar Péter coalition will win a sufficient number of parliamentary seats in the April 12, 2026 Hungarian elections to form a majority government without Fidesz — operationalized as securing at least 100 seats in the 199-seat National Assembly and proceeding to coalition government formation without Orbán as Prime Minister.

• political malinvestment (austrian)

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  • pred-2026-04-25-317 The SNP will win fewer than 65 seats in the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament election, failing to secure an outright majority and producing a hung parliament requiring minority government or coalition/confidence-and-supply arrangements.

• political market marginalism

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  • pred-2026-05-13-401 The Chalmers capital gains and negative gearing reform package will not pass the Australian Senate in its original form by May 27, 2026 — defined as: legislation either failing to reach a final Senate vote, being defeated outright, or passing only with material amendments (grandfathering of existing investment properties broadly extended, CGT discount reduction reduced by more than 10 percentage points from Chalmers' proposal, or implementation timeline delayed beyond 36 months from the bill's original schedule).

• political minsky moment

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  • pred-2026-04-27-327 By 2026-07-26 (within 90 days of Defence Minister Camara's assassination), the Malian transitional government will experience at least one of: (a) a formal military coup replacing the Goïta-led junta, (b) an officially announced dissolution or restructuring of the unified military command, or (c) a publicly acknowledged loss of administrative control over a named provincial capital. The most probable pathway is acknowledged provincial capital loss or announced command restructuring; a formal coup is the least likely criterion due to novel Wagner/AES transaction-cost constraints absent in prior Malian episodes.

• political neutrality norm

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  • pred-2026-04-18-245 By May 31, 2026, no major GCC sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA/Mubadala/ADQ, Kuwait Investment Authority, or Qatar Investment Authority) will formally announce a strategic reduction in US dollar-denominated holdings or a new non-dollar allocation explicitly framed as a geopolitically-motivated portfolio rebalancing.

• political paradox of thrift

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  • pred-2026-04-22-279 None of the three formal challenge triggers materialize by May 6, 2026: no cabinet-level resignation directly linked to the Robbins/diplomatic-job revelations, no formal Labour leadership nomination letter signed by 20+ MPs, and no government defeat on a Commons confidence-adjacent motion.
  • pred-2026-05-05-353 The Lula-Trump Washington meeting (week of May 5, 2026) will produce no formal bilateral trade instrument, explicit tariff-exemption commitment, or jointly signed framework document with operative trade language. The sole substantive output will be a ceremonial joint statement with non-binding aspirational language (e.g., 'exploring enhanced cooperation,' sector-level working groups) and no enforceable tariff provisions.

• political pressure asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-04-24-303 The FOMC will vote to hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, with no dissents favoring an immediate cut or hike.

• political price revelation

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  • pred-2026-05-12-396 The UK government will not table a revised welfare reform bill containing substantive conditionality or activity requirements before July 7, 2026.

• political price signal

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  • pred-2026-03-29-147 The US Department of Defense (via CENTCOM) will publicly confirm at least one new offensive airstrike against Houthi military infrastructure in Yemen between 2026-03-29 and 2026-04-05, citing the Houthi opening of a new operational front.

• political price signals

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  • pred-2026-05-11-389 The UK King's Speech (delivered within 14 days of 2026-05-11) will include at least one of: (a) a housing supply or planning reform bill, (b) an AI or digital regulation framework bill, or (c) explicit defense spending legislation — confirming that Starmer's 'bolder action' rhetoric converts into a primary legislative program signal rather than remaining soft-instrument rhetoric

• political seigniorage

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  • pred-2026-04-21-267 By May 5, 2026, neither the US nor Iran will publicly acknowledge the reported Islamabad back-channel talks through any jointly recognized framework, agreed formal agenda, or confirmed next-round meeting date; the public-denial/back-channel split will persist without official acknowledgment from either Tehran or Washington.

• political time-preference asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-05-12-395 The Trump-Xi summit will produce a publicly announced trade framework containing at least one of: (a) named tariff reduction percentages, (b) identified sector carve-outs, or (c) explicit numerical purchase or trade-flow targets — before May 26, 2026. Any such framework will be at most semi-binding, without operative enforcement architecture.

• political trickster circuit

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  • pred-2026-05-04-346 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, maintaining the current target range without adjustment of any magnitude.

• politically-contingent fictitious capital

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  • pred-2026-04-26-324 Within six weeks of the confirmed Orbán coalition election defeat (by 2026-06-07), the Hungarian forint will depreciate more than 8% against the euro, measured from the EUR/HUF rate on the day of confirmed defeat.

• post-brexit trade friction path dependence

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  • pred-2026-03-18-033 The OBR forecast published at the UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will show UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Budget forecast

• post-election government formation

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  • pred-2026-04-17-237 Hungary's post-Orbán government will NOT produce a formal public commitment to EU rule-of-law reforms sufficient for the European Commission to announce a disbursement schedule for the frozen €35bn within 14 days of 2026-04-17 (by 2026-05-01). The Hungarian government will likely signal commitment within this window; the Commission disbursement schedule announcement will not follow within it.

• post-ldi reform as reflexive amplification dampener (institutionalist corrective)

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  • pred-2026-05-13-402 UK 10-year gilt yields will breach 5.5% at least once during the period May 13 – July 8, 2026, as compound political-fiscal stress from the Starmer ministerial crisis reinforces the pre-existing 27-year high borrowing cost trajectory.

• post-transitory path dependence

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  • pred-2026-03-19-037 The FOMC's March 2026 SEP (released March 19) will show the median federal funds rate projection for end-2026 at 3.75–4.00% or higher (implying ≤2 cuts from 4.25–4.50%), AND the median 2026 PCE inflation projection will be revised upward from the December 2025 baseline of 2.5%.

• poujadist pattern

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  • pred-2026-04-21-265 Reform UK will finish in second place ahead of the Conservative Party in the Birmingham by-election, while Labour retains the seat with a majority below 5,000 votes

• ppera path dependence

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  • pred-2026-03-25-107 The UK government's proposed ban on cryptocurrency political donations will pass second reading in the House of Commons by 15 May 2026.

• pre-announcement lock-in via stockpiling and supply-chain restructuring

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  • pred-2026-03-26-109 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include a publicly stated blanket tariff rate of 10% or higher on EU goods in non-automotive, non-steel sectors, confirmed in official White House or Federal Register communication on or before April 4, 2026.

• pre-commitment signal

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  • pred-2026-05-12-397 The Australian Labor government's negative gearing and capital gains tax reform measures as announced in Budget 2026 will survive 14 days of parliamentary scrutiny through May 26, 2026, without the government publicly offering major concessions — defined as explicit scope reduction, new grandfathering provisions not present in the original budget announcement, or phase-in timeline extension — to crossbenchers or the opposition in response to parliamentary pressure.

• pre-election senate composition

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  • pred-2026-05-13-401 The Chalmers capital gains and negative gearing reform package will not pass the Australian Senate in its original form by May 27, 2026 — defined as: legislation either failing to reach a final Senate vote, being defeated outright, or passing only with material amendments (grandfathering of existing investment properties broadly extended, CGT discount reduction reduced by more than 10 percentage points from Chalmers' proposal, or implementation timeline delayed beyond 36 months from the bill's original schedule).

• pre-revelation vs. revelation phase

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  • pred-2026-04-21-273 The Starmer government will NOT experience a frontbench resignation or announce a by-election tied specifically to the Robbins/Mandelson vetting scandal within 14 days (by May 5, 2026); accountability pressure will be channeled into parliamentary scrutiny without producing institutional rupture.

• pre-staged deliverable

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  • pred-2026-05-05-353 The Lula-Trump Washington meeting (week of May 5, 2026) will produce no formal bilateral trade instrument, explicit tariff-exemption commitment, or jointly signed framework document with operative trade language. The sole substantive output will be a ceremonial joint statement with non-binding aspirational language (e.g., 'exploring enhanced cooperation,' sector-level working groups) and no enforceable tariff provisions.

• pre-statement fiscal coordination

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  • pred-2026-03-29-153 The OBR's Spring Statement (March 31, 2026) will publish a UK 2026 GDP growth forecast strictly below 1.0%.

• precautionary demand paradox

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  • pred-2026-03-21-059 TTF natural gas spot prices will average above €55/MWh across the April 1–28, 2026 window, driven by Qatar LNG facility strike and sustained Gulf conflict disruption to spot cargo flows into Europe.

• precautionary demand surge

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  • pred-2026-03-24-095 TTF natural gas front-month spot price will close above €75/MWh on at least 6 of the 15 trading sessions from March 25 to April 14, 2026, reflecting sustained price elevation from the combined QatarEnergy LNG force majeure and Hormuz disruption shock.

• precautionary hoarding

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  • pred-2026-04-13-229 Brent crude oil will close above $100/barrel on at least 4 of the 5 trading days from April 14–18, 2026, given the announced US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

• precautionary saving paradox

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  • pred-2026-04-25-316 The BEA advance estimate released April 30, 2026 will show Q1 2026 real GDP growth as negative (below 0.0% annualized), with a point estimate in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading surge mechanically compressing the net-exports component and secondarily by consumer spending deceleration.

• precedent trap

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  • pred-2026-05-04-350 The UK government will NOT issue a formal diplomatic protest, summon the Israeli ambassador, or announce a policy review specifically citing the treatment of British Gaza flotilla activists requiring hospital care — within 14 days (by 2026-05-18). The government will issue at most a ministerial statement of 'serious concern' and request consular information through normal channels.

• precedent-spillover

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  • pred-2026-03-25-103 The announced 6-day junior doctors strike in England will proceed for at least 4 of its 6 scheduled days without a government-negotiated suspension agreement.

• precision siege

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  • pred-2026-03-28-143 Neither a binding UNSC humanitarian access resolution (or emergency framework) specifically for Lebanon nor a formal Lebanese government Chapter VII request will be adopted or lodged by May 15, 2026. The UNSC output will be limited to non-binding language, presidential statements, or renewed UNIFIL mandate discussions.
  • pred-2026-03-29-149 HM Government will formally announce at least two material privatization initiatives — including NHS trust transfers, public utility stake disposals, public land sales, infrastructure fund transfers, or functionally equivalent arm's-length asset transfers denominated as fiscal consolidation measures — by 2026-12-31, even if not labeled 'privatization' in ministerial statements.

• prediction-validation-closure

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  • pred-2026-04-11-207 The UK government will NOT publicly announce or formally confirm a specific named military deployment or coalition mission mandate targeting Strait of Hormuz shipping security by April 25, 2026 — diplomatic language about 'discussions,' 'contingency planning,' or 'enhanced presence' does not satisfy the criterion.

• preference falsification

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  • pred-2026-03-26-119 Fidesz wins at least 133 of 199 parliamentary seats in the April 2026 Hungarian election, retaining its two-thirds constitutional supermajority.

• preference falsification and discontinuous tipping-point collapse

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  • pred-2026-04-12-217 The Tisza/Magyar Péter coalition will win a sufficient number of parliamentary seats in the April 12, 2026 Hungarian elections to form a majority government without Fidesz — operationalized as securing at least 100 seats in the 199-seat National Assembly and proceeding to coalition government formation without Orbán as Prime Minister.

• preference revelation

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  • pred-2026-05-07-364 Labour will lose net control of at least 3 councils and at least 150 council seats in the May 7, 2026 UK local elections, confirming a major Reform/Green pincer surge.

• preparatory track vs. summit-as-signing-ceremony

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  • pred-2026-05-12-395 The Trump-Xi summit will produce a publicly announced trade framework containing at least one of: (a) named tariff reduction percentages, (b) identified sector carve-outs, or (c) explicit numerical purchase or trade-flow targets — before May 26, 2026. Any such framework will be at most semi-binding, without operative enforcement architecture.

• price discovery event

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  • pred-2026-04-07-173 Lebanon's post-ceasefire government will remain formally intact through June 2, 2026 — no formal coalition withdrawal, no declared parliamentary majority loss, no cabinet dissolution — despite continued Israeli airstrikes and deepening sectarian fissures

• price discovery under heterogeneous beliefs

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  • pred-2026-05-06-358 Brent crude oil futures will NOT decline by more than 4% within 7 days of Trump's Project Freedom pause announcement (by May 13, 2026); expected drawdown is 1–3% before stabilization or partial reversal.

• price signal corruption under intervention

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  • pred-2026-04-24-307 The BEA advance estimate of Q1 2026 real GDP growth (released ~April 30, 2026) will show negative annualized growth — a technical contraction below 0% — driven primarily by a large negative net-exports contribution from pre-tariff import front-loading, compounded by suppressed fixed investment.

• price-discovery

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  • pred-2026-05-03-343 A fourth formal round of Iran-US nuclear negotiations will NOT be publicly announced or formally scheduled by 2026-05-17, despite the US having formally responded to Iran's latest peace proposal.

• price-inelastic-demand

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  • pred-2026-03-19-043 European TTF natural gas spot price will close above €45/MWh on at least 3 of the 5 trading days from March 20–26, 2026, as markets price in the confirmed 17% reduction in Qatar LNG capacity following Iranian strikes.

• price-setting norm inertia

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  • pred-2026-04-07-169 US headline CPI for March 2026 will print at or above 3.5% year-over-year when released approximately April 10, 2026.

• price-signal cascade

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  • pred-2026-05-08-374 The US-China trade talks currently underway will produce at least one publicly announced output — a framework agreement, a tariff reduction commitment, or a formal negotiating roadmap — by May 22, 2026.

• price-signal suppression via energy rebates

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  • pred-2026-05-12-394 Treasurer Chalmers' 2026 Federal Budget will declare a nominal fiscal surplus AND include direct household cost-of-living transfers (energy rebates, rent assistance top-ups, targeted payment extensions) exceeding AUD 3 billion in aggregate across all line items.

• primitive accumulation

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  • pred-2026-04-23-293 By August 31, 2026, the Israeli government or IDF will formally designate and announce a named military operation or permanent administrative security zone in the northern West Bank (Jenin/Tulkarem corridor or broader), distinct from ad-hoc settler-violence responses — with Operation Iron Wall (January 2025) as the established baseline, meaning any successor named operation, formal escalation of Iron Wall into a permanent administrative zone, or new cabinet/IDF designation of a 'special security zone' with published geographic scope counts as resolution.

• primitive accumulation imperative

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  • pred-2026-04-25-315 The Lebanon ceasefire extended ~2026-04-21 will NOT collapse before its scheduled expiry (~2026-05-12) through a major Israeli ground operation launch or formal escalation declaration; instead it will reach expiry through incremental erosion, quiet non-renewal, or a brief additional extension.

• primitive accumulation without closure

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  • pred-2026-05-07-369 By June 18, 2026, Israel will formally announce and initiate a large-scale ground military operation explicitly described by the Israeli military as decisive or final-phase, targeting remaining Hamas governance structures in Rafah or northern Gaza, operationally distinct from current targeted raids.

• principal-agent legitimacy gap

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  • pred-2026-04-11-209 The KMT opposition leader's April 2026 meeting with Xi Jinping will NOT produce a publicly announced formal cross-strait dialogue proposal, joint communiqué, or institutionalized communication channel by June 5, 2026.

• principal-agent problem (irgcn tactical units)

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  • pred-2026-04-23-297 A publicly confirmed kinetic naval engagement between US forces and Iranian vessels in or near the Strait of Hormuz will occur by May 7, 2026, following Trump's standing shoot order against mine-laying boats.

• private-credit-expansion

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  • pred-2026-03-20-049 February 2026 core PCE inflation (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.7% year-over-year, exceeding the January reading and the Fed's December SEP projection of 2.6%.

• privatization ratchet

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  • pred-2026-03-29-149 HM Government will formally announce at least two material privatization initiatives — including NHS trust transfers, public utility stake disposals, public land sales, infrastructure fund transfers, or functionally equivalent arm's-length asset transfers denominated as fiscal consolidation measures — by 2026-12-31, even if not labeled 'privatization' in ministerial statements.

• procedural absorption

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  • pred-2026-04-19-255 The UK 'Starmer cover-up' controversy will remain contained as a media/parliamentary questions event with no vote of no confidence, no formal police referral gaining institutional traction, and no statutory inquiry announcement by May 3, 2026.

• procedural grammar absorption

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  • pred-2026-05-10-382 No formal vote of no confidence or leadership contest nomination will be publicly submitted against Keir Starmer as Labour leader before 2026-05-24.

• procedural substitution

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  • pred-2026-04-20-259 The Lebanon-Israel direct talks on April 24, 2026 will end without a written joint communiqué, agreed withdrawal timeline, or formal security framework within 14 days (by May 4, 2026); the most probable outcome is a procedural statement affirming 'constructive dialogue' and scheduling a follow-on session, with no binding deliverable.

• procedural-timeline

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  • pred-2026-03-23-083 The Supreme Court of Canada will neither issue a substantive ruling striking down nor grant leave to appeal in a manner that substantially limits Quebec's Bill 21 (Act Respecting the Laicity of the State) before May 18, 2026.

• process rent

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  • pred-2026-05-08-372 The United States will not conduct direct kinetic strikes on Iranian territory or Iranian military installations inside Iran by June 30, 2026; any kinetic response will remain outside Iranian borders — targeting Iranian naval vessels or oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, or Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria, or Yemen.

• process-rent

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  • pred-2026-04-12-221 The Orthodox Easter ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine will hold at the formal threshold through April 20, 2026 — neither side will formally announce a breakdown NOR execute verified large-scale coordinated offensive operations — while tactical violations continue below the threshold of acknowledged defection.
  • pred-2026-04-13-229 Brent crude oil will close above $100/barrel on at least 4 of the 5 trading days from April 14–18, 2026, given the announced US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
  • pred-2026-04-21-271 US-Iran nuclear negotiations will not produce a formal framework agreement or substantive joint statement with specific parameters before April 30, 2026; the most likely outcome is either a minimal procedural signal (announced next-round schedule or anodyne communiqué) or quiet continuation without formal public output — not a genuine breakthrough and not outright collapse.
  • pred-2026-05-02-337 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, maintaining the current target range with no cut and no hike, citing elevated supply-side inflation and 'heightened uncertainty' as grounds for continued data-dependence.

• process-rent diplomacy

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  • pred-2026-04-18-243 No formal written ceasefire framework, interim nuclear deal, or jointly-acknowledged negotiating document will be publicly announced by both the US and Iran by May 2, 2026; the Oman channel will produce at most ambiguous unilateral statements or vague claims of 'constructive' progress

• process-rent exhaustion

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  • pred-2026-04-12-225 The Iran-Hormuz ceasefire will not collapse before April 26, 2026 — neither (a) renewed Iranian military interdiction of commercial shipping nor (b) a formal US or Israeli declaration of resumed offensive operations against Iranian forces will occur within this window.

• process-rent extraction

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  • pred-2026-04-24-307 The BEA advance estimate of Q1 2026 real GDP growth (released ~April 30, 2026) will show negative annualized growth — a technical contraction below 0% — driven primarily by a large negative net-exports contribution from pre-tariff import front-loading, compounded by suppressed fixed investment.
  • pred-2026-04-26-321 Armed groups will NOT execute a sustained incursion into Bamako's urban core (inside the Boulevard ring road) within 8 weeks of the April 25, 2026 coordinated attacks near Bamako airport — perimeter and peri-urban pressure will continue and likely escalate, but the Boulevard threshold will not be crossed with forces operating inside the ring continuously for 48 hours or more.
  • pred-2026-04-28-333 The US and Iran will NOT announce a formal written framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program before June 23, 2026; the diplomatic channel will remain in 'talks continuing' ambiguity mode throughout the window.

• process-stabilization function

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  • pred-2026-04-19-253 The US-Pakistan-Iran diplomatic track will NOT produce a publicly announced tangible output — no joint communiqué, agreed framework, or confirmed next round of direct/indirect talks — by May 3, 2026; the ceiling outcome is an informal 'constructive discussions' readout below the threshold of tangible diplomatic product.

• processing

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  • pred-2026-04-11-001 US initial weekly jobless claims for the week ending April 12, 2026 (reported Thursday April 17, 2026) will remain below 250,000 seasonally adjusted.

• procurement substitution trajectory

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  • pred-2026-04-24-311 No Russian warships will be permanently stationed at, and no Russian troops will be based at, Indian military facilities under the April 2026 Russia-India pact by June 19, 2026; the pact will remain a declaratory framework without operational basing. Transient port calls or joint exercises, if they occur, do not constitute falsification.

• productive ambiguity

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  • pred-2026-04-10-203 By May 22, 2026, neither qualifying formal response will materialize: Beijing will not issue a state-level formal policy statement explicitly upgrading cross-strait engagement terms, and the DPP will not formally prohibit or legally constrain opposition cross-strait diplomatic contact through legislation or enforceable executive order.

• productive ambiguity as equilibrium outcome

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  • pred-2026-04-11-209 The KMT opposition leader's April 2026 meeting with Xi Jinping will NOT produce a publicly announced formal cross-strait dialogue proposal, joint communiqué, or institutionalized communication channel by June 5, 2026.

• professional-managerial class substitution

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  • pred-2026-04-21-265 Reform UK will finish in second place ahead of the Conservative Party in the Birmingham by-election, while Labour retains the seat with a majority below 5,000 votes

• profit syntax

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  • pred-2026-03-29-149 HM Government will formally announce at least two material privatization initiatives — including NHS trust transfers, public utility stake disposals, public land sales, infrastructure fund transfers, or functionally equivalent arm's-length asset transfers denominated as fiscal consolidation measures — by 2026-12-31, even if not labeled 'privatization' in ministerial statements.

• profit-led-inflation

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  • pred-2026-03-26-111 The US Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE inflation (ex food and energy) at or above 2.7% year-over-year when released on March 28, 2026, materially complicating the FOMC's projected 2026 rate-cut path by causing a deferral of the anticipated June 2026 cut.

• profit-margin-compression

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  • pred-2026-03-28-139 The US March 2026 non-farm payrolls report (released April 3, 2026) will show job gains BELOW 150,000, while the unemployment rate holds at or below 4.2% — producing a split resolution where employment growth disappoints but the headline unemployment rate appears stable due to labor-supply contraction rather than demand recovery.

• profit-price spiral

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  • pred-2026-03-22-067 The BEA's February 2026 core PCE price index release (~March 28, 2026) will show core PCE inflation at or above 2.8% year-over-year.
  • pred-2026-05-11-388 The US CPI release on approximately May 12-14, 2026 (measuring April 2026 price levels) will show headline year-over-year inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating that tariff pass-through has cleared the institutional absorption buffers within 8-10 weeks of the April 2026 tariff escalation.

• proof-regime

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  • pred-2026-03-17-019 The Bank of England MPC will hold the Bank Rate at 4.5% at its March 19-20 meeting, with a vote split of at least 7-2 (hold-cut), meaning 2 or more members dissent in favor of a 25bp cut.

• proof-regime boundary

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  • pred-2026-03-22-067 The BEA's February 2026 core PCE price index release (~March 28, 2026) will show core PCE inflation at or above 2.8% year-over-year.

• property

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  • The Evidentiary Constitution of Property: Tribunal, Omen, and the Insurrection Threshold

• property rights ambiguity

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  • pred-2026-04-12-221 The Orthodox Easter ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine will hold at the formal threshold through April 20, 2026 — neither side will formally announce a breakdown NOR execute verified large-scale coordinated offensive operations — while tactical violations continue below the threshold of acknowledged defection.

• property rights re-specification

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  • pred-2026-05-12-397 The Australian Labor government's negative gearing and capital gains tax reform measures as announced in Budget 2026 will survive 14 days of parliamentary scrutiny through May 26, 2026, without the government publicly offering major concessions — defined as explicit scope reduction, new grandfathering provisions not present in the original budget announcement, or phase-in timeline extension — to crossbenchers or the opposition in response to parliamentary pressure.

• property rights shock (russia 2022)

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  • pred-2026-04-18-245 By May 31, 2026, no major GCC sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA/Mubadala/ADQ, Kuwait Investment Authority, or Qatar Investment Authority) will formally announce a strategic reduction in US dollar-denominated holdings or a new non-dollar allocation explicitly framed as a geopolitically-motivated portfolio rebalancing.

• property rights vacuum

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  • pred-2026-04-21-275 By June 16, 2026, international Gaza reconstruction pledges announced at any formal conference or donor coordination mechanism will nominally total at least $5B USD, but no operational disbursement mechanism will exist that has transferred capital to Gaza-based entities — leaving commitments as unfunded declarations without a functioning payment architecture.

• property-rights degradation

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  • pred-2026-04-28-331 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show annualized real GDP growth below 1.0%, driven by a negative net-exports drag from tariff-anticipation import front-loading and suppressed gross private fixed investment from tariff-uncertainty-induced capital deferral.

• property-rights entrenchment

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  • pred-2026-05-11-389 The UK King's Speech (delivered within 14 days of 2026-05-11) will include at least one of: (a) a housing supply or planning reform bill, (b) an AI or digital regulation framework bill, or (c) explicit defense spending legislation — confirming that Starmer's 'bolder action' rhetoric converts into a primary legislative program signal rather than remaining soft-instrument rhetoric

• property-rights lock-in

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  • pred-2026-05-20-404 The Coalition will successfully force material amendments or procedural delay, preventing the 2026 Budget capital gains tax and negative gearing reform from passing in substantially its introduced form in the Australian Senate by 2026-06-03.

• property-rights-defense

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  • pred-2026-05-04-348 By June 15, 2026 (six weeks after Mélenchon's announcement), at least one of PS, PCF, or EELV will have issued a formal public statement — via party leadership, national bureau, or official spokesperson — either endorsing Mélenchon's candidacy or explicitly opposing it / demanding a negotiated primary process.

• property-rights-dispute

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  • pred-2026-05-09-379 Credible reports of resumed large-scale offensive operations by Russia or Ukraine will emerge before May 15, 2026, causing the ceasefire to collapse within or immediately following its stated 72-hour window.

• provides

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  • pred-2026-04-22-001 By July 31, 2026, the ongoing US-Iran Hormuz confrontation will have provided the political authorization for at least one invocation of emergency executive authority — Defense Production Act (DPA), International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), or Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) emergency drawdown — explicitly linked to Persian Gulf supply disruption, demonstrating the structural mechanism by which near-war states provide institutional authorization that would face prohibitive political resistance during peacetime.

• provincial monitoring failure

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  • pred-2026-04-27-327 By 2026-07-26 (within 90 days of Defence Minister Camara's assassination), the Malian transitional government will experience at least one of: (a) a formal military coup replacing the Goïta-led junta, (b) an officially announced dissolution or restructuring of the unified military command, or (c) a publicly acknowledged loss of administrative control over a named provincial capital. The most probable pathway is acknowledged provincial capital loss or announced command restructuring; a formal coup is the least likely criterion due to novel Wagner/AES transaction-cost constraints absent in prior Malian episodes.

• provisional-application

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  • pred-2026-03-27-125 By May 15, 2026, the EU Council will advance formal ratification proceedings without incorporating the European Parliament's stated conditions into the treaty text; those conditions will be acknowledged only through non-binding side instruments (political declarations, Commission implementation commitments, or joint interpretive statements).

• provisioning embargo

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  • pred-2026-03-29-147 The US Department of Defense (via CENTCOM) will publicly confirm at least one new offensive airstrike against Houthi military infrastructure in Yemen between 2026-03-29 and 2026-04-05, citing the Houthi opening of a new operational front.

• provisioning ratchet

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  • pred-2026-03-25-097 The OBR Spring Statement (March 26, 2026) will certify UK fiscal headroom below £5bn against the stability rule, most likely in the £1–3bn range; the Chancellor will maintain nominal compliance through within-rule accounting flexibility (investment/current reclassification, forecast-year adjustment, or spending timing shifts) rather than announcing a formal named revision to the stability rule itself.

• provisioning-embargo

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  • pred-2026-03-25-103 The announced 6-day junior doctors strike in England will proceed for at least 4 of its 6 scheduled days without a government-negotiated suspension agreement.

• proxy as proletarianized warfare

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  • pred-2026-03-18-031 Iran or an Iran-directed proxy will execute a publicly confirmed kinetic attack on Gulf Arab energy infrastructure (oil/gas facilities, pipelines, export terminals, or refinery complexes) by April 1, 2026.

• proxy collective-action failure

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  • pred-2026-04-08-181 The US-Iran ceasefire will hold through April 22, 2026, without either US or Iranian forces conducting offensive strikes against each other's assets or proxies at brigade scale or above; sub-threshold proxy incidents will occur but will not trigger principal-level escalation.

• proxy malinvestment depletion

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  • pred-2026-04-06-159 Israel will publicly and explicitly acknowledge conducting at least one direct kinetic military strike on Iranian sovereign territory before April 20, 2026.

• proxy-capital alignment

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  • pred-2026-05-09-377 At least one qualifying event will occur between 2026-05-09 and 2026-05-16: Russia formally announcing a new operational phase or mandatory mobilization expansion, OR Ukraine conducting a publicized cross-border strategic strike on Russian territory.

• proxy-network-attrition

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  • pred-2026-03-19-039 Between March 19 and April 2, 2026, Iranian state forces (IRGC or Iranian military, not proxies) will execute at least one direct ballistic missile or drone strike explicitly claimed by Iran against Israeli military installations or US military assets in the Middle East region, following the killing of intelligence chief Khatib and Ali Larijani.

• public choice asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-03-23-085 The April 2, 2026 'Liberation Day' reciprocal tariff announcement will include a universal baseline tariff of 10% or higher applied to all US imports regardless of country of origin.

• public choice concentrated benefits

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  • pred-2026-03-29-151 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include blanket tariffs of ≥10% on imports from at least one of EU, Japan, South Korea, or Mexico.

• pull-forward-cliff

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  • pred-2026-03-18-027 The Eurozone composite flash PMI for March 2026 will print below 49.0, signaling economic contraction, with the manufacturing sub-index leading at 46–47 and services dragging the composite to approximately 48.2–48.8.

• punctuated equilibrium in governance

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  • pred-2026-04-07-167 No formal US government instrument — whether executive order, DoD directive, or binding interagency framework — explicitly delineating permitted versus prohibited uses of commercial AI systems in military and civilian government contexts will be issued by May 31, 2026; the Pentagon-Anthropic dispute will instead resolve through bilateral contract modification, informal DoD guidance, or non-binding working-group output that preserves administrative optionality.

• push-on-a-string transmission failure

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  • pred-2026-04-24-303 The FOMC will vote to hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, with no dissents favoring an immediate cut or hike.

• q1 seasonal adjustment artifacts

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  • pred-2026-04-26-319 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 GDP (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized quarter-over-quarter growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.5% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading statistical drag from tariff anticipation and compounded by capital investment deferral and fiscal contraction.

• qualified majority voting

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  • pred-2026-04-10-197 The European Commission will NOT formally adopt a comprehensive retaliatory tariff or countermeasure package targeting US goods that clearly goes beyond existing WTO-route safeguard measures by May 31, 2026; instead, the Commission will adopt a phased framework authorization, safeguard extension, or Anti-Coercion Instrument activation notice that preserves escalation optionality without crossing the 'comprehensive, beyond WTO-route' threshold specified.

• quantum

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  • pred-2026-03-13-001 Initial jobless claims for the week ending March 15, 2026 (reported Thursday March 20, 2026) will remain below 235,000.

• quorum trap

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  • pred-2026-05-08-375 Keir Starmer will remain Labour Party leader on June 30, 2026, with no formal leadership confidence vote having been triggered at any point between May 8 and June 30, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-11-393 No formal no-confidence motion in Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader will be tabled by Labour MPs, and Starmer will not publicly announce his resignation as party leader, before July 6, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-20-403 The UK House of Commons passes the Loyal Address following the King's Speech without a successful no-confidence amendment, on or before 2026-06-03.

• quorum-trap

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  • pred-2026-05-04-348 By June 15, 2026 (six weeks after Mélenchon's announcement), at least one of PS, PCF, or EELV will have issued a formal public statement — via party leadership, national bureau, or official spokesperson — either endorsing Mélenchon's candidacy or explicitly opposing it / demanding a negotiated primary process.
  • pred-2026-05-10-385 Keir Starmer will neither face a formal no-confidence motion from within the Parliamentary Labour Party (requiring ≥82 MP signatures) nor publicly announce his resignation before 2026-05-24.

• racialized-labor-stratification

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  • pred-2026-03-23-083 The Supreme Court of Canada will neither issue a substantive ruling striking down nor grant leave to appeal in a manner that substantially limits Quebec's Bill 21 (Act Respecting the Laicity of the State) before May 18, 2026.

• ratchet effect

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  • pred-2026-03-23-085 The April 2, 2026 'Liberation Day' reciprocal tariff announcement will include a universal baseline tariff of 10% or higher applied to all US imports regardless of country of origin.

• real wage compression via cost-push

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  • pred-2026-03-29-153 The OBR's Spring Statement (March 31, 2026) will publish a UK 2026 GDP growth forecast strictly below 1.0%.

• real-wage compression

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  • pred-2026-04-27-325 The BEA's advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP (scheduled for release ~April 30, 2026) will show a negative quarter-on-quarter annualized growth rate, i.e., real GDP contraction.

• recognition

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  • Policy Brief: The Journey as Recognition-Embargo — Restoring Entitlement-Accumulation in Platform, Gig, and Migration Labor
  • Policy Brief: Minting Recognition at the Boundary

• reconciliation procedure

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  • pred-2026-05-10-387 The House Agriculture Committee will approve a reconciliation markup including SNAP spending reductions and/or new or expanded work requirements before 2026-06-30, with eligibility restrictions (categorical eligibility elimination, ABAWD expansion, or BBCE elimination) carrying the primary fiscal scoring weight alongside work requirement language.

• reconstitution economics

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  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.

• reconstruction capital

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  • pred-2026-03-17-021 No publicly announced operative agreement (ceasefire extension, hostage deal, or binding framework document with operational parameters) will emerge from the Cairo talks by March 28, 2026. Any public statement issued will be a procedural communiqué or vague progress declaration without binding commitments on ceasefire duration, hostage releases, or withdrawal timelines.

• reconstruction-contract capture

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  • pred-2026-04-21-275 By June 16, 2026, international Gaza reconstruction pledges announced at any formal conference or donor coordination mechanism will nominally total at least $5B USD, but no operational disbursement mechanism will exist that has transferred capital to Gaza-based entities — leaving commitments as unfunded declarations without a functioning payment architecture.

• red sea / bab al-mandeb disruption

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  • pred-2026-04-06-157 The Bureau of Labor Statistics' March 2026 CPI report (expected release ~April 10, 2026) will show headline inflation at or above 3.5% year-over-year.

• reform-uk-as-coordination-institution

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  • pred-2026-05-03-340 In the UK local elections on 7 May 2026, Labour will suffer a net loss of more than 150 council seats, and the visible internal party response will be framed as a communications or messaging failure rather than a structural reckoning with the government's economic direction.

• regime uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-04-13-229 Brent crude oil will close above $100/barrel on at least 4 of the 5 trading days from April 14–18, 2026, given the announced US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
  • pred-2026-04-22-283 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show negative real GDP growth (annualized rate below 0%), likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by a net exports collapse from pre-tariff import front-loading.
  • pred-2026-04-26-323 The BLS April 2026 non-farm payrolls report (releasing approximately May 2, 2026) will show total payroll job creation below 100,000, reflecting a tariff-driven investment freeze and hiring slowdown.

• registrar question

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  • pred-2026-03-17-021 No publicly announced operative agreement (ceasefire extension, hostage deal, or binding framework document with operational parameters) will emerge from the Cairo talks by March 28, 2026. Any public statement issued will be a procedural communiqué or vague progress declaration without binding commitments on ceasefire duration, hostage releases, or withdrawal timelines.

• registrar-capture

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  • pred-2026-03-27-125 By May 15, 2026, the EU Council will advance formal ratification proceedings without incorporating the European Parliament's stated conditions into the treaty text; those conditions will be acknowledged only through non-binding side instruments (political declarations, Commission implementation commitments, or joint interpretive statements).

• regulatory arbitrage

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  • pred-2026-03-28-133 The US Liberation Day tariff package announced April 2, 2026 will NOT be implemented cleanly on schedule — by April 11, 2026, announced bilateral exemptions, product exclusions, implementation delays, or country-specific carve-outs will collectively affect more than 20% of the originally targeted import value.

• regulatory federalism

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  • pred-2026-04-09-191 By June 4, 2026, at least 3 US states (most likely from NY, CA, MA, IL, CO, or WA) will publicly announce or formally launch corporate securities enforcement actions or new regulatory frameworks explicitly framed in official communications — press releases, legislative testimony, or formal AG statements — as filling the enforcement vacuum created by the SEC chair's withdrawal from corporate policing.

• rehearsal

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  • Policy Brief: Governing Through the Grammar's Limit — Counterfactual Rehearsal, Contagious Shocks, and the Adaptation Trap

• relationship-governed asset

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  • pred-2026-04-26-324 Within six weeks of the confirmed Orbán coalition election defeat (by 2026-06-07), the Hungarian forint will depreciate more than 8% against the euro, measured from the EUR/HUF rate on the day of confirmed defeat.

• relative autonomy of the judicial state

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  • pred-2026-05-08-371 The Trump administration will obtain an emergency appellate stay of the Court of International Trade ruling invalidating the 10% global baseline tariffs within 14 days of that ruling (by May 21, 2026), keeping the tariffs operationally in force pending full appellate review.

• relic

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  • pred-2026-03-13-001 Initial jobless claims for the week ending March 15, 2026 (reported Thursday March 20, 2026) will remain below 235,000.
  • pred-2026-05-20-001 Over the next 18 months, institutions facing organized boycotts or sanctions campaigns will increasingly convert the boycott itself into a novelty-broadcast that extends institutional lifespan rather than forcing reform. The mechanism: 'being boycotted' functions as an externally-supplied mortality-concealment device — it provides the institution with a narrative of embattlement ('under siege,' 'targeted,' 'persecuted') that substitutes for evidence of generative function. The boycott replaces the institution's exhausted capacity to self-denominate novelty (141's embalming broadcast) with an externally-generated drama of resistance. This will be observable as a structural pattern: boycotted institutions that adopt siege-identity framing will show slower rates of internal reform, leadership turnover, and mandate renegotiation than comparable institutions facing equivalent dysfunction without boycott pressure — because the boycott supplies the institutional drama that defers mortality-recognition.

• relic-signal dynamic

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  • pred-2026-04-23-295 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no cut or hike in the post-meeting statement.

• renewable

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  • The Generational Siege: Structural Reform vs. the Aging Mandate as Conflict Dynamic

• renewable governance

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  • pred-2026-04-07-171 The US and Iran will NOT produce any written diplomatic framework, joint communiqué, or publicly announced schedule for direct negotiations by April 21, 2026 — at most a procedural readout noting talks occurred.
  • pred-2026-04-07-173 Lebanon's post-ceasefire government will remain formally intact through June 2, 2026 — no formal coalition withdrawal, no declared parliamentary majority loss, no cabinet dissolution — despite continued Israeli airstrikes and deepening sectarian fissures
  • pred-2026-04-08-175 The first round of US-Iran talks in Islamabad (approximately April 11–15, 2026) will NOT produce a publicly announced joint communiqué, agreed negotiating framework, or explicit agenda document for nuclear/sanctions discussions by April 15, 2026. The publicly observable outcome will be, at most, a vague procedural statement ('constructive atmosphere; parties agreed to continue') that avoids committing either side to a specific agenda, timeline, or negotiating framework.

• renewable vs. stock instruments

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  • pred-2026-04-08-179 By June 1, 2026, the US-Iran diplomatic process will remain in purely renewable mode: no formal framework agreement, no sanctions relief roadmap, and no enrichment suspension protocol with binding verification architecture will have been produced. The process will generate at least two additional ceasefire extensions and at least one 'framework for talks' or 'principles' communiqué, each of which will itself be a renewable rather than stock instrument.

• rent capture asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-03-15-003 At least one major G7 economy will announce new import tariffs or domestic industrial subsidies in Q2-Q3 2026 (April–September 2026) explicitly framed as 'protecting workers,' 'industrial fairness,' or equivalent labor-solidarity language, where independent distributional analysis confirms the primary economic beneficiary is an upstream extractive or capital-intensive monopoly sector rather than the downstream labor force named in the announcement.

• rent extraction

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  • pred-2026-04-06-161 De facto majority halt of commercial Bab al-Mandeb transits—defined as sustained traffic at ≤50% of pre-October 2023 baseline due to voluntary rerouting and insurance market withdrawal—will persist through May 18, 2026, without requiring a formal Houthi closure declaration.

• rent-extraction

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  • pred-2026-03-19-043 European TTF natural gas spot price will close above €45/MWh on at least 3 of the 5 trading days from March 20–26, 2026, as markets price in the confirmed 17% reduction in Qatar LNG capacity following Iranian strikes.

• rent-seeking capture

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  • pred-2026-04-10-197 The European Commission will NOT formally adopt a comprehensive retaliatory tariff or countermeasure package targeting US goods that clearly goes beyond existing WTO-route safeguard measures by May 31, 2026; instead, the Commission will adopt a phased framework authorization, safeguard extension, or Anti-Coercion Instrument activation notice that preserves escalation optionality without crossing the 'comprehensive, beyond WTO-route' threshold specified.

• rent-seeking coalition

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  • pred-2026-05-10-387 The House Agriculture Committee will approve a reconciliation markup including SNAP spending reductions and/or new or expanded work requirements before 2026-06-30, with eligibility restrictions (categorical eligibility elimination, ABAWD expansion, or BBCE elimination) carrying the primary fiscal scoring weight alongside work requirement language.

• rent-seeking pipeline

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  • pred-2026-04-10-195 At least one unannounced tariff measure — executive order imposing new duties, retaliatory product list expansion, or formal suspension of a trade exemption — will be publicly announced by either the US or China between April 10–24, 2026, without having been publicly pre-signaled before April 10.

• rentier state

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  • pred-2026-03-18-035 OPEC+ will convene an unscheduled emergency ministerial meeting OR issue a formal communiqué announcing a production policy adjustment (increase, cut, or readiness pledge) in direct response to the Gulf energy disruption by April 30, 2026.

• rentier-bourgeois fraction conflict over surplus distribution channels

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  • pred-2026-04-21-269 Iraq's Council of Representatives will NOT formally confirm a new Prime Minister by June 7, 2026; the political vacancy will extend past that date, with at most a caretaker or placeholder nomination occurring within the 7-week window.

• rentier-extraction

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  • pred-2026-03-20-049 February 2026 core PCE inflation (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.7% year-over-year, exceeding the January reading and the Fed's December SEP projection of 2.6%.

• reparation-opacity barrier

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  • pred-2026-05-04-350 The UK government will NOT issue a formal diplomatic protest, summon the Israeli ambassador, or announce a policy review specifically citing the treatment of British Gaza flotilla activists requiring hospital care — within 14 days (by 2026-05-18). The government will issue at most a ministerial statement of 'serious concern' and request consular information through normal channels.

• repositioning-paradox

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  • pred-2026-05-09-379 Credible reports of resumed large-scale offensive operations by Russia or Ukraine will emerge before May 15, 2026, causing the ceasefire to collapse within or immediately following its stated 72-hour window.

• republic

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  • pred-2026-04-11-001 US initial weekly jobless claims for the week ending April 12, 2026 (reported Thursday April 17, 2026) will remain below 250,000 seasonally adjusted.
  • pred-2026-04-13-001 The post-Hormuz period (2026-2027) will produce a measurable increase in state interventionism in energy and critical supply-chain infrastructure across advanced economies, but this interventionism will predominantly take executive-discretionary form (emergency powers, defense production acts, executive orders, strategic reserve manipulation, military deployment) rather than republican-legislative form (new statutory frameworks, regulatory bodies with public accountability, multilateral treaty arrangements). The mechanism: energy corridor fragility demonstrates that market-mediated supply is geopolitically vulnerable, creating urgent demand for state risk-bearing that the privatization wave of 1980-2020 dismantled — but because the urgency favors speed over deliberation, the state re-enters as risk-bearer through executive channels that concentrate power rather than distributing accountability. This produces a structural paradox: the state reclaims the collective risk-bearing function whose withdrawal (the DB-to-DC template of 051) was the defining institutional shift of the neoliberal period, but does so in forms that weaken rather than strengthen republican institutional integrity. Re-nationalization without republican constraint is re-feudalization under a sovereignty label.

• reputational commitment trap

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  • pred-2026-04-12-225 The Iran-Hormuz ceasefire will not collapse before April 26, 2026 — neither (a) renewed Iranian military interdiction of commercial shipping nor (b) a formal US or Israeli declaration of resumed offensive operations against Iranian forces will occur within this window.

• reservation price anchoring

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  • pred-2026-03-26-113 The United States and Iran will NOT publicly announce the opening of formal direct bilateral nuclear negotiations on or before May 15, 2026; back-channel or third-party mediation activity may intensify but will not produce a jointly acknowledged formal bilateral announcement within this window.

• reserve army of labor

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  • pred-2026-03-17-015 The US Supreme Court will NOT issue a stay or preliminary injunction halting the administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status within 14 days of the March 17, 2026 expedited argument session (resolution by 2026-03-31).
  • pred-2026-04-18-241 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 19, 2026 (released April 24) will come in at or above 225,000, reflecting cumulative disruption from tariff-driven layoffs, federal workforce reductions, and associated secondary demand contraction.
  • pred-2026-04-23-299 The $70bn ICE/Border Patrol funding bill that passed the Senate will be signed into law by June 18, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-01-335 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing forward guidance consistent with continued data-dependency and no imminent directional move.
  • pred-2026-05-10-387 The House Agriculture Committee will approve a reconciliation markup including SNAP spending reductions and/or new or expanded work requirements before 2026-06-30, with eligibility restrictions (categorical eligibility elimination, ABAWD expansion, or BBCE elimination) carrying the primary fiscal scoring weight alongside work requirement language.

• reserve buffer as forcing-mechanism neutralizer

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  • pred-2026-04-20-263 Iraq's ruling Shia bloc will fail to achieve both formal nomination AND parliamentary confirmation of a new prime minister by June 1, 2026, with the process remaining unresolved or stalled at the confirmation stage.

• reserve-army discipline

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  • pred-2026-05-12-396 The UK government will not table a revised welfare reform bill containing substantive conditionality or activity requirements before July 7, 2026.

• resistance-economy preservation

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  • pred-2026-04-20-259 The Lebanon-Israel direct talks on April 24, 2026 will end without a written joint communiqué, agreed withdrawal timeline, or formal security framework within 14 days (by May 4, 2026); the most probable outcome is a procedural statement affirming 'constructive dialogue' and scheduling a follow-on session, with no binding deliverable.

• resistance-narrative-denomination

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  • pred-2026-03-19-039 Between March 19 and April 2, 2026, Iranian state forces (IRGC or Iranian military, not proxies) will execute at least one direct ballistic missile or drone strike explicitly claimed by Iran against Israeli military installations or US military assets in the Middle East region, following the killing of intelligence chief Khatib and Ali Larijani.

• resolution asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-05-01-334 The April 2026 US nonfarm payrolls report (released May 2, 2026) will show net job creation above 150,000, with the headline number in the 160,000–195,000 range, sustained by BLS birth-death model contributions, post-pandemic labor-hoarding norms, and service-sector insulation from goods-sector tariff disruption — despite real underlying deterioration in job quality and a demand-side headwind from tariff-induced income compression and Iran war fiscal lag

• responsible-government ideology

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  • pred-2026-05-20-403 The UK House of Commons passes the Loyal Address following the King's Speech without a successful no-confidence amendment, on or before 2026-06-03.

• restoration

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  • The Clean Ledger: Bilateral Grammar, the Footnote's Subordination, and the Specie That Restoration Cannot Redeem

• retail oligopsony

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  • pred-2026-05-11-388 The US CPI release on approximately May 12-14, 2026 (measuring April 2026 price levels) will show headline year-over-year inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating that tariff pass-through has cleared the institutional absorption buffers within 8-10 weeks of the April 2026 tariff escalation.

• retaliation

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  • The Circulatory Boundary: Stranger-Domestication, Urbanization, and the Retaliatory Management of Flow

• revealed malinvestment

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  • pred-2026-03-27-127 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast to below 1.5% in the Spring Statement (due 2026-03-31), down from approximately 2.0% in the Autumn Statement 2025, citing Hormuz-driven energy costs and trade uncertainty.

• revealed preference as distributed knowledge

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  • pred-2026-04-12-225 The Iran-Hormuz ceasefire will not collapse before April 26, 2026 — neither (a) renewed Iranian military interdiction of commercial shipping nor (b) a formal US or Israeli declaration of resumed offensive operations against Iranian forces will occur within this window.

• reverse keynesian multiplier

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  • pred-2026-04-26-323 The BLS April 2026 non-farm payrolls report (releasing approximately May 2, 2026) will show total payroll job creation below 100,000, reflecting a tariff-driven investment freeze and hiring slowdown.

• reverse multiplier

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  • pred-2026-04-18-241 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 19, 2026 (released April 24) will come in at or above 225,000, reflecting cumulative disruption from tariff-driven layoffs, federal workforce reductions, and associated secondary demand contraction.

• reversed paradox of thrift

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  • pred-2026-03-22-077 By May 15, 2026, the EU will formally approve a Ukraine financial support package of €35bn or more — either through Hungarian consent obtained via bilateral side-payment (cohesion fund releases or rule-of-law concessions) or through a mechanism that structurally reduces Hungary's formal veto surface (ERA instrument backed by frozen Russian asset revenues, enhanced cooperation, or G7 extraordinary-revenue vehicle).

• rights

  1 essay · 1 prediction

  • The Split Address: Coupling, Nihilism, and the Diaspora's Dialogue Problem
  • pred-2026-03-25-001 Initial jobless claims for the week ending March 22, 2026 (reported Thursday March 27, 2026) will come in at or above 230,000 seasonally adjusted.

• risk premium

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  • pred-2026-05-06-358 Brent crude oil futures will NOT decline by more than 4% within 7 days of Trump's Project Freedom pause announcement (by May 13, 2026); expected drawdown is 1–3% before stabilization or partial reversal.

• ritual path dependence

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  • pred-2026-05-07-367 Putin's May 9, 2026 Victory Day address and surrounding official communications through May 14 will contain neither (a) a substantive unilateral ceasefire proposal with concrete operational terms directed at Ukraine or NATO, nor (b) a formal military escalation announcement such as a new mobilization wave, a new annexation declaration of territory beyond currently claimed oblasts, or an explicit expansion of formal war aims. The address will maintain existing war-justification framing with rhetorical intensification but no structural departure in either direction. If ceasefire-adjacent language appears, it will be encoded as performative diplomacy with conditions calibrated to fail (e.g., NATO withdrawal or no-membership guarantees) rather than a genuine diplomatic initiative.

• rsa/isa escalation threshold

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  • pred-2026-05-02-338 The UK government will NOT table formal legislation, issue statutory guidance under existing public order powers, or announce an executive restriction specifically targeting categories of pro-Palestine protests by 2026-05-16. Starmer's government will sustain a rhetorical threat posture while confining actual operational restriction to case-by-case police conditions under existing Public Order Act authority, preserving categorical deniability.

• rule credibility collapse

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  • pred-2026-04-22-283 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show negative real GDP growth (annualized rate below 0%), likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by a net exports collapse from pre-tariff import front-loading.

• rule-application lag

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  • pred-2026-04-23-297 A publicly confirmed kinetic naval engagement between US forces and Iranian vessels in or near the Strait of Hormuz will occur by May 7, 2026, following Trump's standing shoot order against mine-laying boats.

• rule-of-law conditionality

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  • pred-2026-04-17-237 Hungary's post-Orbán government will NOT produce a formal public commitment to EU rule-of-law reforms sufficient for the European Commission to announce a disbursement schedule for the frozen €35bn within 14 days of 2026-04-17 (by 2026-05-01). The Hungarian government will likely signal commitment within this window; the Commission disbursement schedule announcement will not follow within it.

• ruling-bloc capture

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  • pred-2026-05-01-336 Congress will not advance any war powers resolution, supplemental appropriations bill, or defunding amendment specifically addressing the Iran military operation to a committee vote by June 26, 2026.

• ruling-class optionality

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  • pred-2026-04-13-233 By June 7, 2026, at least one major Gulf sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA, or Kuwait KIA) will publicly announce a reduction in USD-denominated asset holdings or a new allocation to non-USD reserve assets.

• russian constitutional basing authorization

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  • pred-2026-04-24-311 No Russian warships will be permanently stationed at, and no Russian troops will be based at, Indian military facilities under the April 2026 Russia-India pact by June 19, 2026; the pact will remain a declaratory framework without operational basing. Transient port calls or joint exercises, if they occur, do not constitute falsification.

• s-400 precedent and caatsa non-enforcement

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  • pred-2026-05-09-378 The United States will not issue formal sanctions, invoke Article 4 NATO consultation, or publicly demand arms control compliance from Turkey regarding its announced ICBM program by 2026-06-20. Washington will respond at most via private diplomatic channels, rhetorical 'serious concern' statements, and possibly bilateral dialogue framing — all falling short of institutionally formalized action.

• sacrifice

  1 essay · 1 prediction

  • The Sacrifice-Flip: Spin, Sit-In, and the Dual Register of Cost-Bearing
  • pred-2026-05-09-001 The Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI report for April 2026 (all items, seasonally adjusted) will show a positive month-over-month change — i.e., the index will be higher than the March 2026 reading.

• sacrifice narrative naturalization

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  • pred-2026-05-07-367 Putin's May 9, 2026 Victory Day address and surrounding official communications through May 14 will contain neither (a) a substantive unilateral ceasefire proposal with concrete operational terms directed at Ukraine or NATO, nor (b) a formal military escalation announcement such as a new mobilization wave, a new annexation declaration of territory beyond currently claimed oblasts, or an explicit expansion of formal war aims. The address will maintain existing war-justification framing with rhetorical intensification but no structural departure in either direction. If ceasefire-adjacent language appears, it will be encoded as performative diplomacy with conditions calibrated to fail (e.g., NATO withdrawal or no-membership guarantees) rather than a genuine diplomatic initiative.

• sacrifice-authentication circuit

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  • pred-2026-05-07-365 By May 21, 2026, Hezbollah will neither formally declare the 2024 Lebanon ceasefire void nor launch a single retaliatory barrage exceeding 50 projectiles toward northern Israel in response to the reported Beirut strike. Sub-threshold response (drone incursions, cross-border fire under 50 projectiles, diplomatic escalation through Iranian channels) is the expected equilibrium.

• sacrifice-flip circuit

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  • pred-2026-05-04-350 The UK government will NOT issue a formal diplomatic protest, summon the Israeli ambassador, or announce a policy review specifically citing the treatment of British Gaza flotilla activists requiring hospital care — within 14 days (by 2026-05-18). The government will issue at most a ministerial statement of 'serious concern' and request consular information through normal channels.
  • pred-2026-05-09-377 At least one qualifying event will occur between 2026-05-09 and 2026-05-16: Russia formally announcing a new operational phase or mandatory mobilization expansion, OR Ukraine conducting a publicized cross-border strategic strike on Russian territory.
  • pred-2026-05-20-403 The UK House of Commons passes the Loyal Address following the King's Speech without a successful no-confidence amendment, on or before 2026-06-03.

• sanctions arbitrage circuits

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  • pred-2026-03-26-113 The United States and Iran will NOT publicly announce the opening of formal direct bilateral nuclear negotiations on or before May 15, 2026; back-channel or third-party mediation activity may intensify but will not produce a jointly acknowledged formal bilateral announcement within this window.

• sanctions architecture

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  • pred-2026-04-19-247 Brent crude oil will NOT close below $98/bbl on any trading day between April 21 and May 2, 2026, even if a formal US-Iran ceasefire or diplomatic breakthrough is announced during this window.

• sanctions architecture as extraterritorial class instrument

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  • pred-2026-05-11-392 The United States and China will not publicly issue a joint statement, framework, or communiqué specifically addressing the Iran-Hormuz crisis before May 25, 2026; any diplomatic output from Trump-Xi Iran talks will take the form of separate unilateral readouts with convergent but not jointly authored language.

• sanctions as surplus-discipline apparatus

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  • pred-2026-04-08-179 By June 1, 2026, the US-Iran diplomatic process will remain in purely renewable mode: no formal framework agreement, no sanctions relief roadmap, and no enrichment suspension protocol with binding verification architecture will have been produced. The process will generate at least two additional ceasefire extensions and at least one 'framework for talks' or 'principles' communiqué, each of which will itself be a renewable rather than stock instrument.

• sanctions-architecture constituency

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  • pred-2026-03-28-141 No publicly announced meeting, de-escalation framework, or formal diplomatic signal between the US and Iran will emerge from Pakistan's mediation by April 11, 2026; back-channel activity will continue but remain below the public announcement threshold.

• sanctions-circulation-monopoly

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  • pred-2026-03-25-105 By April 8, 2026, the US and Iran will NOT publicly confirm a scheduled direct or Oman-mediated bilateral meeting at deputy-foreign-minister level or above to discuss nuclear or military de-escalation terms.

• sanctions-economy rentierism

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  • pred-2026-04-24-305 US-Iran nuclear and sanctions negotiations will NOT produce a publicly acknowledged written framework or agreement-in-principle document by May 31, 2026. Talks will continue in back-channel form; any visible output will be verbal acknowledgments of 'progress' rather than a signed or jointly circulated text.

• sanctions-era rents

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  • pred-2026-04-08-175 The first round of US-Iran talks in Islamabad (approximately April 11–15, 2026) will NOT produce a publicly announced joint communiqué, agreed negotiating framework, or explicit agenda document for nuclear/sanctions discussions by April 15, 2026. The publicly observable outcome will be, at most, a vague procedural statement ('constructive atmosphere; parties agreed to continue') that avoids committing either side to a specific agenda, timeline, or negotiating framework.

• sanctions-premium as irgc revenue model

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  • pred-2026-04-22-277 No written framework agreement or formal joint communiqué committing both parties to continued structured negotiations will emerge from the current US-Iran talks before April 30, 2026; any public statement will be a unilateral declaration, verbal understanding, or silence — not a jointly-attributed written instrument with process commitments.

• satire

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  • pred-2026-03-11-001 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its March 18-19, 2026 meeting, maintaining the current target range.

• saudi-russia principal dyad

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  • pred-2026-03-18-035 OPEC+ will convene an unscheduled emergency ministerial meeting OR issue a formal communiqué announcing a production policy adjustment (increase, cut, or readiness pledge) in direct response to the Gulf energy disruption by April 30, 2026.

• scapegoat displacement

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  • pred-2026-03-23-085 The April 2, 2026 'Liberation Day' reciprocal tariff announcement will include a universal baseline tariff of 10% or higher applied to all US imports regardless of country of origin.

• scapegoating grammar

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  • pred-2026-03-29-151 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include blanket tariffs of ≥10% on imports from at least one of EU, Japan, South Korea, or Mexico.

• scarcity rent amplification

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  • pred-2026-03-21-059 TTF natural gas spot prices will average above €55/MWh across the April 1–28, 2026 window, driven by Qatar LNG facility strike and sustained Gulf conflict disruption to spot cargo flows into Europe.

• schelling focal point

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  • pred-2026-03-18-025 The March 2026 FOMC Summary of Economic Projections will show the median 2026 rate-cut projection at 2 or fewer cuts (a downward revision from December's 3-cut median); Powell will use energy-supply-uncertainty language that gestures at Hormuz without explicit naming. The OR compound resolves TRUE primarily through the dot-plot pathway, with explicit Hormuz citation being the uncertain secondary condition.
  • pred-2026-04-07-163 By April 14, 2026, the Pakistan-brokered US-Iran diplomatic channel will produce at least one publicly announced output — framework agreement, joint communiqué, ceasefire proposal, or confirmed follow-on talks — rather than a US military strike order or announced total diplomatic collapse with no scheduled continuation.

• schelling focal point as designed off-ramp

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  • pred-2026-05-09-381 By June 30, 2026, the EU will formally pause, extend, or substantially modify its July 4 retaliatory tariff ultimatum against the US, and will cite US domestic court battles over tariff legality as a stated ground for the modification, rather than allowing the deadline to stand unchanged.

• schelling point

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  • pred-2026-03-27-127 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast to below 1.5% in the Spring Statement (due 2026-03-31), down from approximately 2.0% in the Autumn Statement 2025, citing Hormuz-driven energy costs and trade uncertainty.
  • pred-2026-04-24-301 The Liberal Party of Canada under Mark Carney will win enough seats on April 28, 2026 to form government (minority or majority), and Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party will fail to form government.
  • pred-2026-05-01-335 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing forward guidance consistent with continued data-dependency and no imminent directional move.

• schelling point in institutional forecasting

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  • pred-2026-03-29-153 The OBR's Spring Statement (March 31, 2026) will publish a UK 2026 GDP growth forecast strictly below 1.0%.

• schelling-focal-point

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  • pred-2026-03-23-081 By April 6, 2026, at least one publicly confirmed instance of direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic communication will occur — through the Omani channel, a UN interlocutor, or an official statement from any party acknowledging that talks are underway — as opposed to continued public escalation or formal rejection of negotiations on all fronts.

• schelling-point

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  • pred-2026-03-19-047 At least 2 GCC member states beyond Qatar (most likely Saudi Arabia + Bahrain or UAE) will formally downgrade, suspend, or sever diplomatic relations with Iran by May 14, 2026, following Iran's strikes on Qatari LNG infrastructure.

• schelling-point coordination under analytical uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-05-04-346 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, maintaining the current target range without adjustment of any magnitude.

• schuldenbremse path dependency

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  • pred-2026-05-05-354 By June 30, 2026, Germany will formally announce a multi-year defense spending pathway that explicitly meets or exceeds the NATO 2% GDP floor AND cites the Bundestag-approved Schuldenbremse exemption (or a supplementary fiscal act) as its legal-fiscal basis — rather than leaving the commitment as a vague political pledge or a government-only white paper without legislative backing.

• scottish structural realignment post-2007

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  • pred-2026-04-26-320 In the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senedd, and English local elections, Labour's combined vote share in comparable contested areas falls more than 5 percentage points below its 2024 general election baseline, as measured by Electoral Commission and council/Senedd/Holyrood declared results by May 10, 2026.

• seat-bonus architecture

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  • pred-2026-04-11-211 Fidesz-KDNP retains parliamentary majority and government formation capacity in Hungary's April 2026 national vote; Péter Magyar's Tisza opposition achieves a polling-competitive performance but fails to translate vote proximity into a decisive seat majority — final governing-coalition seat share remains above 50%.

• second-order collective action trap

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  • pred-2026-04-27-326 A direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic contact will be publicly announced or confirmed before May 11, 2026, through any qualifying channel (formal bilateral statement, intermediary-confirmed back-channel via Oman, Russia, or Switzerland, or UN-corridor acknowledgment by any party to the exchange).

• second-round transfer arithmetic

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  • pred-2026-03-21-055 The left-wing coalition (PS/Greens/NUPES-aligned) retains the Paris mayoralty in the 2026 municipal elections, with second-round results by March 30, 2026 confirming Hidalgo or a designated left successor as mayor with a margin of at least 3 percentage points over the leading right/centrist challenger.

• sectoral balances identity and household cash-flow constraint

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  • pred-2026-05-12-394 Treasurer Chalmers' 2026 Federal Budget will declare a nominal fiscal surplus AND include direct household cost-of-living transfers (energy rebates, rent assistance top-ups, targeted payment extensions) exceeding AUD 3 billion in aggregate across all line items.

• security-financial bundle

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  • pred-2026-04-13-233 By June 7, 2026, at least one major Gulf sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA, or Kuwait KIA) will publicly announce a reduction in USD-denominated asset holdings or a new allocation to non-USD reserve assets.

• security-for-dollar-recycling bargain

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  • pred-2026-04-12-227 By June 7, 2026, at least one major GCC sovereign wealth fund (ADIA, PIF, QIA, or KIA) will publicly announce a formal reallocation strategy reducing US-denominated asset exposure by 10%+ or establishing a new European/Swiss-domiciled investment vehicle, explicitly citing Iran-war geopolitical risk or Hormuz corridor uncertainty as justification.

• security-state legitimacy reproduction

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  • pred-2026-04-06-159 Israel will publicly and explicitly acknowledge conducting at least one direct kinetic military strike on Iranian sovereign territory before April 20, 2026.

• security-zone palimpsest

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  • pred-2026-04-23-293 By August 31, 2026, the Israeli government or IDF will formally designate and announce a named military operation or permanent administrative security zone in the northern West Bank (Jenin/Tulkarem corridor or broader), distinct from ad-hoc settler-violence responses — with Operation Iron Wall (January 2025) as the established baseline, meaning any successor named operation, formal escalation of Iron Wall into a permanent administrative zone, or new cabinet/IDF designation of a 'special security zone' with published geographic scope counts as resolution.

• seen vs. unseen (bastiat)

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  • pred-2026-03-29-151 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include blanket tariffs of ≥10% on imports from at least one of EU, Japan, South Korea, or Mexico.

• segregation

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  • The Mobility Paradox: How Diaspora Nostalgia and Host-Society Aristocracy Ratchet Segregation Through the Figure of the Immigrant

• seigniorage

  0 essays · 3 predictions

  • pred-2026-03-27-001 By April 7, 2026, at least one of the following will occur: (a) a formal GCC joint communiqué condemning or demanding reversal of Iran's Hormuz transit fees, (b) a CENTCOM freedom-of-navigation counter-announcement or declaration regarding the transit fee, or (c) Brent crude closing above $108/barrel on at least one trading day — with Brent crossing $108 as the primary resolution pathway (est. 70% standalone probability) and a CENTCOM declaration as the secondary (est. 55% standalone), and GCC communiqué as the least likely of the three (est. 28% standalone).
  • pred-2026-04-11-213 By April 25, 2026, Iran will NOT satisfy both conditions simultaneously: (1) formal Iranian delegation participation in the Islamabad round AND (2) a substantive joint framework or communiqué explicitly addressing Hormuz access conditions with verifiable parameters. The joint probability of both conditions being met is approximately 8%.
  • pred-2026-04-19-247 Brent crude oil will NOT close below $98/bbl on any trading day between April 21 and May 2, 2026, even if a formal US-Iran ceasefire or diplomatic breakthrough is announced during this window.

• seigniorage architecture

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  • pred-2026-04-11-211 Fidesz-KDNP retains parliamentary majority and government formation capacity in Hungary's April 2026 national vote; Péter Magyar's Tisza opposition achieves a polling-competitive performance but fails to translate vote proximity into a decisive seat majority — final governing-coalition seat share remains above 50%.
  • pred-2026-04-17-235 Brent crude oil will exceed $110/bbl on at least one trading day between 2026-04-17 and 2026-04-27, given the active US naval blockade of Iranian ports and a $103/bbl baseline.
  • pred-2026-04-18-245 By May 31, 2026, no major GCC sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA/Mubadala/ADQ, Kuwait Investment Authority, or Qatar Investment Authority) will formally announce a strategic reduction in US dollar-denominated holdings or a new non-dollar allocation explicitly framed as a geopolitically-motivated portfolio rebalancing.
  • pred-2026-04-23-295 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no cut or hike in the post-meeting statement.
  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.
  • pred-2026-04-26-322 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following the April 29–30, 2026 FOMC meeting AND will not issue explicit forward guidance committing to a rate cut at the June 2026 meeting; the statement will use 'data dependent' and 'elevated uncertainty' language while deferring any June characterization.
  • pred-2026-04-26-324 Within six weeks of the confirmed Orbán coalition election defeat (by 2026-06-07), the Hungarian forint will depreciate more than 8% against the euro, measured from the EUR/HUF rate on the day of confirmed defeat.
  • pred-2026-04-28-333 The US and Iran will NOT announce a formal written framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program before June 23, 2026; the diplomatic channel will remain in 'talks continuing' ambiguity mode throughout the window.
  • pred-2026-05-01-335 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing forward guidance consistent with continued data-dependency and no imminent directional move.
  • pred-2026-05-02-337 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, maintaining the current target range with no cut and no hike, citing elevated supply-side inflation and 'heightened uncertainty' as grounds for continued data-dependence.

• seigniorage architecture (semiconductor bottleneck as geopolitical constraint)

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  • pred-2026-04-11-209 The KMT opposition leader's April 2026 meeting with Xi Jinping will NOT produce a publicly announced formal cross-strait dialogue proposal, joint communiqué, or institutionalized communication channel by June 5, 2026.

• seigniorage denomination

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  • pred-2026-04-19-251 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing a statement that acknowledges elevated tariff-driven inflation while citing heightened uncertainty as grounds for inaction.

• seigniorage diplomacy

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  • pred-2026-04-27-329 The United States and Iran will NOT issue any formal joint statement, agreed framework document, or publicly announced roadmap from their ongoing nuclear/sanctions diplomacy before May 11, 2026.

• seigniorage equilibrium and denomination concession

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  • pred-2026-05-12-394 Treasurer Chalmers' 2026 Federal Budget will declare a nominal fiscal surplus AND include direct household cost-of-living transfers (energy rebates, rent assistance top-ups, targeted payment extensions) exceeding AUD 3 billion in aggregate across all line items.

• seigniorage extraction apparatus

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  • pred-2026-04-25-313 US and Iranian envoys will NOT jointly release a written framework document — communiqué, statement of principles, or agreed enrichment parameters — by 2026-05-09, the 14-day window following expected talk commencement around 2026-05-02. Talks will produce at most a procedural signal (agreement to continue, 'constructive atmosphere' language) without a jointly signed or jointly attributed text encoding substantive commitments.

• seigniorage extraction architecture

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  • pred-2026-05-08-372 The United States will not conduct direct kinetic strikes on Iranian territory or Iranian military installations inside Iran by June 30, 2026; any kinetic response will remain outside Iranian borders — targeting Iranian naval vessels or oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, or Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria, or Yemen.
  • pred-2026-05-11-388 The US CPI release on approximately May 12-14, 2026 (measuring April 2026 price levels) will show headline year-over-year inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating that tariff pass-through has cleared the institutional absorption buffers within 8-10 weeks of the April 2026 tariff escalation.

• seigniorage gap

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  • pred-2026-03-29-155 No publicly announced interim agreement, confidence-building measure, or joint statement will emerge from the Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic track by April 30, 2026. Back-channel activity will continue, but the threshold of public announcement will not be crossed.

• seigniorage of credibility

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  • pred-2026-04-28-332 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds target rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, with no dissents favoring a rate cut.

• seigniorage of fiscal credibility

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  • pred-2026-03-20-051 The UK Spring Statement on 26 March 2026 will announce a real-terms freeze or below-CPI uprating of Universal Credit and/or Housing Benefit, with savings explicitly or transparently linked (in the same fiscal event) to increased defence and/or infrastructure expenditure.

• seigniorage of parliamentary democracy

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  • pred-2026-04-19-255 The UK 'Starmer cover-up' controversy will remain contained as a media/parliamentary questions event with no vote of no confidence, no formal police referral gaining institutional traction, and no statutory inquiry announcement by May 3, 2026.

• seigniorage on diplomatic credibility

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  • pred-2026-05-12-395 The Trump-Xi summit will produce a publicly announced trade framework containing at least one of: (a) named tariff reduction percentages, (b) identified sector carve-outs, or (c) explicit numerical purchase or trade-flow targets — before May 26, 2026. Any such framework will be at most semi-binding, without operative enforcement architecture.

• seigniorage rent capture

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  • pred-2026-04-22-287 No written framework, parameters document, or joint statement of principles on US-Iran nuclear de-escalation will be jointly announced by June 15, 2026; talks will remain in procedural or exploratory contact phase at best

• seigniorage through denomination

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  • pred-2026-03-19-041 The Japanese government will publicly reject, formally challenge, or announce a counter-proposal to the reported ~$6bn SoftBank fee embedded in US bilateral trade deal terms by April 16, 2026 — most likely reframing the demand as an investment pledge or FDI commitment rather than issuing a clean structural rejection.

• seigniorage trilemma

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  • pred-2026-03-18-025 The March 2026 FOMC Summary of Economic Projections will show the median 2026 rate-cut projection at 2 or fewer cuts (a downward revision from December's 3-cut median); Powell will use energy-supply-uncertainty language that gestures at Hormuz without explicit naming. The OR compound resolves TRUE primarily through the dot-plot pathway, with explicit Hormuz citation being the uncertain secondary condition.
  • pred-2026-03-18-035 OPEC+ will convene an unscheduled emergency ministerial meeting OR issue a formal communiqué announcing a production policy adjustment (increase, cut, or readiness pledge) in direct response to the Gulf energy disruption by April 30, 2026.
  • pred-2026-03-21-065 By 2026-05-01, Iran will NOT formally declare a nuclear-threshold posture (IAEA inspector suspension, 90%+ weapons-grade enrichment announcement, or NPT withdrawal) in response to the Natanz strike. Iran will instead pursue sub-threshold escalation through proxy operations, unannounced enrichment acceleration, and partial IAEA access restrictions while preserving strategic ambiguity as institutional leverage.
  • pred-2026-03-23-087 The UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will announce welfare and/or disability benefit cuts or eligibility restrictions formally projected to save £5bn or more annually, with PIP eligibility tightening and/or UC work-capability conditionality intensification as the primary mechanism.

• seigniorage trilemma (convertibility-transparency-extraction)

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  • pred-2026-05-03-341 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting AND issue a statement with hawkish or hold-biased forward guidance that explicitly declines to signal rate cuts in H1 2026, citing elevated inflation uncertainty from tariff pass-through and energy price pressure.

• seigniorage trilemma (institutional credibility variant)

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  • pred-2026-03-17-015 The US Supreme Court will NOT issue a stay or preliminary injunction halting the administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status within 14 days of the March 17, 2026 expedited argument session (resolution by 2026-03-31).

• seigniorage trilemma / opacity as leverage

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  • pred-2026-03-16-007 Brent crude oil will close above $95/barrel on at least 7 of the 10 trading days spanning March 17–28, 2026, given ongoing US-Israeli strikes on Iran and continued selective Hormuz passage

• seigniorage-architecture

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  • pred-2026-04-11-207 The UK government will NOT publicly announce or formally confirm a specific named military deployment or coalition mission mandate targeting Strait of Hormuz shipping security by April 25, 2026 — diplomatic language about 'discussions,' 'contingency planning,' or 'enhanced presence' does not satisfy the criterion.

• seigniorage-extraction

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  • pred-2026-05-03-344 The UK government will NOT formally declare an energy emergency or extend mandatory energy rationing beyond the existing airline cancellation order by 2026-05-17; energy management will proceed through escalating sector-specific administrative orders while preserving market governance architecture.

• seigniorage-extraction architecture

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  • pred-2026-05-04-347 The United States will NOT formally announce or initiate a named naval convoy or escort operation through the Strait of Hormuz by May 17, 2026; Trump's pledge will remain in the informal-rhetorical register, operationalized at most as enhanced naval presence or informal accompaniment without institutional formalization
  • pred-2026-05-06-359 Iranian government officials will NOT issue any formal statement or diplomatic action officially indicating openness to negotiation over Hormuz transit access before May 20, 2026 (within 14 days of the Project Freedom pause announcement)
  • pred-2026-05-08-373 The April 2026 US CPI report (released approximately May 13, 2026) will show month-over-month headline inflation at or above 0.4%, driven by energy price transmission from the Hormuz disruption and sustained gas prices.
  • pred-2026-05-08-375 Keir Starmer will remain Labour Party leader on June 30, 2026, with no formal leadership confidence vote having been triggered at any point between May 8 and June 30, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-13-401 The Chalmers capital gains and negative gearing reform package will not pass the Australian Senate in its original form by May 27, 2026 — defined as: legislation either failing to reach a final Senate vote, being defeated outright, or passing only with material amendments (grandfathering of existing investment properties broadly extended, CGT discount reduction reduced by more than 10 percentage points from Chalmers' proposal, or implementation timeline delayed beyond 36 months from the bill's original schedule).
  • pred-2026-05-20-404 The Coalition will successfully force material amendments or procedural delay, preventing the 2026 Budget capital gains tax and negative gearing reform from passing in substantially its introduced form in the Australian Senate by 2026-06-03.

• seigniorage-extraction architecture (commitment as denomination)

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  • pred-2026-05-05-354 By June 30, 2026, Germany will formally announce a multi-year defense spending pathway that explicitly meets or exceeds the NATO 2% GDP floor AND cites the Bundestag-approved Schuldenbremse exemption (or a supplementary fiscal act) as its legal-fiscal basis — rather than leaving the commitment as a vague political pledge or a government-only white paper without legislative backing.

• seigniorage-extraction-architecture

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  • pred-2026-05-10-383 Within 14 days of the court ruling striking down 10% global tariffs (by 2026-05-24), the Trump administration will file an emergency stay application in federal court OR issue a new executive order reimposing substantially equivalent global tariff measures (≥8% on a broad category of imports).
  • pred-2026-05-11-390 No direct US-Iran naval exchange, vessel seizure by either party, or US military strike on Iranian assets will occur within the 6-week window ending 2026-06-22; the sub-threshold harassment equilibrium holds below the direct-exchange threshold.

• seigniorage-extraction: ideological denomination of commitment — security framing as currency that launders capital-export content while preserving domestic consent across class fractions

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  • pred-2026-05-04-351 The UK government will issue a communiqué, Treasury statement of intent, or signed agreement formally associating itself with co-financing the EU's €90bn Ukraine loan package by 2026-06-01. The commitment will most likely take the form of a communiqué or bilateral statement of intent rather than a fully integrated co-financing agreement — all four frameworks agree on outcome but converge on the softer instrument as the modal form.

• seigniorage-gap

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  • pred-2026-03-27-125 By May 15, 2026, the EU Council will advance formal ratification proceedings without incorporating the European Parliament's stated conditions into the treaty text; those conditions will be acknowledged only through non-binding side instruments (political declarations, Commission implementation commitments, or joint interpretive statements).
  • pred-2026-03-28-137 Iran will NOT publicly announce an explicit fee structure, passage permit regime, or formal transit agreement for Strait of Hormuz commercial shipping by May 15, 2026; informal selective extraction, ad hoc escort demands, and insurance-market pressure will continue as the dominant extraction mode with no legible institutionalization.

• seigniorage-trilemma

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  • pred-2026-03-20-053 The European Commission will NOT formally invoke the Gas Security of Supply Regulation (2017/1938 or successor) or authorize coordinated strategic reserve drawdowns in response to Qatar LNG supply disruption by May 15, 2026. Instead, the Commission will activate softer coordination instruments: EU Energy Platform convening, emergency supply monitoring, joint procurement facilitation, and Commission communications — without crossing the formal solidarity-trigger or drawdown-authorization threshold.
  • pred-2026-03-22-071 The European Union will formally announce a retaliatory tariff package against US goods — with specific named product lists and stated rates — on or before 2026-05-03, though implementation will likely be suspended or staged pending negotiations.
  • pred-2026-03-23-081 By April 6, 2026, at least one publicly confirmed instance of direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic communication will occur — through the Omani channel, a UN interlocutor, or an official statement from any party acknowledging that talks are underway — as opposed to continued public escalation or formal rejection of negotiations on all fronts.

• selection erosion

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  • pred-2026-05-08-370 Labour will fail to retain the largest-party position in the Welsh Senedd following the May 2026 elections, ending its uninterrupted plurality since 1999; Plaid Cymru will emerge as the party with the most seats.

• selective passage as institutional rent extraction

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  • pred-2026-03-16-007 Brent crude oil will close above $95/barrel on at least 7 of the 10 trading days spanning March 17–28, 2026, given ongoing US-Israeli strikes on Iran and continued selective Hormuz passage

• selective-passage bilateral institution

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  • pred-2026-03-16-011 Tanker transit volume through the Strait of Hormuz will remain at least 40% below pre-conflict baseline through June 30, 2026, with durable rerouting of Gulf crude exports toward alternative corridors (Saudi East-West Pipeline, UAE Fujairah) becoming structurally embedded regardless of formal closure status.

• self-defeating expectations

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  • pred-2026-03-21-063 The February 2026 US core PCE price index will print at or above 2.5% year-over-year when released on or around March 28, 2026, sustaining the Fed's pause posture and contradicting near-term market rate-cut pricing.

• senate procedural veto architecture

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  • pred-2026-05-20-404 The Coalition will successfully force material amendments or procedural delay, preventing the 2026 Budget capital gains tax and negative gearing reform from passing in substantially its introduced form in the Australian Senate by 2026-06-03.

• sep dot plot mechanics

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  • pred-2026-03-19-037 The FOMC's March 2026 SEP (released March 19) will show the median federal funds rate projection for end-2026 at 3.75–4.00% or higher (implying ≤2 cuts from 4.25–4.50%), AND the median 2026 PCE inflation projection will be revised upward from the December 2025 baseline of 2.5%.

• sequencing-dispute

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  • pred-2026-05-03-343 A fourth formal round of Iran-US nuclear negotiations will NOT be publicly announced or formally scheduled by 2026-05-17, despite the US having formally responded to Iran's latest peace proposal.

• seriousness filter

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  • pred-2026-03-26-115 The February 2026 PCE price index (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.8% year-over-year.

• seriousness-asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-03-28-137 Iran will NOT publicly announce an explicit fee structure, passage permit regime, or formal transit agreement for Strait of Hormuz commercial shipping by May 15, 2026; informal selective extraction, ad hoc escort demands, and insurance-market pressure will continue as the dominant extraction mode with no legible institutionalization.

• seriousness-filter

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  • pred-2026-03-27-121 The UK Spring Statement (delivered by 2026-03-31) will announce net reductions in working-age welfare benefit expenditure — framed as means-testing reforms, conditionality tightening, or efficiency measures — totalling at least £1 billion annually on OBR scoring.

• services inflation stickiness

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  • pred-2026-03-25-099 The US February 2026 core PCE price index (year-over-year) will print at or above 2.6% when released on March 28, 2026

• services sector insulation

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  • pred-2026-04-26-323 The BLS April 2026 non-farm payrolls report (releasing approximately May 2, 2026) will show total payroll job creation below 100,000, reflecting a tariff-driven investment freeze and hiring slowdown.

• services stickiness

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  • pred-2026-03-21-063 The February 2026 US core PCE price index will print at or above 2.5% year-over-year when released on or around March 28, 2026, sustaining the Fed's pause posture and contradicting near-term market rate-cut pricing.
  • pred-2026-03-23-079 The Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE price index at or above 2.8% year-over-year when data releases on or around March 28, 2026.
  • pred-2026-03-26-115 The February 2026 PCE price index (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.8% year-over-year.
  • pred-2026-03-27-129 The BEA's February 2026 PCE release (~2026-03-28) will show core PCE year-over-year at or above 2.5%, AND at least one Federal Reserve official will issue a public statement within 48 hours of the release maintaining a data-dependent pause on rate cuts.

• services-wage-stickiness

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  • pred-2026-03-20-049 February 2026 core PCE inflation (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.7% year-over-year, exceeding the January reading and the Fed's December SEP projection of 2.6%.

• settler-colonial production mode

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  • pred-2026-04-23-293 By August 31, 2026, the Israeli government or IDF will formally designate and announce a named military operation or permanent administrative security zone in the northern West Bank (Jenin/Tulkarem corridor or broader), distinct from ad-hoc settler-violence responses — with Operation Iron Wall (January 2025) as the established baseline, meaning any successor named operation, formal escalation of Iron Wall into a permanent administrative zone, or new cabinet/IDF designation of a 'special security zone' with published geographic scope counts as resolution.

• shadow docket

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  • pred-2026-03-17-015 The US Supreme Court will NOT issue a stay or preliminary injunction halting the administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status within 14 days of the March 17, 2026 expedited argument session (resolution by 2026-03-31).

• shadow docket norm evolution

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  • pred-2026-05-09-380 The Trump administration will secure a judicial emergency stay (from the circuit court, SCOTUS, or both) reinstating the 10% global tariff regime by May 23, 2026 — within 14 days of the Court of International Trade ruling striking it down.

• shell-state option value

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  • pred-2026-04-08-185 Lebanon will experience at least one of: (a) formal government collapse with failure to form a replacement within 30 days, (b) resumption of large-scale armed conflict involving at least one non-state actor and Lebanese state forces with >50 combat deaths in a single week, or (c) internationally recognized de facto territorial partition acknowledged by 3+ UN Security Council members — by October 8, 2026.

• shelter cpi methodology

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  • pred-2026-04-09-187 March 2026 US CPI (all items, year-over-year) prints at or above 3.0% when released approximately April 10–11, 2026.

• shelter inflation

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  • pred-2026-03-25-099 The US February 2026 core PCE price index (year-over-year) will print at or above 2.6% when released on March 28, 2026

• shelter lag

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  • pred-2026-03-26-115 The February 2026 PCE price index (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.8% year-over-year.

• shelter-as-rentier-extraction

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  • pred-2026-03-26-111 The US Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE inflation (ex food and energy) at or above 2.7% year-over-year when released on March 28, 2026, materially complicating the FOMC's projected 2026 rate-cut path by causing a deferral of the anticipated June 2026 cut.

• shelter-disinflation lag

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  • pred-2026-03-21-063 The February 2026 US core PCE price index will print at or above 2.5% year-over-year when released on or around March 28, 2026, sustaining the Fed's pause posture and contradicting near-term market rate-cut pricing.

• shelter-measurement-lag

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  • pred-2026-03-20-049 February 2026 core PCE inflation (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.7% year-over-year, exceeding the January reading and the Fed's December SEP projection of 2.6%.

• side-instrument-substitution

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  • pred-2026-03-27-125 By May 15, 2026, the EU Council will advance formal ratification proceedings without incorporating the European Parliament's stated conditions into the treaty text; those conditions will be acknowledged only through non-binding side instruments (political declarations, Commission implementation commitments, or joint interpretive statements).

• side-payment equilibrium

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  • pred-2026-03-22-077 By May 15, 2026, the EU will formally approve a Ukraine financial support package of €35bn or more — either through Hungarian consent obtained via bilateral side-payment (cohesion fund releases or rule-of-law concessions) or through a mechanism that structurally reduces Hungary's formal veto surface (ERA instrument backed by frozen Russian asset revenues, enhanced cooperation, or G7 extraordinary-revenue vehicle).

• signal absorption into pre-existing partisan frameworks

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  • pred-2026-05-12-399 No US Congressional committee will hold formal hearings specifically on an Iran AUMF authorization or advance an emergency supplemental appropriations bill specifically for Iran military operations to floor vote by June 23, 2026; any Congressional activity will be limited to non-binding oversight measures (press releases, informal briefings, or non-binding resolutions introduced but not voted).

• signal market vs. policy market

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  • pred-2026-05-13-400 The UK King's Speech, if delivered by 2026-05-27, will include at least one piece of primary legislation explicitly targeting NHS waiting-list reduction or housing supply as a named headline domestic bill — not merely a white paper, green paper, or regulatory commitment.

• signal-as-substitute mechanism

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  • pred-2026-05-10-384 No direct Putin-Zelensky bilateral meeting will take place, nor will confirmed dates for such a meeting be publicly announced by both parties, by 2026-06-21

• silence

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  • The Indicator-Occupation: Surveillance Monopoly, Descriptive Saturation, and the Silence of the Completely Seen

• simulated-resonance

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  • pred-2026-03-20-053 The European Commission will NOT formally invoke the Gas Security of Supply Regulation (2017/1938 or successor) or authorize coordinated strategic reserve drawdowns in response to Qatar LNG supply disruption by May 15, 2026. Instead, the Commission will activate softer coordination instruments: EU Energy Platform convening, emergency supply monitoring, joint procurement facilitation, and Commission communications — without crossing the formal solidarity-trigger or drawdown-authorization threshold.

• simultaneous-extraction equilibrium

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  • pred-2026-04-25-315 The Lebanon ceasefire extended ~2026-04-21 will NOT collapse before its scheduled expiry (~2026-05-12) through a major Israeli ground operation launch or formal escalation declaration; instead it will reach expiry through incremental erosion, quiet non-renewal, or a brief additional extension.

• sit-in

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  • The Sacrifice-Flip: Spin, Sit-In, and the Dual Register of Cost-Bearing

• social wage

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  • pred-2026-03-23-087 The UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will announce welfare and/or disability benefit cuts or eligibility restrictions formally projected to save £5bn or more annually, with PIP eligibility tightening and/or UC work-capability conditionality intensification as the primary mechanism.

• social wage compression

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  • pred-2026-03-20-051 The UK Spring Statement on 26 March 2026 will announce a real-terms freeze or below-CPI uprating of Universal Credit and/or Housing Benefit, with savings explicitly or transparently linked (in the same fiscal event) to increased defence and/or infrastructure expenditure.

• social wage floor

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  • pred-2026-05-10-387 The House Agriculture Committee will approve a reconciliation markup including SNAP spending reductions and/or new or expanded work requirements before 2026-06-30, with eligibility restrictions (categorical eligibility elimination, ABAWD expansion, or BBCE elimination) carrying the primary fiscal scoring weight alongside work requirement language.

• social-democratic class management formula

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  • pred-2026-05-12-394 Treasurer Chalmers' 2026 Federal Budget will declare a nominal fiscal surplus AND include direct household cost-of-living transfers (energy rebates, rent assistance top-ups, targeted payment extensions) exceeding AUD 3 billion in aggregate across all line items.

• social-democratic-bind

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  • pred-2026-05-03-340 In the UK local elections on 7 May 2026, Labour will suffer a net loss of more than 150 council seats, and the visible internal party response will be framed as a communications or messaging failure rather than a structural reckoning with the government's economic direction.

• sofa architecture

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  • pred-2026-05-03-342 The United States will NOT formally announce a net reduction of at least 10,000 troops stationed in Germany, Italy, or Spain by June 28, 2026 — despite Germany's 'anticipated' withdrawal signal and Spain/Italy being cited as next candidates. Withdrawal signaling will continue verbally and through informal restructuring, but no DoD-level formal announcement triggering NDAA notification thresholds will materialize within this window.

• soft budget constraint

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  • pred-2026-03-27-131 At least one of BYD, NIO, Li Auto, or XPENG will publicly announce production cuts, factory suspensions, or workforce reductions by 2026-05-08 (6 weeks from 2026-03-27), as domestic margin compression from the ongoing price war renders expansion uneconomical.

• soleimani convention

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  • pred-2026-03-26-117 By 2026-04-09, Iran will formally announce at least one of: (a) Strait of Hormuz passage restrictions or mandatory transit fees, or (b) publicly acknowledged retaliatory strikes against Israeli or US military assets, explicitly linked to the killing of Iran's naval chief.

• soleimani-institutional-script

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  • pred-2026-03-19-039 Between March 19 and April 2, 2026, Iranian state forces (IRGC or Iranian military, not proxies) will execute at least one direct ballistic missile or drone strike explicitly claimed by Iran against Israeli military installations or US military assets in the Middle East region, following the killing of intelligence chief Khatib and Ali Larijani.

• solicitor general institutional credibility

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  • pred-2026-05-09-380 The Trump administration will secure a judicial emergency stay (from the circuit court, SCOTUS, or both) reinstating the 10% global tariff regime by May 23, 2026 — within 14 days of the Court of International Trade ruling striking it down.

• somalia-lite perpetual near-miss dynamics

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  • pred-2026-04-08-185 Lebanon will experience at least one of: (a) formal government collapse with failure to form a replacement within 30 days, (b) resumption of large-scale armed conflict involving at least one non-state actor and Lebanese state forces with >50 combat deaths in a single week, or (c) internationally recognized de facto territorial partition acknowledged by 3+ UN Security Council members — by October 8, 2026.

• sovereign wealth fund

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  • pred-2026-04-27-330 At least one G7 economy other than Canada will formally announce a new sovereign wealth fund or a qualifying expansion (>$10bn USD equivalent) of an existing public investment vehicle by 2026-06-22.

• sovereign wealth fund opacity norms

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  • pred-2026-04-13-233 By June 7, 2026, at least one major Gulf sovereign wealth fund (Saudi PIF, UAE ADIA, or Kuwait KIA) will publicly announce a reduction in USD-denominated asset holdings or a new allocation to non-USD reserve assets.

• sovereignty norm institutionalization

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  • pred-2026-04-24-311 No Russian warships will be permanently stationed at, and no Russian troops will be based at, Indian military facilities under the April 2026 Russia-India pact by June 19, 2026; the pact will remain a declaratory framework without operational basing. Transient port calls or joint exercises, if they occur, do not constitute falsification.

• sovereignty premium

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  • pred-2026-03-28-143 Neither a binding UNSC humanitarian access resolution (or emergency framework) specifically for Lebanon nor a formal Lebanese government Chapter VII request will be adopted or lodged by May 15, 2026. The UNSC output will be limited to non-binding language, presidential statements, or renewed UNIFIL mandate discussions.

• sovereignty-cost asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-04-17-239 The UK government will NOT table formal primary legislation nor sign a provisional framework agreement adopting EU single market rules by 2026-05-30; the most likely outcome is a political declaration, joint working group, or scoping statement that falls short of binding regulatory commitments.

• sovereignty-ideology as legitimacy currency

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  • pred-2026-04-25-318 The Malian transitional government will NOT formally declare a national state of emergency AND will NOT publicly request emergency military reinforcement from any external partner (Russia/Africa Corps successor, neighboring state, or the African Union) within 60 days of the late-April 2026 coordinated attacks.

• sovereignty-liquidity-preference

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  • pred-2026-03-27-125 By May 15, 2026, the EU Council will advance formal ratification proceedings without incorporating the European Parliament's stated conditions into the treaty text; those conditions will be acknowledged only through non-binding side instruments (political declarations, Commission implementation commitments, or joint interpretive statements).

• sovereignty-performance norm

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  • pred-2026-04-25-318 The Malian transitional government will NOT formally declare a national state of emergency AND will NOT publicly request emergency military reinforcement from any external partner (Russia/Africa Corps successor, neighboring state, or the African Union) within 60 days of the late-April 2026 coordinated attacks.

• spare capacity overestimation via malinvestment

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  • pred-2026-04-17-235 Brent crude oil will exceed $110/bbl on at least one trading day between 2026-04-17 and 2026-04-27, given the active US naval blockade of Iranian ports and a $103/bbl baseline.

• special relationship as institutional commons

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  • pred-2026-04-25-314 The King Charles visit to President Trump (by 2026-04-28) will NOT result in a formal US public announcement of tariff relief, exemption, or bilateral trade framework for UK goods by 2026-05-05. The most likely output is a joint statement with aspirational trade language and announcement of accelerated negotiations or a bilateral working group.

• specie

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  • The Clean Ledger: Bilateral Grammar, the Footnote's Subordination, and the Specie That Restoration Cannot Redeem

• speculative price overshoot

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  • pred-2026-03-27-001 By April 7, 2026, at least one of the following will occur: (a) a formal GCC joint communiqué condemning or demanding reversal of Iran's Hormuz transit fees, (b) a CENTCOM freedom-of-navigation counter-announcement or declaration regarding the transit fee, or (c) Brent crude closing above $108/barrel on at least one trading day — with Brent crossing $108 as the primary resolution pathway (est. 70% standalone probability) and a CENTCOM declaration as the secondary (est. 55% standalone), and GCC communiqué as the least likely of the three (est. 28% standalone).

• speech calendar norm

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  • pred-2026-03-27-129 The BEA's February 2026 PCE release (~2026-03-28) will show core PCE year-over-year at or above 2.5%, AND at least one Federal Reserve official will issue a public statement within 48 hours of the release maintaining a data-dependent pause on rate cuts.

• spin

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  • The Sacrifice-Flip: Spin, Sit-In, and the Dual Register of Cost-Bearing

• split-articulation

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  • pred-2026-05-08-370 Labour will fail to retain the largest-party position in the Welsh Senedd following the May 2026 elections, ending its uninterrupted plurality since 1999; Plaid Cymru will emerge as the party with the most seats.

• spontaneous order

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  • pred-2026-04-19-257 By June 14, 2026 (within 8 weeks of the Australia-Japan $7bn warships deal signed April 2026), at least one formal multilateral security announcement — an AUKUS addendum, QUAD joint statement, or trilateral Australia-Japan-US operational agreement — will be publicly issued that explicitly cites China, North Korea, or Indo-Pacific deterrence as the security rationale.

• spontaneous order (diplomacy)

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  • pred-2026-03-25-101 Pakistan-mediated US-Iran contacts will NOT produce a publicly announced bilateral meeting, formal ceasefire talks, or nuclear negotiation framework by April 30, 2026

• spontaneous order of distributed command

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  • pred-2026-05-07-365 By May 21, 2026, Hezbollah will neither formally declare the 2024 Lebanon ceasefire void nor launch a single retaliatory barrage exceeding 50 projectiles toward northern Israel in response to the reported Beirut strike. Sub-threshold response (drone incursions, cross-border fire under 50 projectiles, diplomatic escalation through Iranian channels) is the expected equilibrium.

• spontaneous order response sequencing

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  • pred-2026-04-10-193 By April 20, 2026, Iranian authorities (IRGC, Foreign Ministry, or Supreme Leader's office) will issue at least one of the following in direct response to Trump's Hormuz passage warning: a formal counter-statement or diplomatic note, a naval repositioning or exercise announcement, or a NOTAM issuance — with the Foreign Ministry verbal counter-statement being near-certain and an IRGC operational signal being likely.

• spot-residual

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  • pred-2026-03-19-043 European TTF natural gas spot price will close above €45/MWh on at least 3 of the 5 trading days from March 20–26, 2026, as markets price in the confirmed 17% reduction in Qatar LNG capacity following Iranian strikes.

• stability rule

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  • pred-2026-03-25-097 The OBR Spring Statement (March 26, 2026) will certify UK fiscal headroom below £5bn against the stability rule, most likely in the £1–3bn range; the Chancellor will maintain nominal compliance through within-rule accounting flexibility (investment/current reclassification, forecast-year adjustment, or spending timing shifts) rather than announcing a formal named revision to the stability rule itself.

• stability trap

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  • pred-2026-05-08-370 Labour will fail to retain the largest-party position in the Welsh Senedd following the May 2026 elections, ending its uninterrupted plurality since 1999; Plaid Cymru will emerge as the party with the most seats.

• stacked veto gates

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  • pred-2026-04-07-171 The US and Iran will NOT produce any written diplomatic framework, joint communiqué, or publicly announced schedule for direct negotiations by April 21, 2026 — at most a procedural readout noting talks occurred.

• stagflation

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  • pred-2026-03-23-079 The Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE price index at or above 2.8% year-over-year when data releases on or around March 28, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-01-335 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing forward guidance consistent with continued data-dependency and no imminent directional move.
  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.

• stagflation bind

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  • pred-2026-03-18-033 The OBR forecast published at the UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will show UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Budget forecast

• stagflation structure

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  • pred-2026-05-07-368 The US April 2026 CPI report (released approximately May 13-14) will show year-over-year headline inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating meaningful tariff-driven pass-through to consumer goods prices.

• stagflation-by-mismatch

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  • pred-2026-05-04-346 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, maintaining the current target range without adjustment of any magnitude.

• stagflationary bind

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  • pred-2026-04-24-303 The FOMC will vote to hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, with no dissents favoring an immediate cut or hike.

• stagflationary configuration

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  • pred-2026-04-06-157 The Bureau of Labor Statistics' March 2026 CPI report (expected release ~April 10, 2026) will show headline inflation at or above 3.5% year-over-year.

• stagflationary coordination failure

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  • pred-2026-04-26-322 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following the April 29–30, 2026 FOMC meeting AND will not issue explicit forward guidance committing to a rate cut at the June 2026 meeting; the statement will use 'data dependent' and 'elevated uncertainty' language while deferring any June characterization.

• stagflationary trap

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  • pred-2026-03-17-023 The United States will NOT execute or publicly authorize direct military strikes on Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026. Proxy-level operations, Iranian-controlled external asset targeting (IRGC positions in Syria/Iraq, Houthi infrastructure), and covert harassment will remain the dominant pressure mode. No White House or DoD public authorization of strikes framed as targeting Iran itself.
  • pred-2026-03-19-037 The FOMC's March 2026 SEP (released March 19) will show the median federal funds rate projection for end-2026 at 3.75–4.00% or higher (implying ≤2 cuts from 4.25–4.50%), AND the median 2026 PCE inflation projection will be revised upward from the December 2025 baseline of 2.5%.

• state capture by domestic-industrial capital fraction

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  • pred-2026-03-26-109 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include a publicly stated blanket tariff rate of 10% or higher on EU goods in non-automotive, non-steel sectors, confirmed in official White House or Federal Register communication on or before April 4, 2026.

• state of exception

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  • pred-2026-05-07-369 By June 18, 2026, Israel will formally announce and initiate a large-scale ground military operation explicitly described by the Israeli military as decisive or final-phase, targeting remaining Hamas governance structures in Rafah or northern Gaza, operationally distinct from current targeted raids.

• state-collapse sequencing

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  • pred-2026-04-26-321 Armed groups will NOT execute a sustained incursion into Bamako's urban core (inside the Boulevard ring road) within 8 weeks of the April 25, 2026 coordinated attacks near Bamako airport — perimeter and peri-urban pressure will continue and likely escalate, but the Boulevard threshold will not be crossed with forces operating inside the ring continuously for 48 hours or more.

• stated-operative divergence

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  • pred-2026-03-26-115 The February 2026 PCE price index (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.8% year-over-year.

• status quo ante preservation norm

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  • pred-2026-05-09-380 The Trump administration will secure a judicial emergency stay (from the circuit court, SCOTUS, or both) reinstating the 10% global tariff regime by May 23, 2026 — within 14 days of the Court of International Trade ruling striking it down.

• status-anxiety

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  • The Theocratic Conversion Rate: Wordplay, Euphoric Discharge, and the Status-Anxiety Currency Problem

• sterling-credibility-constraint

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  • pred-2026-03-17-019 The Bank of England MPC will hold the Bank Rate at 4.5% at its March 19-20 meeting, with a vote split of at least 7-2 (hold-cut), meaning 2 or more members dissent in favor of a 25bp cut.

• storage governance rigidity

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  • pred-2026-03-24-095 TTF natural gas front-month spot price will close above €75/MWh on at least 6 of the 15 trading sessions from March 25 to April 14, 2026, reflecting sustained price elevation from the combined QatarEnergy LNG force majeure and Hormuz disruption shock.

• stranger

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  • The Circulatory Boundary: Stranger-Domestication, Urbanization, and the Retaliatory Management of Flow

• strategic ambiguity

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  • pred-2026-03-21-065 By 2026-05-01, Iran will NOT formally declare a nuclear-threshold posture (IAEA inspector suspension, 90%+ weapons-grade enrichment announcement, or NPT withdrawal) in response to the Natanz strike. Iran will instead pursue sub-threshold escalation through proxy operations, unannounced enrichment acceleration, and partial IAEA access restrictions while preserving strategic ambiguity as institutional leverage.

• strategic ambiguity as governance norm

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  • pred-2026-04-06-159 Israel will publicly and explicitly acknowledge conducting at least one direct kinetic military strike on Iranian sovereign territory before April 20, 2026.

• strategic ambiguity norm

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  • pred-2026-04-11-205 Iran will not issue a formal public statement explicitly confirming participation in a second round of US-Iran diplomatic talks by April 25, 2026, instead maintaining strategic ambiguity through hedged ministerial language while backchannel engagement continues.

• strategic autonomy doctrine

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  • pred-2026-04-24-311 No Russian warships will be permanently stationed at, and no Russian troops will be based at, Indian military facilities under the April 2026 Russia-India pact by June 19, 2026; the pact will remain a declaratory framework without operational basing. Transient port calls or joint exercises, if they occur, do not constitute falsification.

• strategic voting coordination

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  • pred-2026-04-24-301 The Liberal Party of Canada under Mark Carney will win enough seats on April 28, 2026 to form government (minority or majority), and Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party will fail to form government.

• strategic-ambiguity

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  • pred-2026-03-28-137 Iran will NOT publicly announce an explicit fee structure, passage permit regime, or formal transit agreement for Strait of Hormuz commercial shipping by May 15, 2026; informal selective extraction, ad hoc escort demands, and insurance-market pressure will continue as the dominant extraction mode with no legible institutionalization.

• strategic-ambiguity-as-dominant-strategy

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  • pred-2026-05-04-348 By June 15, 2026 (six weeks after Mélenchon's announcement), at least one of PS, PCF, or EELV will have issued a formal public statement — via party leadership, national bureau, or official spokesperson — either endorsing Mélenchon's candidacy or explicitly opposing it / demanding a negotiated primary process.

• strategic-liquidity-preference

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  • pred-2026-03-19-039 Between March 19 and April 2, 2026, Iranian state forces (IRGC or Iranian military, not proxies) will execute at least one direct ballistic missile or drone strike explicitly claimed by Iran against Israeli military installations or US military assets in the Middle East region, following the killing of intelligence chief Khatib and Ali Larijani.

• stratification

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  • The Mobility Calibration Gap: Nationalism, Correlative Self-Legitimation, and the Circulatory Reproduction of Stratification

• stratocracy

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  • pred-2026-03-19-001 Between 2026 and 2028, the securitization of civilian governance domains — trade policy, technology regulation, industrial policy, immigration, infrastructure investment — will produce a stratocratic palimpsest across democratic polities in which civilian-deliberative frameworks remain formally intact but are operationally overwritten by national-security command logic. The mechanism is palimpsest illegibility: as security-logic governance expands into domains previously administered through cost-benefit deliberation, legislative negotiation, and regulatory procedure, the institutional memory of how those civilian frameworks operated atrophies. Classification regimes, executive emergency authorities, and security-exemption precedents accumulate as the new operative text, while the deliberative layer beneath them becomes archaeologically inaccessible — not repealed but unreadable, not overthrown but forgotten. This is stratocratic drift (088) operating through the palimpsest mechanism (061): the command layer does not need to defeat the deliberative layer, only to overwrite it frequently enough that practitioners lose the capacity to read and operate the older text. The structural signature is the proliferation of 'national security' as the governing rationale for decisions that were, within living institutional memory, governed by civilian-economic, rights-based, or welfare-maximizing frameworks — with the critical feature being that restoration of the prior framework becomes progressively harder not because of political opposition but because the institutional competence to operate it has been overwritten.

• stratocratic drift

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  • pred-2026-03-17-023 The United States will NOT execute or publicly authorize direct military strikes on Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026. Proxy-level operations, Iranian-controlled external asset targeting (IRGC positions in Syria/Iraq, Houthi infrastructure), and covert harassment will remain the dominant pressure mode. No White House or DoD public authorization of strikes framed as targeting Iran itself.
  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper

• strike

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  • Policy Brief: The Etymology Trap in Institutional Reform
  • The Generational Siege: Structural Reform vs. the Aging Mandate as Conflict Dynamic

• structural lag

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  • pred-2026-04-07-165 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 5, 2026 (released April 10, 2026) will come in BELOW 230,000, remaining consistent with pre-tariff baseline and within the structural lag window before tariff-shock displacement becomes visible in formal claims data.

• structural-dependency

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  • pred-2026-03-19-043 European TTF natural gas spot price will close above €45/MWh on at least 3 of the 5 trading days from March 20–26, 2026, as markets price in the confirmed 17% reduction in Qatar LNG capacity following Iranian strikes.

• structurally

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  • The Generational Siege: Structural Reform vs. the Aging Mandate as Conflict Dynamic

• stv coordination costs

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  • pred-2026-05-08-370 Labour will fail to retain the largest-party position in the Welsh Senedd following the May 2026 elections, ending its uninterrupted plurality since 1999; Plaid Cymru will emerge as the party with the most seats.

• sub-imperial-burden-sharing

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  • pred-2026-04-11-207 The UK government will NOT publicly announce or formally confirm a specific named military deployment or coalition mission mandate targeting Strait of Hormuz shipping security by April 25, 2026 — diplomatic language about 'discussions,' 'contingency planning,' or 'enhanced presence' does not satisfy the criterion.

• sub-state veto player externality

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  • pred-2026-04-09-189 By April 22, 2026, neither the United States nor Iran will publicly announce withdrawal, suspension, or termination of the ceasefire framework — the formal diplomatic shell will remain intact despite ongoing sub-formal violations in Lebanon and continued unresolved terms in the 10-point plan.

• subaltern state mediation

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  • pred-2026-04-07-163 By April 14, 2026, the Pakistan-brokered US-Iran diplomatic channel will produce at least one publicly announced output — framework agreement, joint communiqué, ceasefire proposal, or confirmed follow-on talks — rather than a US military strike order or announced total diplomatic collapse with no scheduled continuation.

• subjective value asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-04-10-193 By April 20, 2026, Iranian authorities (IRGC, Foreign Ministry, or Supreme Leader's office) will issue at least one of the following in direct response to Trump's Hormuz passage warning: a formal counter-statement or diplomatic note, a naval repositioning or exercise announcement, or a NOTAM issuance — with the Foreign Ministry verbal counter-statement being near-certain and an IRGC operational signal being likely.

• subjective value incommensurability

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  • pred-2026-04-13-231 By April 26, 2026, at least 3 G7 members beyond the UK will issue formal, public governmental statements declining to participate in the US Hormuz blockade — most likely Germany, Japan, and France.

• subsidy

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  • Policy Brief: The Etymology Trap in Institutional Reform

• subsidy permutation

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  • pred-2026-03-15-003 At least one major G7 economy will announce new import tariffs or domestic industrial subsidies in Q2-Q3 2026 (April–September 2026) explicitly framed as 'protecting workers,' 'industrial fairness,' or equivalent labor-solidarity language, where independent distributional analysis confirms the primary economic beneficiary is an upstream extractive or capital-intensive monopoly sector rather than the downstream labor force named in the announcement.

• subsistence

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  • The Subsistence Ratchet: Technocratic Chunking, Denomination Collapse, and the Capture of Bricolage

• subsistence ratchet

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  • pred-2026-05-20-404 The Coalition will successfully force material amendments or procedural delay, preventing the 2026 Budget capital gains tax and negative gearing reform from passing in substantially its introduced form in the Australian Senate by 2026-06-03.

• summit-as-spectacle norm

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  • pred-2026-05-05-353 The Lula-Trump Washington meeting (week of May 5, 2026) will produce no formal bilateral trade instrument, explicit tariff-exemption commitment, or jointly signed framework document with operative trade language. The sole substantive output will be a ceremonial joint statement with non-binding aspirational language (e.g., 'exploring enhanced cooperation,' sector-level working groups) and no enforceable tariff provisions.

• sunk cost lock-in

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  • pred-2026-03-28-141 No publicly announced meeting, de-escalation framework, or formal diplomatic signal between the US and Iran will emerge from Pakistan's mediation by April 11, 2026; back-channel activity will continue but remain below the public announcement threshold.

• sunk-coordination-costs

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  • pred-2026-03-25-103 The announced 6-day junior doctors strike in England will proceed for at least 4 of its 6 scheduled days without a government-negotiated suspension agreement.

• sunk-cost posture lock

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  • pred-2026-05-10-386 A subsequent round of US-Iran indirect nuclear or Hormuz-related talks will be publicly confirmed or announced before 2026-05-24, following Iran's published response to the latest US framework proposal.

• sunk-cost switching costs

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  • pred-2026-04-10-201 Commercial tanker passage through the Strait of Hormuz will recover to at least 60% of pre-conflict baseline traffic volumes by April 24, 2026, following ceasefire diplomacy.

• superstructural blame-transfer through labour councils

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  • pred-2026-04-26-320 In the May 7, 2026 Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senedd, and English local elections, Labour's combined vote share in comparable contested areas falls more than 5 percentage points below its 2024 general election baseline, as measured by Electoral Commission and council/Senedd/Holyrood declared results by May 10, 2026.

• superstructural brake

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  • pred-2026-04-25-315 The Lebanon ceasefire extended ~2026-04-21 will NOT collapse before its scheduled expiry (~2026-05-12) through a major Israeli ground operation launch or formal escalation declaration; instead it will reach expiry through incremental erosion, quiet non-renewal, or a brief additional extension.

• superstructural commitment vs. base transformation

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  • pred-2026-04-17-237 Hungary's post-Orbán government will NOT produce a formal public commitment to EU rule-of-law reforms sufficient for the European Commission to announce a disbursement schedule for the frozen €35bn within 14 days of 2026-04-17 (by 2026-05-01). The Hungarian government will likely signal commitment within this window; the Commission disbursement schedule announcement will not follow within it.

• superstructural counter-mobilization

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  • pred-2026-05-12-397 The Australian Labor government's negative gearing and capital gains tax reform measures as announced in Budget 2026 will survive 14 days of parliamentary scrutiny through May 26, 2026, without the government publicly offering major concessions — defined as explicit scope reduction, new grandfathering provisions not present in the original budget announcement, or phase-in timeline extension — to crossbenchers or the opposition in response to parliamentary pressure.

• superstructural deadline performance

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  • pred-2026-04-22-277 No written framework agreement or formal joint communiqué committing both parties to continued structured negotiations will emerge from the current US-Iran talks before April 30, 2026; any public statement will be a unilateral declaration, verbal understanding, or silence — not a jointly-attributed written instrument with process commitments.

• superstructural embedding

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  • pred-2026-04-12-223 The Hungarian opposition coalition led by TISZA will fail to deny Fidesz its parliamentary supermajority (≥133 seats) in the April 2026 elections — Fidesz will retain constitutional amendment capacity.

• superstructural forecast function

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  • pred-2026-03-27-127 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast to below 1.5% in the Spring Statement (due 2026-03-31), down from approximately 2.0% in the Autumn Statement 2025, citing Hormuz-driven energy costs and trade uncertainty.

• superstructural formalization

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  • pred-2026-04-23-293 By August 31, 2026, the Israeli government or IDF will formally designate and announce a named military operation or permanent administrative security zone in the northern West Bank (Jenin/Tulkarem corridor or broader), distinct from ad-hoc settler-violence responses — with Operation Iron Wall (January 2025) as the established baseline, meaning any successor named operation, formal escalation of Iron Wall into a permanent administrative zone, or new cabinet/IDF designation of a 'special security zone' with published geographic scope counts as resolution.

• superstructural fragility

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  • pred-2026-04-08-181 The US-Iran ceasefire will hold through April 22, 2026, without either US or Iranian forces conducting offensive strikes against each other's assets or proxies at brigade scale or above; sub-threshold proxy incidents will occur but will not trigger principal-level escalation.

• superstructural gesture as market signal

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  • pred-2026-04-19-253 The US-Pakistan-Iran diplomatic track will NOT produce a publicly announced tangible output — no joint communiqué, agreed framework, or confirmed next round of direct/indirect talks — by May 3, 2026; the ceiling outcome is an informal 'constructive discussions' readout below the threshold of tangible diplomatic product.

• superstructural hegemony maintenance

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  • pred-2026-03-18-035 OPEC+ will convene an unscheduled emergency ministerial meeting OR issue a formal communiqué announcing a production policy adjustment (increase, cut, or readiness pledge) in direct response to the Gulf energy disruption by April 30, 2026.

• superstructural inertia

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  • pred-2026-04-26-324 Within six weeks of the confirmed Orbán coalition election defeat (by 2026-06-07), the Hungarian forint will depreciate more than 8% against the euro, measured from the EUR/HUF rate on the day of confirmed defeat.
  • pred-2026-05-03-342 The United States will NOT formally announce a net reduction of at least 10,000 troops stationed in Germany, Italy, or Spain by June 28, 2026 — despite Germany's 'anticipated' withdrawal signal and Spain/Italy being cited as next candidates. Withdrawal signaling will continue verbally and through informal restructuring, but no DoD-level formal announcement triggering NDAA notification thresholds will materialize within this window.

• superstructural lag

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  • pred-2026-03-23-089 No formal ceasefire agreement or publicly announced binding de-escalation framework between Iran and the United States will be announced by May 15, 2026, whether through Pakistan, Gulf-state, or direct mediation.
  • pred-2026-04-11-215 By June 6, 2026, at least one NATO member state will formally request renegotiation of US military base access terms or publicly announce an official government review of existing basing agreements, explicitly citing Atlantic realignment dynamics, reduced US credibility, or the Iran crisis as justification.
  • pred-2026-04-12-227 By June 7, 2026, at least one major GCC sovereign wealth fund (ADIA, PIF, QIA, or KIA) will publicly announce a formal reallocation strategy reducing US-denominated asset exposure by 10%+ or establishing a new European/Swiss-domiciled investment vehicle, explicitly citing Iran-war geopolitical risk or Hormuz corridor uncertainty as justification.
  • pred-2026-05-08-375 Keir Starmer will remain Labour Party leader on June 30, 2026, with no formal leadership confidence vote having been triggered at any point between May 8 and June 30, 2026.

• superstructural lag behind material base

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  • pred-2026-04-22-281 At least one of WFP, OCHA, or the IPC Famine Review Committee will formally declare IPC Phase 5 (famine) conditions in at least one zone of Gaza by June 17, 2026.

• superstructural legitimacy

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  • pred-2026-03-26-117 By 2026-04-09, Iran will formally announce at least one of: (a) Strait of Hormuz passage restrictions or mandatory transit fees, or (b) publicly acknowledged retaliatory strikes against Israeli or US military assets, explicitly linked to the killing of Iran's naval chief.

• superstructural legitimation

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  • pred-2026-04-19-257 By June 14, 2026 (within 8 weeks of the Australia-Japan $7bn warships deal signed April 2026), at least one formal multilateral security announcement — an AUKUS addendum, QUAD joint statement, or trilateral Australia-Japan-US operational agreement — will be publicly issued that explicitly cites China, North Korea, or Indo-Pacific deterrence as the security rationale.
  • pred-2026-05-05-354 By June 30, 2026, Germany will formally announce a multi-year defense spending pathway that explicitly meets or exceeds the NATO 2% GDP floor AND cites the Bundestag-approved Schuldenbremse exemption (or a supplementary fiscal act) as its legal-fiscal basis — rather than leaving the commitment as a vague political pledge or a government-only white paper without legislative backing.

• superstructural legitimation of material interest coordination

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  • pred-2026-04-25-314 The King Charles visit to President Trump (by 2026-04-28) will NOT result in a formal US public announcement of tariff relief, exemption, or bilateral trade framework for UK goods by 2026-05-05. The most likely output is a joint statement with aspirational trade language and announcement of accelerated negotiations or a bilateral working group.

• superstructural naturalization

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  • pred-2026-05-05-353 The Lula-Trump Washington meeting (week of May 5, 2026) will produce no formal bilateral trade instrument, explicit tariff-exemption commitment, or jointly signed framework document with operative trade language. The sole substantive output will be a ceremonial joint statement with non-binding aspirational language (e.g., 'exploring enhanced cooperation,' sector-level working groups) and no enforceable tariff provisions.

• superstructural nuclear framing

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  • pred-2026-04-08-179 By June 1, 2026, the US-Iran diplomatic process will remain in purely renewable mode: no formal framework agreement, no sanctions relief roadmap, and no enrichment suspension protocol with binding verification architecture will have been produced. The process will generate at least two additional ceasefire extensions and at least one 'framework for talks' or 'principles' communiqué, each of which will itself be a renewable rather than stock instrument.

• superstructural resistance bounded by base conditions

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  • pred-2026-03-19-041 The Japanese government will publicly reject, formally challenge, or announce a counter-proposal to the reported ~$6bn SoftBank fee embedded in US bilateral trade deal terms by April 16, 2026 — most likely reframing the demand as an investment pledge or FDI commitment rather than issuing a clean structural rejection.

• superstructural-absorption

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  • pred-2026-05-10-385 Keir Starmer will neither face a formal no-confidence motion from within the Parliamentary Labour Party (requiring ≥82 MP signatures) nor publicly announce his resignation before 2026-05-24.

• superstructural-contestation

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  • pred-2026-05-20-405 By 2026-07-15, at least two US regulatory agencies currently experiencing confirmed leadership vacancies (including FDA following the head's resignation confirmed in May 2026) will have publicly missed a statutory deadline OR received a court ruling or published Inspector General report formally attributing documented operational failure to the vacancy cascade — with evidentiary basis in agency records, court dockets, or published IG reports.

• superstructural-enforcement

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  • pred-2026-03-28-137 Iran will NOT publicly announce an explicit fee structure, passage permit regime, or formal transit agreement for Strait of Hormuz commercial shipping by May 15, 2026; informal selective extraction, ad hoc escort demands, and insurance-market pressure will continue as the dominant extraction mode with no legible institutionalization.

• superstructural-filtering

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  • pred-2026-04-19-249 No formal IPC Phase 5 famine declaration will be issued for any part of Gaza before May 3, 2026; current 'imminent famine' and Phase 5 risk language will persist as a stable institutional intermediate register without upgrade to formal declaration.

• superstructural-lag

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  • pred-2026-04-11-207 The UK government will NOT publicly announce or formally confirm a specific named military deployment or coalition mission mandate targeting Strait of Hormuz shipping security by April 25, 2026 — diplomatic language about 'discussions,' 'contingency planning,' or 'enhanced presence' does not satisfy the criterion.

• superstructural-performance

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  • pred-2026-05-09-379 Credible reports of resumed large-scale offensive operations by Russia or Ukraine will emerge before May 15, 2026, causing the ceasefire to collapse within or immediately following its stated 72-hour window.

• superstructure alignment

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  • pred-2026-03-17-015 The US Supreme Court will NOT issue a stay or preliminary injunction halting the administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status within 14 days of the March 17, 2026 expedited argument session (resolution by 2026-03-31).

• superstructure capture

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  • pred-2026-03-28-133 The US Liberation Day tariff package announced April 2, 2026 will NOT be implemented cleanly on schedule — by April 11, 2026, announced bilateral exemptions, product exclusions, implementation delays, or country-specific carve-outs will collectively affect more than 20% of the originally targeted import value.

• superstructure recapture — class fraction conflict at different state nodes

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  • pred-2026-05-09-380 The Trump administration will secure a judicial emergency stay (from the circuit court, SCOTUS, or both) reinstating the 10% global tariff regime by May 23, 2026 — within 14 days of the Court of International Trade ruling striking it down.

• superstructure-absorbs-challenge

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  • pred-2026-05-03-340 In the UK local elections on 7 May 2026, Labour will suffer a net loss of more than 150 council seats, and the visible internal party response will be framed as a communications or messaging failure rather than a structural reckoning with the government's economic direction.

• superstructure-base correspondence

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  • pred-2026-05-11-389 The UK King's Speech (delivered within 14 days of 2026-05-11) will include at least one of: (a) a housing supply or planning reform bill, (b) an AI or digital regulation framework bill, or (c) explicit defense spending legislation — confirming that Starmer's 'bolder action' rhetoric converts into a primary legislative program signal rather than remaining soft-instrument rhetoric

• superstructure-base lag

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  • pred-2026-04-09-189 By April 22, 2026, neither the United States nor Iran will publicly announce withdrawal, suspension, or termination of the ceasefire framework — the formal diplomatic shell will remain intact despite ongoing sub-formal violations in Lebanon and continued unresolved terms in the 10-point plan.

• superstructure-base timing

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  • pred-2026-04-25-313 US and Iranian envoys will NOT jointly release a written framework document — communiqué, statement of principles, or agreed enrichment parameters — by 2026-05-09, the 14-day window following expected talk commencement around 2026-05-02. Talks will produce at most a procedural signal (agreement to continue, 'constructive atmosphere' language) without a jointly signed or jointly attributed text encoding substantive commitments.

• supply chain lag

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  • pred-2026-04-07-169 US headline CPI for March 2026 will print at or above 3.5% year-over-year when released approximately April 10, 2026.

• supply chain path dependence

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  • pred-2026-03-29-145 The US ISM Manufacturing PMI for March 2026 will print below 48.0 upon release circa April 1, 2026, confirming manufacturing contraction consistent with compound tariff escalation and Hormuz-driven energy cost pass-through into manufacturing inputs.

• supply chain path-dependence

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  • pred-2026-05-07-368 The US April 2026 CPI report (released approximately May 13-14) will show year-over-year headline inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating meaningful tariff-driven pass-through to consumer goods prices.

• supply scarcity rent

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  • pred-2026-04-17-235 Brent crude oil will exceed $110/bbl on at least one trading day between 2026-04-17 and 2026-04-27, given the active US naval blockade of Iranian ports and a $103/bbl baseline.

• supply shock transmission

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  • pred-2026-03-24-091 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast downward by at least 0.5 percentage points from its Autumn 2025 Statement projection in the Spring Statement 2026 fiscal event on March 26, 2026.

• supply-chain pass-through

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  • pred-2026-03-25-099 The US February 2026 core PCE price index (year-over-year) will print at or above 2.6% when released on March 28, 2026

• supply-shock attribution

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  • pred-2026-04-19-251 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing a statement that acknowledges elevated tariff-driven inflation while citing heightened uncertainty as grounds for inaction.

• supply-shock transmission

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  • pred-2026-03-19-037 The FOMC's March 2026 SEP (released March 19) will show the median federal funds rate projection for end-2026 at 3.75–4.00% or higher (implying ≤2 cuts from 4.25–4.50%), AND the median 2026 PCE inflation projection will be revised upward from the December 2025 baseline of 2.5%.

• supply-side adjustment lag

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  • pred-2026-04-13-229 Brent crude oil will close above $100/barrel on at least 4 of the 5 trading days from April 14–18, 2026, given the announced US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

• supply-side shock

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  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.

• surplus capture

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  • pred-2026-04-09-187 March 2026 US CPI (all items, year-over-year) prints at or above 3.0% when released approximately April 10–11, 2026.

• surplus extraction

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  • pred-2026-03-26-115 The February 2026 PCE price index (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.8% year-over-year.

• surveillance

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  • The Indicator-Occupation: Surveillance Monopoly, Descriptive Saturation, and the Silence of the Completely Seen

• surveillance-labyrinth

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  • pred-2026-03-27-121 The UK Spring Statement (delivered by 2026-03-31) will announce net reductions in working-age welfare benefit expenditure — framed as means-testing reforms, conditionality tightening, or efficiency measures — totalling at least £1 billion annually on OBR scoring.

• survival discount

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  • pred-2026-04-27-328 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6-7, 2026 FOMC meeting, issuing no change to the target range.
  • pred-2026-04-27-329 The United States and Iran will NOT issue any formal joint statement, agreed framework document, or publicly announced roadmap from their ongoing nuclear/sanctions diplomacy before May 11, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-28-331 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show annualized real GDP growth below 1.0%, driven by a negative net-exports drag from tariff-anticipation import front-loading and suppressed gross private fixed investment from tariff-uncertainty-induced capital deferral.
  • pred-2026-04-28-333 The US and Iran will NOT announce a formal written framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program before June 23, 2026; the diplomatic channel will remain in 'talks continuing' ambiguity mode throughout the window.
  • pred-2026-05-02-337 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, maintaining the current target range with no cut and no hike, citing elevated supply-side inflation and 'heightened uncertainty' as grounds for continued data-dependence.
  • pred-2026-05-04-347 The United States will NOT formally announce or initiate a named naval convoy or escort operation through the Strait of Hormuz by May 17, 2026; Trump's pledge will remain in the informal-rhetorical register, operationalized at most as enhanced naval presence or informal accompaniment without institutional formalization
  • pred-2026-05-08-373 The April 2026 US CPI report (released approximately May 13, 2026) will show month-over-month headline inflation at or above 0.4%, driven by energy price transmission from the Hormuz disruption and sustained gas prices.
  • pred-2026-05-08-375 Keir Starmer will remain Labour Party leader on June 30, 2026, with no formal leadership confidence vote having been triggered at any point between May 8 and June 30, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-20-404 The Coalition will successfully force material amendments or procedural delay, preventing the 2026 Budget capital gains tax and negative gearing reform from passing in substantially its introduced form in the Australian Senate by 2026-06-03.

• survival discount: starmer government's political survival calculus on eu reset as the dominant driver collapsing medium-run fiscal caution into short-run alignment signal

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  • pred-2026-05-04-351 The UK government will issue a communiqué, Treasury statement of intent, or signed agreement formally associating itself with co-financing the EU's €90bn Ukraine loan package by 2026-06-01. The commitment will most likely take the form of a communiqué or bilateral statement of intent rather than a fully integrated co-financing agreement — all four frameworks agree on outcome but converge on the softer instrument as the modal form.

• survival-discount

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  • pred-2026-05-03-344 The UK government will NOT formally declare an energy emergency or extend mandatory energy rationing beyond the existing airline cancellation order by 2026-05-17; energy management will proceed through escalating sector-specific administrative orders while preserving market governance architecture.

• survive-as-persist logic

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  • pred-2026-05-13-400 The UK King's Speech, if delivered by 2026-05-27, will include at least one piece of primary legislation explicitly targeting NHS waiting-list reduction or housing supply as a named headline domestic bill — not merely a white paper, green paper, or regulatory commitment.

• survivorship aggregate

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  • pred-2026-04-11-211 Fidesz-KDNP retains parliamentary majority and government formation capacity in Hungary's April 2026 national vote; Péter Magyar's Tisza opposition achieves a polling-competitive performance but fails to translate vote proximity into a decisive seat majority — final governing-coalition seat share remains above 50%.
  • pred-2026-04-11-215 By June 6, 2026, at least one NATO member state will formally request renegotiation of US military base access terms or publicly announce an official government review of existing basing agreements, explicitly citing Atlantic realignment dynamics, reduced US credibility, or the Iran crisis as justification.
  • pred-2026-04-12-221 The Orthodox Easter ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine will hold at the formal threshold through April 20, 2026 — neither side will formally announce a breakdown NOR execute verified large-scale coordinated offensive operations — while tactical violations continue below the threshold of acknowledged defection.

• survivorship aggregate pre-composition by incumbent institutional design

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  • pred-2026-04-12-217 The Tisza/Magyar Péter coalition will win a sufficient number of parliamentary seats in the April 12, 2026 Hungarian elections to form a majority government without Fidesz — operationalized as securing at least 100 seats in the 199-seat National Assembly and proceeding to coalition government formation without Orbán as Prime Minister.

• switching cost

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  • pred-2026-05-07-367 Putin's May 9, 2026 Victory Day address and surrounding official communications through May 14 will contain neither (a) a substantive unilateral ceasefire proposal with concrete operational terms directed at Ukraine or NATO, nor (b) a formal military escalation announcement such as a new mobilization wave, a new annexation declaration of territory beyond currently claimed oblasts, or an explicit expansion of formal war aims. The address will maintain existing war-justification framing with rhetorical intensification but no structural departure in either direction. If ceasefire-adjacent language appears, it will be encoded as performative diplomacy with conditions calibrated to fail (e.g., NATO withdrawal or no-membership guarantees) rather than a genuine diplomatic initiative.

• switching cost asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-03-26-113 The United States and Iran will NOT publicly announce the opening of formal direct bilateral nuclear negotiations on or before May 15, 2026; back-channel or third-party mediation activity may intensify but will not produce a jointly acknowledged formal bilateral announcement within this window.
  • pred-2026-04-22-287 No written framework, parameters document, or joint statement of principles on US-Iran nuclear de-escalation will be jointly announced by June 15, 2026; talks will remain in procedural or exploratory contact phase at best
  • pred-2026-04-24-309 The Lebanon ceasefire will be formally extended for at least one additional period of 14 or more days by May 5, 2026, with no renewed direct Hezbollah-Israel hostilities declared and no permanent diplomatic framework agreement signed.

• switching costs

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  • pred-2026-03-26-119 Fidesz wins at least 133 of 199 parliamentary seats in the April 2026 Hungarian election, retaining its two-thirds constitutional supermajority.

• switching-cost

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  • pred-2026-03-19-047 At least 2 GCC member states beyond Qatar (most likely Saudi Arabia + Bahrain or UAE) will formally downgrade, suspend, or sever diplomatic relations with Iran by May 14, 2026, following Iran's strikes on Qatari LNG infrastructure.
  • pred-2026-05-03-343 A fourth formal round of Iran-US nuclear negotiations will NOT be publicly announced or formally scheduled by 2026-05-17, despite the US having formally responded to Iran's latest peace proposal.

• symbolic announcement as collective action deferral

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  • pred-2026-05-08-374 The US-China trade talks currently underway will produce at least one publicly announced output — a framework agreement, a tariff reduction commitment, or a formal negotiating roadmap — by May 22, 2026.

• symmetric effective demand failure

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  • pred-2026-04-12-225 The Iran-Hormuz ceasefire will not collapse before April 26, 2026 — neither (a) renewed Iranian military interdiction of commercial shipping nor (b) a formal US or Israeli declaration of resumed offensive operations against Iranian forces will occur within this window.

• syntactic mint

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  • pred-2026-03-18-033 The OBR forecast published at the UK Spring Statement on March 26, 2026 will show UK GDP growth for calendar year 2026 below 1.5%, representing a downgrade from the October 2025 Autumn Budget forecast

• tabloid

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  • Chart-Preservation: Parliamentary Adaptation on a Political Manifold

• tacit demarcation arrangement

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  • pred-2026-04-26-321 Armed groups will NOT execute a sustained incursion into Bamako's urban core (inside the Boulevard ring road) within 8 weeks of the April 25, 2026 coordinated attacks near Bamako airport — perimeter and peri-urban pressure will continue and likely escalate, but the Boulevard threshold will not be crossed with forces operating inside the ring continuously for 48 hours or more.

• tacit knowledge destruction

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  • pred-2026-04-27-327 By 2026-07-26 (within 90 days of Defence Minister Camara's assassination), the Malian transitional government will experience at least one of: (a) a formal military coup replacing the Goïta-led junta, (b) an officially announced dissolution or restructuring of the unified military command, or (c) a publicly acknowledged loss of administrative control over a named provincial capital. The most probable pathway is acknowledged provincial capital loss or announced command restructuring; a formal coup is the least likely criterion due to novel Wagner/AES transaction-cost constraints absent in prior Malian episodes.

• taif path dependence

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  • pred-2026-04-07-173 Lebanon's post-ceasefire government will remain formally intact through June 2, 2026 — no formal coalition withdrawal, no declared parliamentary majority loss, no cabinet dissolution — despite continued Israeli airstrikes and deepening sectarian fissures

• tail-risk-premium

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  • pred-2026-03-19-043 European TTF natural gas spot price will close above €45/MWh on at least 3 of the 5 trading days from March 20–26, 2026, as markets price in the confirmed 17% reduction in Qatar LNG capacity following Iranian strikes.

• tariff base-year effect

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  • pred-2026-04-06-157 The Bureau of Labor Statistics' March 2026 CPI report (expected release ~April 10, 2026) will show headline inflation at or above 3.5% year-over-year.

• tariff cost pass-through

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  • pred-2026-03-27-129 The BEA's February 2026 PCE release (~2026-03-28) will show core PCE year-over-year at or above 2.5%, AND at least one Federal Reserve official will issue a public statement within 48 hours of the release maintaining a data-dependent pause on rate cuts.

• tariff escalation

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  • pred-2026-03-29-145 The US ISM Manufacturing PMI for March 2026 will print below 48.0 upon release circa April 1, 2026, confirming manufacturing contraction consistent with compound tariff escalation and Hormuz-driven energy cost pass-through into manufacturing inputs.

• tariff input-cost lag

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  • pred-2026-04-18-241 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 19, 2026 (released April 24) will come in at or above 225,000, reflecting cumulative disruption from tariff-driven layoffs, federal workforce reductions, and associated secondary demand contraction.

• tariff pass-through

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  • pred-2026-03-21-063 The February 2026 US core PCE price index will print at or above 2.5% year-over-year when released on or around March 28, 2026, sustaining the Fed's pause posture and contradicting near-term market rate-cut pricing.
  • pred-2026-03-22-067 The BEA's February 2026 core PCE price index release (~March 28, 2026) will show core PCE inflation at or above 2.8% year-over-year.
  • pred-2026-03-22-075 The BEA will report US February 2026 PCE price index year-over-year at or above 2.6% when released in the final week of March 2026.
  • pred-2026-03-23-079 The Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE price index at or above 2.8% year-over-year when data releases on or around March 28, 2026.
  • pred-2026-03-26-115 The February 2026 PCE price index (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.8% year-over-year.
  • pred-2026-04-08-177 The March 2026 US headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released during the week of April 7–11, 2026, driven by tariff pass-through in goods categories and embedded energy cost from the pre-ceasefire Iran-Hormuz disruption.
  • pred-2026-04-08-183 US March 2026 headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released approximately April 10, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-09-187 March 2026 US CPI (all items, year-over-year) prints at or above 3.0% when released approximately April 10–11, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-22-283 The BEA Q1 2026 advance GDP estimate released on April 30, 2026 will show negative real GDP growth (annualized rate below 0%), likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by a net exports collapse from pre-tariff import front-loading.
  • pred-2026-05-05-356 The BLS April 2026 CPI report (~May 13 release) will show headline YoY inflation at or above 3.5%, consistent with measurable tariff pass-through crossing that threshold in the April measurement window.
  • pred-2026-05-07-368 The US April 2026 CPI report (released approximately May 13-14) will show year-over-year headline inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating meaningful tariff-driven pass-through to consumer goods prices.
  • pred-2026-05-11-388 The US CPI release on approximately May 12-14, 2026 (measuring April 2026 price levels) will show headline year-over-year inflation at or above 3.5%, indicating that tariff pass-through has cleared the institutional absorption buffers within 8-10 weeks of the April 2026 tariff escalation.

• tariff pass-through inflation mechanics

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  • pred-2026-05-06-360 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at the June 2026 FOMC meeting, announcing no rate reduction, despite ongoing tariff-driven and Hormuz-linked inflationary pressure and emerging signs of demand weakness.

• tariff seigniorage

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  • pred-2026-03-22-075 The BEA will report US February 2026 PCE price index year-over-year at or above 2.6% when released in the final week of March 2026.

• tariff shock

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  • pred-2026-04-27-325 The BEA's advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP (scheduled for release ~April 30, 2026) will show a negative quarter-on-quarter annualized growth rate, i.e., real GDP contraction.

• tariff uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-04-25-316 The BEA advance estimate released April 30, 2026 will show Q1 2026 real GDP growth as negative (below 0.0% annualized), with a point estimate in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading surge mechanically compressing the net-exports component and secondarily by consumer spending deceleration.

• tariff-as-demand-tax

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  • pred-2026-05-01-334 The April 2026 US nonfarm payrolls report (released May 2, 2026) will show net job creation above 150,000, with the headline number in the 160,000–195,000 range, sustained by BLS birth-death model contributions, post-pandemic labor-hoarding norms, and service-sector insulation from goods-sector tariff disruption — despite real underlying deterioration in job quality and a demand-side headwind from tariff-induced income compression and Iran war fiscal lag

• tariff-as-leverage depreciation

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  • pred-2026-05-05-353 The Lula-Trump Washington meeting (week of May 5, 2026) will produce no formal bilateral trade instrument, explicit tariff-exemption commitment, or jointly signed framework document with operative trade language. The sole substantive output will be a ceremonial joint statement with non-binding aspirational language (e.g., 'exploring enhanced cooperation,' sector-level working groups) and no enforceable tariff provisions.

• tariff-as-negotiating-instrument institutional history

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  • pred-2026-04-07-165 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 5, 2026 (released April 10, 2026) will come in BELOW 230,000, remaining consistent with pre-tariff baseline and within the structural lag window before tariff-shock displacement becomes visible in formal claims data.

• tariff-driven supply-side inflation

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  • pred-2026-05-05-355 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.50% at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting, AND the post-meeting statement and Powell press conference will not signal that a rate cut is imminent (i.e., will not pre-commit to or strongly imply a June 2026 cut, defined as no shift to >70% market-implied probability of June cut immediately post-conference).

• tariff-pass-through

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  • pred-2026-03-20-049 February 2026 core PCE inflation (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.7% year-over-year, exceeding the January reading and the Fed's December SEP projection of 2.6%.
  • pred-2026-03-26-111 The US Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE inflation (ex food and energy) at or above 2.7% year-over-year when released on March 28, 2026, materially complicating the FOMC's projected 2026 rate-cut path by causing a deferral of the anticipated June 2026 cut.

• tariff-seigniorage

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  • pred-2026-04-07-169 US headline CPI for March 2026 will print at or above 3.5% year-over-year when released approximately April 10, 2026.

• technocracy

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  • The Subsistence Ratchet: Technocratic Chunking, Denomination Collapse, and the Capture of Bricolage

• technocratic chunking and subsistence ratchet

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  • pred-2026-05-12-394 Treasurer Chalmers' 2026 Federal Budget will declare a nominal fiscal surplus AND include direct household cost-of-living transfers (energy rebates, rent assistance top-ups, targeted payment extensions) exceeding AUD 3 billion in aggregate across all line items.

• teleology

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  • The Anachronism Engine: How Permutation Operates on Memory to Convert Identity-Threat into Nostalgia

• temporal smoothing

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  • pred-2026-03-21-061 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast below 1.0% in the Spring Statement (expected March 26, 2026), down from the October 2025 forecast of approximately 1.6%.

• terrorism

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  • pred-2026-03-25-001 Initial jobless claims for the week ending March 22, 2026 (reported Thursday March 27, 2026) will come in at or above 230,000 seasonally adjusted.

• text-as-ideological-product

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  • pred-2026-04-10-199 The US-Pakistan-Iran Islamabad talks will NOT produce a publicly announced, jointly attributed statement, framework agreement, or ceasefire extension mechanism by April 20, 2026. Any communiqué issued will be a unilateral Pakistani facilitation summary rather than a jointly signed or jointly attributed document.

• theatrical announcement without institutional architecture

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  • pred-2026-03-26-113 The United States and Iran will NOT publicly announce the opening of formal direct bilateral nuclear negotiations on or before May 15, 2026; back-channel or third-party mediation activity may intensify but will not produce a jointly acknowledged formal bilateral announcement within this window.

• theocracy

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  • The Theocratic Conversion Rate: Wordplay, Euphoric Discharge, and the Status-Anxiety Currency Problem
  • pred-2026-03-15-001 Between 2026 and 2028, governance movements across ideological lines will increasingly adopt structurally theocratic obligation-forms — non-negotiable, cosmologically or civilizationally grounded duties that bypass deliberative contestation — as the primary mechanism for generating political compliance, driven by the simultaneous exhaustion of commodity-freedom's meaning-supply (057) and dystopian credit's compliance-supply (065). This will manifest not primarily as the expansion of formal religious governance but as the proliferation of secular-theocratic obligation-claims: climate emergency as sacred duty, civilizational defense as existential covenant, AI alignment as species-level moral imperative, and demographic reproduction as national-spiritual obligation. The structural signature is the conversion of policy preferences into non-negotiable obligations — claims that cannot be weighed against competing goods because they are framed as prior to and constitutive of the political order itself, functioning as the gift-form's (057) final intensification: the non-reciprocable gift elevated from institutional to cosmological register, producing obligation-bonds that no commodity-freedom can discharge.

• third-country sourcing rerouting

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  • pred-2026-04-08-183 US March 2026 headline CPI (year-over-year) will print at or above 3.2% when released approximately April 10, 2026.

• third-party enforcement

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  • pred-2026-05-10-386 A subsequent round of US-Iran indirect nuclear or Hormuz-related talks will be publicly confirmed or announced before 2026-05-24, following Iran's published response to the latest US framework proposal.

• threat-capital depreciation

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  • pred-2026-05-02-339 Iran will not conduct a significant escalation of Hormuz commercial shipping disruption — defined as three or more vessel seizures in a 30-day window, a formally declared exclusion zone, or a mine-laying operation targeting commercial traffic — between May 2 and June 15, 2026.

• threshold management

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  • pred-2026-03-17-023 The United States will NOT execute or publicly authorize direct military strikes on Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026. Proxy-level operations, Iranian-controlled external asset targeting (IRGC positions in Syria/Iraq, Houthi infrastructure), and covert harassment will remain the dominant pressure mode. No White House or DoD public authorization of strikes framed as targeting Iran itself.

• throughput metrics as false consensus

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  • pred-2026-04-08-179 By June 1, 2026, the US-Iran diplomatic process will remain in purely renewable mode: no formal framework agreement, no sanctions relief roadmap, and no enrichment suspension protocol with binding verification architecture will have been produced. The process will generate at least two additional ceasefire extensions and at least one 'framework for talks' or 'principles' communiqué, each of which will itself be a renewable rather than stock instrument.

• throughput vs. accumulation

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  • pred-2026-04-08-175 The first round of US-Iran talks in Islamabad (approximately April 11–15, 2026) will NOT produce a publicly announced joint communiqué, agreed negotiating framework, or explicit agenda document for nuclear/sanctions discussions by April 15, 2026. The publicly observable outcome will be, at most, a vague procedural statement ('constructive atmosphere; parties agreed to continue') that avoids committing either side to a specific agenda, timeline, or negotiating framework.

• throughput vs. resolution

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  • pred-2026-04-07-171 The US and Iran will NOT produce any written diplomatic framework, joint communiqué, or publicly announced schedule for direct negotiations by April 21, 2026 — at most a procedural readout noting talks occurred.

• time-preference asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-04-08-175 The first round of US-Iran talks in Islamabad (approximately April 11–15, 2026) will NOT produce a publicly announced joint communiqué, agreed negotiating framework, or explicit agenda document for nuclear/sanctions discussions by April 15, 2026. The publicly observable outcome will be, at most, a vague procedural statement ('constructive atmosphere; parties agreed to continue') that avoids committing either side to a specific agenda, timeline, or negotiating framework.

• tit-for-tat institutional norm

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  • pred-2026-04-10-195 At least one unannounced tariff measure — executive order imposing new duties, retaliatory product list expansion, or formal suspension of a trade exemption — will be publicly announced by either the US or China between April 10–24, 2026, without having been publicly pre-signaled before April 10.

• transaction cost

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  • pred-2026-04-11-215 By June 6, 2026, at least one NATO member state will formally request renegotiation of US military base access terms or publicly announce an official government review of existing basing agreements, explicitly citing Atlantic realignment dynamics, reduced US credibility, or the Iran crisis as justification.

• transaction cost amplification

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  • pred-2026-03-24-095 TTF natural gas front-month spot price will close above €75/MWh on at least 6 of the 15 trading sessions from March 25 to April 14, 2026, reflecting sustained price elevation from the combined QatarEnergy LNG force majeure and Hormuz disruption shock.

• transaction cost asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-04-11-209 The KMT opposition leader's April 2026 meeting with Xi Jinping will NOT produce a publicly announced formal cross-strait dialogue proposal, joint communiqué, or institutionalized communication channel by June 5, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-13-231 By April 26, 2026, at least 3 G7 members beyond the UK will issue formal, public governmental statements declining to participate in the US Hormuz blockade — most likely Germany, Japan, and France.
  • pred-2026-04-19-255 The UK 'Starmer cover-up' controversy will remain contained as a media/parliamentary questions event with no vote of no confidence, no formal police referral gaining institutional traction, and no statutory inquiry announcement by May 3, 2026.
  • pred-2026-04-21-273 The Starmer government will NOT experience a frontbench resignation or announce a by-election tied specifically to the Robbins/Mandelson vetting scandal within 14 days (by May 5, 2026); accountability pressure will be channeled into parliamentary scrutiny without producing institutional rupture.
  • pred-2026-04-21-275 By June 16, 2026, international Gaza reconstruction pledges announced at any formal conference or donor coordination mechanism will nominally total at least $5B USD, but no operational disbursement mechanism will exist that has transferred capital to Gaza-based entities — leaving commitments as unfunded declarations without a functioning payment architecture.
  • pred-2026-04-23-293 By August 31, 2026, the Israeli government or IDF will formally designate and announce a named military operation or permanent administrative security zone in the northern West Bank (Jenin/Tulkarem corridor or broader), distinct from ad-hoc settler-violence responses — with Operation Iron Wall (January 2025) as the established baseline, meaning any successor named operation, formal escalation of Iron Wall into a permanent administrative zone, or new cabinet/IDF designation of a 'special security zone' with published geographic scope counts as resolution.
  • pred-2026-04-23-297 A publicly confirmed kinetic naval engagement between US forces and Iranian vessels in or near the Strait of Hormuz will occur by May 7, 2026, following Trump's standing shoot order against mine-laying boats.
  • pred-2026-04-26-321 Armed groups will NOT execute a sustained incursion into Bamako's urban core (inside the Boulevard ring road) within 8 weeks of the April 25, 2026 coordinated attacks near Bamako airport — perimeter and peri-urban pressure will continue and likely escalate, but the Boulevard threshold will not be crossed with forces operating inside the ring continuously for 48 hours or more.
  • pred-2026-05-02-338 The UK government will NOT table formal legislation, issue statutory guidance under existing public order powers, or announce an executive restriction specifically targeting categories of pro-Palestine protests by 2026-05-16. Starmer's government will sustain a rhetorical threat posture while confining actual operational restriction to case-by-case police conditions under existing Public Order Act authority, preserving categorical deniability.
  • pred-2026-05-04-350 The UK government will NOT issue a formal diplomatic protest, summon the Israeli ambassador, or announce a policy review specifically citing the treatment of British Gaza flotilla activists requiring hospital care — within 14 days (by 2026-05-18). The government will issue at most a ministerial statement of 'serious concern' and request consular information through normal channels.
  • pred-2026-05-06-358 Brent crude oil futures will NOT decline by more than 4% within 7 days of Trump's Project Freedom pause announcement (by May 13, 2026); expected drawdown is 1–3% before stabilization or partial reversal.
  • pred-2026-05-06-361 The FOMC will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% following its May 6–7, 2026 meeting, explicitly citing Hormuz-driven energy price persistence as an upside inflation risk that precludes easing despite softening growth indicators.
  • pred-2026-05-06-363 The WHO will NOT issue a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) or equivalent formal international health alert (e.g., WHO Grade 3 Emergency with international spread finding) for the South African cruise-ship human-to-human hantavirus strain before June 17, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-07-365 By May 21, 2026, Hezbollah will neither formally declare the 2024 Lebanon ceasefire void nor launch a single retaliatory barrage exceeding 50 projectiles toward northern Israel in response to the reported Beirut strike. Sub-threshold response (drone incursions, cross-border fire under 50 projectiles, diplomatic escalation through Iranian channels) is the expected equilibrium.
  • pred-2026-05-07-369 By June 18, 2026, Israel will formally announce and initiate a large-scale ground military operation explicitly described by the Israeli military as decisive or final-phase, targeting remaining Hamas governance structures in Rafah or northern Gaza, operationally distinct from current targeted raids.
  • pred-2026-05-09-378 The United States will not issue formal sanctions, invoke Article 4 NATO consultation, or publicly demand arms control compliance from Turkey regarding its announced ICBM program by 2026-06-20. Washington will respond at most via private diplomatic channels, rhetorical 'serious concern' statements, and possibly bilateral dialogue framing — all falling short of institutionally formalized action.
  • pred-2026-05-11-392 The United States and China will not publicly issue a joint statement, framework, or communiqué specifically addressing the Iran-Hormuz crisis before May 25, 2026; any diplomatic output from Trump-Xi Iran talks will take the form of separate unilateral readouts with convergent but not jointly authored language.

• transaction cost asymmetry (ambiguity vs written accountability anchor)

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  • pred-2026-04-22-277 No written framework agreement or formal joint communiqué committing both parties to continued structured negotiations will emerge from the current US-Iran talks before April 30, 2026; any public statement will be a unilateral declaration, verbal understanding, or silence — not a jointly-attributed written instrument with process commitments.

• transaction cost asymmetry in institutional revision

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  • pred-2026-03-25-097 The OBR Spring Statement (March 26, 2026) will certify UK fiscal headroom below £5bn against the stability rule, most likely in the £1–3bn range; the Chancellor will maintain nominal compliance through within-rule accounting flexibility (investment/current reclassification, forecast-year adjustment, or spending timing shifts) rather than announcing a formal named revision to the stability rule itself.

• transaction cost asymmetry in judicial reversals

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  • pred-2026-05-09-376 A US federal appellate court (Federal Circuit) will grant an emergency administrative stay reinstating the 10% global baseline tariff within 14 days of the Trade Court ruling, by 2026-05-23, pending full merits briefing and panel review.

• transaction cost barrier

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  • pred-2026-03-17-017 No publicly announced US-China presidential summit or scheduled Xi-Trump direct bilateral communication will be made by May 1, 2026. The relationship will remain in managed-tension equilibrium with back-channel activity but no formal announcement.
  • pred-2026-04-27-330 At least one G7 economy other than Canada will formally announce a new sovereign wealth fund or a qualifying expansion (>$10bn USD equivalent) of an existing public investment vehicle by 2026-06-22.

• transaction cost barrier to coalition reformation

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  • pred-2026-04-07-173 Lebanon's post-ceasefire government will remain formally intact through June 2, 2026 — no formal coalition withdrawal, no declared parliamentary majority loss, no cabinet dissolution — despite continued Israeli airstrikes and deepening sectarian fissures

• transaction cost barriers

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  • pred-2026-04-17-239 The UK government will NOT table formal primary legislation nor sign a provisional framework agreement adopting EU single market rules by 2026-05-30; the most likely outcome is a political declaration, joint working group, or scoping statement that falls short of binding regulatory commitments.

• transaction cost deterrence

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  • pred-2026-04-12-225 The Iran-Hormuz ceasefire will not collapse before April 26, 2026 — neither (a) renewed Iranian military interdiction of commercial shipping nor (b) a formal US or Israeli declaration of resumed offensive operations against Iranian forces will occur within this window.

• transaction cost differential

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  • pred-2026-04-19-257 By June 14, 2026 (within 8 weeks of the Australia-Japan $7bn warships deal signed April 2026), at least one formal multilateral security announcement — an AUKUS addendum, QUAD joint statement, or trilateral Australia-Japan-US operational agreement — will be publicly issued that explicitly cites China, North Korea, or Indo-Pacific deterrence as the security rationale.

• transaction cost escalation

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  • pred-2026-04-20-263 Iraq's ruling Shia bloc will fail to achieve both formal nomination AND parliamentary confirmation of a new prime minister by June 1, 2026, with the process remaining unresolved or stalled at the confirmation stage.

• transaction cost escalation under dynamic external uncertainty

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  • pred-2026-04-21-269 Iraq's Council of Representatives will NOT formally confirm a new Prime Minister by June 7, 2026; the political vacancy will extend past that date, with at most a caretaker or placeholder nomination occurring within the 7-week window.

• transaction cost hierarchy / path dependence (institutionalist mechanism for sanctions-default prediction)

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  • pred-2026-04-23-291 By May 7, 2026, the US government will announce at least one of the following: (1) formal new OFAC/Treasury sanctions specifically naming IRGC naval units involved in the seizure, (2) deployment orders for an additional carrier strike group to the Arabian Sea or Gulf of Oman, or (3) a direct diplomatic channel opening resulting in the seized vessel's release — with Option 1 as the primary mechanism at ≥75% internal probability.

• transaction cost imposition

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  • pred-2026-04-06-161 De facto majority halt of commercial Bab al-Mandeb transits—defined as sustained traffic at ≤50% of pre-October 2023 baseline due to voluntary rerouting and insurance market withdrawal—will persist through May 18, 2026, without requiring a formal Houthi closure declaration.

• transaction cost inflation from path-dependent rupture

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  • pred-2026-04-27-329 The United States and Iran will NOT issue any formal joint statement, agreed framework document, or publicly announced roadmap from their ongoing nuclear/sanctions diplomacy before May 11, 2026.

• transaction cost of collapse vs. continuation

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  • pred-2026-04-21-271 US-Iran nuclear negotiations will not produce a formal framework agreement or substantive joint statement with specific parameters before April 30, 2026; the most likely outcome is either a minimal procedural signal (announced next-round schedule or anodyne communiqué) or quiet continuation without formal public output — not a genuine breakthrough and not outright collapse.

• transaction cost of reclassification

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  • pred-2026-05-09-377 At least one qualifying event will occur between 2026-05-09 and 2026-05-16: Russia formally announcing a new operational phase or mandatory mobilization expansion, OR Ukraine conducting a publicized cross-border strategic strike on Russian territory.

• transaction cost reduction

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  • pred-2026-03-25-101 Pakistan-mediated US-Iran contacts will NOT produce a publicly announced bilateral meeting, formal ceasefire talks, or nuclear negotiation framework by April 30, 2026

• transaction cost spike

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  • pred-2026-04-25-316 The BEA advance estimate released April 30, 2026 will show Q1 2026 real GDP growth as negative (below 0.0% annualized), with a point estimate in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading surge mechanically compressing the net-exports component and secondarily by consumer spending deceleration.

• transaction cost theory under institutional regime discontinuity

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  • pred-2026-04-26-319 The BEA advance estimate of US Q1 2026 GDP (expected release April 29–30, 2026) will show negative annualized quarter-over-quarter growth, most likely in the range of -0.5% to -2.5% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading statistical drag from tariff anticipation and compounded by capital investment deferral and fiscal contraction.

• transaction costs

  0 essays · 4 predictions

  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper
  • pred-2026-04-10-203 By May 22, 2026, neither qualifying formal response will materialize: Beijing will not issue a state-level formal policy statement explicitly upgrading cross-strait engagement terms, and the DPP will not formally prohibit or legally constrain opposition cross-strait diplomatic contact through legislation or enforceable executive order.
  • pred-2026-04-22-287 No written framework, parameters document, or joint statement of principles on US-Iran nuclear de-escalation will be jointly announced by June 15, 2026; talks will remain in procedural or exploratory contact phase at best
  • pred-2026-04-24-311 No Russian warships will be permanently stationed at, and no Russian troops will be based at, Indian military facilities under the April 2026 Russia-India pact by June 19, 2026; the pact will remain a declaratory framework without operational basing. Transient port calls or joint exercises, if they occur, do not constitute falsification.

• transaction costs of escalation

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  • pred-2026-04-06-159 Israel will publicly and explicitly acknowledge conducting at least one direct kinetic military strike on Iranian sovereign territory before April 20, 2026.

• transaction-cost

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  • pred-2026-03-19-047 At least 2 GCC member states beyond Qatar (most likely Saudi Arabia + Bahrain or UAE) will formally downgrade, suspend, or sever diplomatic relations with Iran by May 14, 2026, following Iran's strikes on Qatari LNG infrastructure.

• transaction-cost barriers to maritime coordination

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  • pred-2026-05-04-349 The US Navy will successfully coordinate the transit of at least 3 additional commercially-operated vessels through the Strait of Hormuz under naval escort between 2026-05-04 and 2026-05-14, building on the reported 2-vessel precedent and Trump's public commitment to 'guide' stranded ships.

• transaction-cost buffer

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  • pred-2026-04-07-165 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 5, 2026 (released April 10, 2026) will come in BELOW 230,000, remaining consistent with pre-tariff baseline and within the structural lag window before tariff-shock displacement becomes visible in formal claims data.

• transaction-cost differentiation

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  • pred-2026-05-11-389 The UK King's Speech (delivered within 14 days of 2026-05-11) will include at least one of: (a) a housing supply or planning reform bill, (b) an AI or digital regulation framework bill, or (c) explicit defense spending legislation — confirming that Starmer's 'bolder action' rhetoric converts into a primary legislative program signal rather than remaining soft-instrument rhetoric

• transaction-cost differentiation between agreement types

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  • pred-2026-04-10-199 The US-Pakistan-Iran Islamabad talks will NOT produce a publicly announced, jointly attributed statement, framework agreement, or ceasefire extension mechanism by April 20, 2026. Any communiqué issued will be a unilateral Pakistani facilitation summary rather than a jointly signed or jointly attributed document.

• transaction-cost-asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-03-27-125 By May 15, 2026, the EU Council will advance formal ratification proceedings without incorporating the European Parliament's stated conditions into the treaty text; those conditions will be acknowledged only through non-binding side instruments (political declarations, Commission implementation commitments, or joint interpretive statements).
  • pred-2026-05-11-390 No direct US-Iran naval exchange, vessel seizure by either party, or US military strike on Iranian assets will occur within the 6-week window ending 2026-06-22; the sub-threshold harassment equilibrium holds below the direct-exchange threshold.

• transaction-cost-ceiling

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  • pred-2026-04-11-213 By April 25, 2026, Iran will NOT satisfy both conditions simultaneously: (1) formal Iranian delegation participation in the Islamabad round AND (2) a substantive joint framework or communiqué explicitly addressing Hormuz access conditions with verifiable parameters. The joint probability of both conditions being met is approximately 8%.

• transaction-cost-differential

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  • pred-2026-03-23-081 By April 6, 2026, at least one publicly confirmed instance of direct or indirect US-Iran diplomatic communication will occur — through the Omani channel, a UN interlocutor, or an official statement from any party acknowledging that talks are underway — as opposed to continued public escalation or formal rejection of negotiations on all fronts.

• transaction-costs

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  • pred-2026-03-23-083 The Supreme Court of Canada will neither issue a substantive ruling striking down nor grant leave to appeal in a manner that substantially limits Quebec's Bill 21 (Act Respecting the Laicity of the State) before May 18, 2026.
  • pred-2026-05-03-344 The UK government will NOT formally declare an energy emergency or extend mandatory energy rationing beyond the existing airline cancellation order by 2026-05-17; energy management will proceed through escalating sector-specific administrative orders while preserving market governance architecture.

• transmission mechanism impairment

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  • pred-2026-04-28-332 The Federal Reserve will hold the federal funds target rate unchanged at 4.25–4.50% at the conclusion of the May 6–7, 2026 FOMC meeting, with no dissents favoring a rate cut.

• transparency-legitimacy framing

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  • pred-2026-03-25-107 The UK government's proposed ban on cryptocurrency political donations will pass second reading in the House of Commons by 15 May 2026.

• trapped equilibrium (formal coups suppressed, informal fragmentation accumulates)

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  • pred-2026-04-27-327 By 2026-07-26 (within 90 days of Defence Minister Camara's assassination), the Malian transitional government will experience at least one of: (a) a formal military coup replacing the Goïta-led junta, (b) an officially announced dissolution or restructuring of the unified military command, or (c) a publicly acknowledged loss of administrative control over a named provincial capital. The most probable pathway is acknowledged provincial capital loss or announced command restructuring; a formal coup is the least likely criterion due to novel Wagner/AES transaction-cost constraints absent in prior Malian episodes.

• treasury float

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  • pred-2026-04-20-261 By May 4, 2026, the US tariff refund system will face publicly documented administrative backlog, processing freeze, or formal capacity warning — sourced from CBP, USTR, a major trade publication (Journal of Commerce, Inside US Trade, Bloomberg), or a major trade association (NAM, NRF, or equivalent) — attributable to simultaneous mass filing pressure from thousands of importers at launch.

• treasury-obr buffering mechanism and credibility constraint

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  • pred-2026-03-19-045 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth projection below 1.5% in its Spring 2026 forecast published alongside the Spring Statement on or around March 26, 2026

• tribunal

  3 essays · 0 predictions

  • Policy Brief: Minting Recognition at the Boundary
  • Policy Brief: The Algorithmic Tribunal Gap
  • The Evidentiary Constitution of Property: Tribunal, Omen, and the Insurrection Threshold

• tribute-vs-subsidy reframing

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  • pred-2026-05-03-342 The United States will NOT formally announce a net reduction of at least 10,000 troops stationed in Germany, Italy, or Spain by June 28, 2026 — despite Germany's 'anticipated' withdrawal signal and Spain/Italy being cited as next candidates. Withdrawal signaling will continue verbally and through informal restructuring, but no DoD-level formal announcement triggering NDAA notification thresholds will materialize within this window.

• trickster

  1 essay · 0 predictions

  • The Interest Trickster: Executive Temporality, Joy's Absence, and the Discount Rate as Governance Grammar

• trickster-executive

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  • pred-2026-05-03-343 A fourth formal round of Iran-US nuclear negotiations will NOT be publicly announced or formally scheduled by 2026-05-17, despite the US having formally responded to Iran's latest peace proposal.

• trickster-executive temporal pattern

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  • pred-2026-05-03-341 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its May 6-7, 2026 meeting AND issue a statement with hawkish or hold-biased forward guidance that explicitly declines to signal rate cuts in H1 2026, citing elevated inflation uncertainty from tariff pass-through and energy price pressure.

• trump premium

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  • pred-2026-04-27-329 The United States and Iran will NOT issue any formal joint statement, agreed framework document, or publicly announced roadmap from their ongoing nuclear/sanctions diplomacy before May 11, 2026.

• turnout compression

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  • pred-2026-04-21-265 Reform UK will finish in second place ahead of the Conservative Party in the Birmingham by-election, while Labour retains the seat with a majority below 5,000 votes

• two-front blocking equilibrium

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  • pred-2026-05-13-401 The Chalmers capital gains and negative gearing reform package will not pass the Australian Senate in its original form by May 27, 2026 — defined as: legislation either failing to reach a final Senate vote, being defeated outright, or passing only with material amendments (grandfathering of existing investment properties broadly extended, CGT discount reduction reduced by more than 10 percentage points from Chalmers' proposal, or implementation timeline delayed beyond 36 months from the bill's original schedule).

• type ii error protection

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  • pred-2026-04-22-281 At least one of WFP, OCHA, or the IPC Famine Review Committee will formally declare IPC Phase 5 (famine) conditions in at least one zone of Gaza by June 17, 2026.

• ui coverage gap

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  • pred-2026-04-07-165 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 5, 2026 (released April 10, 2026) will come in BELOW 230,000, remaining consistent with pre-tariff baseline and within the structural lag window before tariff-shock displacement becomes visible in formal claims data.

• ui measurement architecture

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  • pred-2026-04-18-241 US initial jobless claims for the week ending April 19, 2026 (released April 24) will come in at or above 225,000, reflecting cumulative disruption from tariff-driven layoffs, federal workforce reductions, and associated secondary demand contraction.

• uk current account deficit

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  • pred-2026-03-24-091 The OBR will revise its 2026 UK GDP growth forecast downward by at least 0.5 percentage points from its Autumn 2025 Statement projection in the Spring Statement 2026 fiscal event on March 26, 2026.

• uncertainty-ep

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  • Policy Brief: Redirecting Pro-Natalist Spending Toward Class-Reproduction Cost Reduction

• unclos transit passage norm erosion

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  • pred-2026-04-10-201 Commercial tanker passage through the Strait of Hormuz will recover to at least 60% of pre-conflict baseline traffic volumes by April 24, 2026, following ceasefire diplomacy.

• unclos-transit-passage

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  • pred-2026-03-28-137 Iran will NOT publicly announce an explicit fee structure, passage permit regime, or formal transit agreement for Strait of Hormuz commercial shipping by May 15, 2026; informal selective extraction, ad hoc escort demands, and insurance-market pressure will continue as the dominant extraction mode with no legible institutionalization.

• under-reporting commons

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  • pred-2026-05-06-363 The WHO will NOT issue a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) or equivalent formal international health alert (e.g., WHO Grade 3 Emergency with international spread finding) for the South African cruise-ship human-to-human hantavirus strain before June 17, 2026.

• underconsumption dynamic

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  • pred-2026-04-25-316 The BEA advance estimate released April 30, 2026 will show Q1 2026 real GDP growth as negative (below 0.0% annualized), with a point estimate in the range of -0.5% to -2.0% annualized, driven primarily by the import front-loading surge mechanically compressing the net-exports component and secondarily by consumer spending deceleration.

• unemployment insurance experience-rating

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  • pred-2026-05-01-334 The April 2026 US nonfarm payrolls report (released May 2, 2026) will show net job creation above 150,000, with the headline number in the 160,000–195,000 range, sustained by BLS birth-death model contributions, post-pandemic labor-hoarding norms, and service-sector insulation from goods-sector tariff disruption — despite real underlying deterioration in job quality and a demand-side headwind from tariff-induced income compression and Iran war fiscal lag

• united-front strategy as constitutive constraint

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  • pred-2026-04-11-209 The KMT opposition leader's April 2026 meeting with Xi Jinping will NOT produce a publicly announced formal cross-strait dialogue proposal, joint communiqué, or institutionalized communication channel by June 5, 2026.

• unsc authorization as institutional switch

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  • pred-2026-04-13-231 By April 26, 2026, at least 3 G7 members beyond the UK will issue formal, public governmental statements declining to participate in the US Hormuz blockade — most likely Germany, Japan, and France.

• urbanization

  1 essay · 1 prediction

  • The Circulatory Boundary: Stranger-Domestication, Urbanization, and the Retaliatory Management of Flow
  • pred-2026-03-11-001 The FOMC will hold the federal funds rate unchanged at its March 18-19, 2026 meeting, maintaining the current target range.

• us-as-external-stabilizer mechanism

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  • pred-2026-04-06-159 Israel will publicly and explicitly acknowledge conducting at least one direct kinetic military strike on Iranian sovereign territory before April 20, 2026.

• ustr path dependence

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  • pred-2026-05-05-353 The Lula-Trump Washington meeting (week of May 5, 2026) will produce no formal bilateral trade instrument, explicit tariff-exemption commitment, or jointly signed framework document with operative trade language. The sole substantive output will be a ceremonial joint statement with non-binding aspirational language (e.g., 'exploring enhanced cooperation,' sector-level working groups) and no enforceable tariff provisions.

• vacancy-myth-occupation circuit

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  • pred-2026-03-29-149 HM Government will formally announce at least two material privatization initiatives — including NHS trust transfers, public utility stake disposals, public land sales, infrastructure fund transfers, or functionally equivalent arm's-length asset transfers denominated as fiscal consolidation measures — by 2026-12-31, even if not labeled 'privatization' in ministerial statements.

• verification institution design lag

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  • pred-2026-04-28-333 The US and Iran will NOT announce a formal written framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program before June 23, 2026; the diplomatic channel will remain in 'talks continuing' ambiguity mode throughout the window.

• verification ratchet

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  • pred-2026-04-09-189 By April 22, 2026, neither the United States nor Iran will publicly announce withdrawal, suspension, or termination of the ceasefire framework — the formal diplomatic shell will remain intact despite ongoing sub-formal violations in Lebanon and continued unresolved terms in the 10-point plan.

• verification-cost premium

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  • pred-2026-05-05-357 The US-China tariff standoff will persist without formal structural engagement through June 30, 2026 — no joint US-China statement on tariff negotiation, no ministerial-level or above bilateral negotiating session, and no publicly announced mutual tariff suspension on any product category will emerge before that date.

• veto

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  • pred-2026-05-09-001 The Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI report for April 2026 (all items, seasonally adjusted) will show a positive month-over-month change — i.e., the index will be higher than the March 2026 reading.

• veto as rent-extraction instrument

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  • pred-2026-03-22-077 By May 15, 2026, the EU will formally approve a Ukraine financial support package of €35bn or more — either through Hungarian consent obtained via bilateral side-payment (cohesion fund releases or rule-of-law concessions) or through a mechanism that structurally reduces Hungary's formal veto surface (ERA instrument backed by frozen Russian asset revenues, enhanced cooperation, or G7 extraordinary-revenue vehicle).

• veto player

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  • pred-2026-03-28-141 No publicly announced meeting, de-escalation framework, or formal diplomatic signal between the US and Iran will emerge from Pakistan's mediation by April 11, 2026; back-channel activity will continue but remain below the public announcement threshold.

• veto player alignment cycles

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  • pred-2026-04-22-277 No written framework agreement or formal joint communiqué committing both parties to continued structured negotiations will emerge from the current US-Iran talks before April 30, 2026; any public statement will be a unilateral declaration, verbal understanding, or silence — not a jointly-attributed written instrument with process commitments.

• veto player architecture

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  • pred-2026-04-21-267 By May 5, 2026, neither the US nor Iran will publicly acknowledge the reported Islamabad back-channel talks through any jointly recognized framework, agreed formal agenda, or confirmed next-round meeting date; the public-denial/back-channel split will persist without official acknowledgment from either Tehran or Washington.

• veto player calculus

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  • pred-2026-04-19-253 The US-Pakistan-Iran diplomatic track will NOT produce a publicly announced tangible output — no joint communiqué, agreed framework, or confirmed next round of direct/indirect talks — by May 3, 2026; the ceiling outcome is an informal 'constructive discussions' readout below the threshold of tangible diplomatic product.

• veto player dynamics

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  • pred-2026-03-18-029 The United States will NOT announce or commence a direct kinetic military strike against Iranian sovereign territory by April 30, 2026; the US will continue Houthi/proxy targeting and escalatory posturing without crossing into direct strikes on Iran proper

• veto player multiplication

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  • pred-2026-04-27-329 The United States and Iran will NOT issue any formal joint statement, agreed framework document, or publicly announced roadmap from their ongoing nuclear/sanctions diplomacy before May 11, 2026.

• veto player multiplicity

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  • pred-2026-03-29-155 No publicly announced interim agreement, confidence-building measure, or joint statement will emerge from the Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic track by April 30, 2026. Back-channel activity will continue, but the threshold of public announcement will not be crossed.

• veto player proliferation

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  • pred-2026-04-07-173 Lebanon's post-ceasefire government will remain formally intact through June 2, 2026 — no formal coalition withdrawal, no declared parliamentary majority loss, no cabinet dissolution — despite continued Israeli airstrikes and deepening sectarian fissures
  • pred-2026-04-08-179 By June 1, 2026, the US-Iran diplomatic process will remain in purely renewable mode: no formal framework agreement, no sanctions relief roadmap, and no enrichment suspension protocol with binding verification architecture will have been produced. The process will generate at least two additional ceasefire extensions and at least one 'framework for talks' or 'principles' communiqué, each of which will itself be a renewable rather than stock instrument.

• veto player reduction

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  • pred-2026-05-05-354 By June 30, 2026, Germany will formally announce a multi-year defense spending pathway that explicitly meets or exceeds the NATO 2% GDP floor AND cites the Bundestag-approved Schuldenbremse exemption (or a supplementary fiscal act) as its legal-fiscal basis — rather than leaving the commitment as a vague political pledge or a government-only white paper without legislative backing.

• veto player topology

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  • pred-2026-03-25-101 Pakistan-mediated US-Iran contacts will NOT produce a publicly announced bilateral meeting, formal ceasefire talks, or nuclear negotiation framework by April 30, 2026

• veto players

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  • pred-2026-04-08-175 The first round of US-Iran talks in Islamabad (approximately April 11–15, 2026) will NOT produce a publicly announced joint communiqué, agreed negotiating framework, or explicit agenda document for nuclear/sanctions discussions by April 15, 2026. The publicly observable outcome will be, at most, a vague procedural statement ('constructive atmosphere; parties agreed to continue') that avoids committing either side to a specific agenda, timeline, or negotiating framework.

• veto-as-allocation-denial

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  • pred-2026-05-09-001 The Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI report for April 2026 (all items, seasonally adjusted) will show a positive month-over-month change — i.e., the index will be higher than the March 2026 reading.

• veto-player architecture

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  • pred-2026-04-10-199 The US-Pakistan-Iran Islamabad talks will NOT produce a publicly announced, jointly attributed statement, framework agreement, or ceasefire extension mechanism by April 20, 2026. Any communiqué issued will be a unilateral Pakistani facilitation summary rather than a jointly signed or jointly attributed document.

• veto-player saturation

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  • pred-2026-04-18-243 No formal written ceasefire framework, interim nuclear deal, or jointly-acknowledged negotiating document will be publicly announced by both the US and Iran by May 2, 2026; the Oman channel will produce at most ambiguous unilateral statements or vague claims of 'constructive' progress

• veto-player-architecture

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  • pred-2026-04-11-213 By April 25, 2026, Iran will NOT satisfy both conditions simultaneously: (1) formal Iranian delegation participation in the Islamabad round AND (2) a substantive joint framework or communiqué explicitly addressing Hormuz access conditions with verifiable parameters. The joint probability of both conditions being met is approximately 8%.

• veto-player-calculus

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  • pred-2026-03-24-093 By April 7, 2026, no formal public confirmation of direct or Pakistan-mediated US-Iran diplomatic talks will be issued by official representatives of any of the three governments.

• veto-player-structure

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  • pred-2026-03-25-105 By April 8, 2026, the US and Iran will NOT publicly confirm a scheduled direct or Oman-mediated bilateral meeting at deputy-foreign-minister level or above to discuss nuclear or military de-escalation terms.

• veto-players

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  • pred-2026-05-03-343 A fourth formal round of Iran-US nuclear negotiations will NOT be publicly announced or formally scheduled by 2026-05-17, despite the US having formally responded to Iran's latest peace proposal.

• veto-point accumulation

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  • pred-2026-05-05-357 The US-China tariff standoff will persist without formal structural engagement through June 30, 2026 — no joint US-China statement on tariff negotiation, no ministerial-level or above bilateral negotiating session, and no publicly announced mutual tariff suspension on any product category will emerge before that date.

• victory day path-dependence

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  • pred-2026-05-09-377 At least one qualifying event will occur between 2026-05-09 and 2026-05-16: Russia formally announcing a new operational phase or mandatory mobilization expansion, OR Ukraine conducting a publicized cross-border strategic strike on Russian territory.

• voice-capacity degradation

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  • pred-2026-04-22-285 No UK cabinet minister will resign from government directly citing the Doyle job controversy, and no formal Labour Party no-confidence mechanism against Starmer will be triggered, before May 6, 2026.

• vote-seat translation function

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  • pred-2026-03-26-119 Fidesz wins at least 133 of 199 parliamentary seats in the April 2026 Hungarian election, retaining its two-thirds constitutional supermajority.

• vote-to-seat conversion asymmetry

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  • pred-2026-04-11-211 Fidesz-KDNP retains parliamentary majority and government formation capacity in Hungary's April 2026 national vote; Péter Magyar's Tisza opposition achieves a polling-competitive performance but fails to translate vote proximity into a decisive seat majority — final governing-coalition seat share remains above 50%.

• wage expectation anchoring

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  • pred-2026-03-23-079 The Bureau of Economic Analysis will report February 2026 core PCE price index at or above 2.8% year-over-year when data releases on or around March 28, 2026.

• wage-contract lock-in

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  • pred-2026-03-22-067 The BEA's February 2026 core PCE price index release (~March 28, 2026) will show core PCE inflation at or above 2.8% year-over-year.

• wage-price norms

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  • pred-2026-03-26-115 The February 2026 PCE price index (released ~March 28, 2026) will print at or above 2.8% year-over-year.

• wage-price spiral

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  • pred-2026-05-05-356 The BLS April 2026 CPI report (~May 13 release) will show headline YoY inflation at or above 3.5%, consistent with measurable tariff pass-through crossing that threshold in the April measurement window.

• wagner/aes transaction-cost elevation

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  • pred-2026-04-27-327 By 2026-07-26 (within 90 days of Defence Minister Camara's assassination), the Malian transitional government will experience at least one of: (a) a formal military coup replacing the Goïta-led junta, (b) an officially announced dissolution or restructuring of the unified military command, or (c) a publicly acknowledged loss of administrative control over a named provincial capital. The most probable pathway is acknowledged provincial capital loss or announced command restructuring; a formal coup is the least likely criterion due to novel Wagner/AES transaction-cost constraints absent in prior Malian episodes.

• war

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  • pred-2026-04-22-001 By July 31, 2026, the ongoing US-Iran Hormuz confrontation will have provided the political authorization for at least one invocation of emergency executive authority — Defense Production Act (DPA), International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), or Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) emergency drawdown — explicitly linked to Persian Gulf supply disruption, demonstrating the structural mechanism by which near-war states provide institutional authorization that would face prohibitive political resistance during peacetime.

• war powers resolution

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  • pred-2026-05-01-336 Congress will not advance any war powers resolution, supplemental appropriations bill, or defunding amendment specifically addressing the Iran military operation to a committee vote by June 26, 2026.

• war powers resolution (1973) — design as legitimation-not-constraint

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  • pred-2026-05-12-399 No US Congressional committee will hold formal hearings specifically on an Iran AUMF authorization or advance an emergency supplemental appropriations bill specifically for Iran military operations to floor vote by June 23, 2026; any Congressional activity will be limited to non-binding oversight measures (press releases, informal briefings, or non-binding resolutions introduced but not voted).

• war risk insurance premium ratchet

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  • pred-2026-03-16-007 Brent crude oil will close above $95/barrel on at least 7 of the 10 trading days spanning March 17–28, 2026, given ongoing US-Israeli strikes on Iran and continued selective Hormuz passage

• war risk insurance repricing

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  • pred-2026-04-17-235 Brent crude oil will exceed $110/bbl on at least one trading day between 2026-04-17 and 2026-04-27, given the active US naval blockade of Iranian ports and a $103/bbl baseline.

• war risk insurance structural lag

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  • pred-2026-04-10-201 Commercial tanker passage through the Strait of Hormuz will recover to at least 60% of pre-conflict baseline traffic volumes by April 24, 2026, following ceasefire diplomacy.

• war-economy extraction equilibrium

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  • pred-2026-05-07-367 Putin's May 9, 2026 Victory Day address and surrounding official communications through May 14 will contain neither (a) a substantive unilateral ceasefire proposal with concrete operational terms directed at Ukraine or NATO, nor (b) a formal military escalation announcement such as a new mobilization wave, a new annexation declaration of territory beyond currently claimed oblasts, or an explicit expansion of formal war aims. The address will maintain existing war-justification framing with rhetorical intensification but no structural departure in either direction. If ceasefire-adjacent language appears, it will be encoded as performative diplomacy with conditions calibrated to fail (e.g., NATO withdrawal or no-membership guarantees) rather than a genuine diplomatic initiative.

• war-premium seigniorage

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  • pred-2026-04-18-243 No formal written ceasefire framework, interim nuclear deal, or jointly-acknowledged negotiating document will be publicly announced by both the US and Iran by May 2, 2026; the Oman channel will produce at most ambiguous unilateral statements or vague claims of 'constructive' progress

• war-risk insurance as liquidity premium analog

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  • pred-2026-05-04-349 The US Navy will successfully coordinate the transit of at least 3 additional commercially-operated vessels through the Strait of Hormuz under naval escort between 2026-05-04 and 2026-05-14, building on the reported 2-vessel precedent and Trump's public commitment to 'guide' stranded ships.

• war-risk insurance institutional inertia

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  • pred-2026-03-16-011 Tanker transit volume through the Strait of Hormuz will remain at least 40% below pre-conflict baseline through June 30, 2026, with durable rerouting of Gulf crude exports toward alternative corridors (Saudi East-West Pipeline, UAE Fujairah) becoming structurally embedded regardless of formal closure status.

• war-risk ratchet pricing

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  • pred-2026-05-11-391 Brent crude oil spot price will NOT breach $95 per barrel on any trading day close between May 12 and May 18, 2026, despite the confirmed Strait of Hormuz cargo ship attack at Day 71+ of escalation — a spike of $4–8 intraday is plausible but sustained closes above $95 are not.

• westminster path-dependence

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  • pred-2026-04-22-285 No UK cabinet minister will resign from government directly citing the Doyle job controversy, and no formal Labour Party no-confidence mechanism against Starmer will be triggered, before May 6, 2026.

• westminster processing speed

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  • pred-2026-04-21-273 The Starmer government will NOT experience a frontbench resignation or announce a by-election tied specifically to the Robbins/Mandelson vetting scandal within 14 days (by May 5, 2026); accountability pressure will be channeled into parliamentary scrutiny without producing institutional rupture.

• whipping discipline

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  • pred-2026-04-22-279 None of the three formal challenge triggers materialize by May 6, 2026: no cabinet-level resignation directly linked to the Robbins/diplomatic-job revelations, no formal Labour leadership nomination letter signed by 20+ MPs, and no government defeat on a Commons confidence-adjacent motion.

• whipsaw harm as hayekian argument for staying regime reversal

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  • pred-2026-05-09-380 The Trump administration will secure a judicial emergency stay (from the circuit court, SCOTUS, or both) reinstating the 10% global tariff regime by May 23, 2026 — within 14 days of the Court of International Trade ruling striking it down.

• wiederbewaffnung pattern (1950-1955): us structural dependency converted nominal pacifism into nato integration via legitimating ideology

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  • pred-2026-05-03-345 By 2026-06-14, the German government will formally announce a substantial modification to its troop reduction decision — defined as an implementation pause, supplementary force commitment, or ministerial reframing that functionally conditions or negates the original reduction — in response to combined US Republican pressure and Russian border signaling. A clean formal retraction is not required; a face-saving reformulation that satisfies allied stakeholders counts as YES.

• wordplay

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  • The Theocratic Conversion Rate: Wordplay, Euphoric Discharge, and the Status-Anxiety Currency Problem

• work requirements

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  • pred-2026-05-10-387 The House Agriculture Committee will approve a reconciliation markup including SNAP spending reductions and/or new or expanded work requirements before 2026-06-30, with eligibility restrictions (categorical eligibility elimination, ABAWD expansion, or BBCE elimination) carrying the primary fiscal scoring weight alongside work requirement language.

• wpr path dependence

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  • pred-2026-05-01-336 Congress will not advance any war powers resolution, supplemental appropriations bill, or defunding amendment specifically addressing the Iran military operation to a committee vote by June 26, 2026.

• wto appellate body vacancy

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  • pred-2026-05-05-357 The US-China tariff standoff will persist without formal structural engagement through June 30, 2026 — no joint US-China statement on tariff negotiation, no ministerial-level or above bilateral negotiating session, and no publicly announced mutual tariff suspension on any product category will emerge before that date.

• wto article 22 rebalancing

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  • pred-2026-04-10-197 The European Commission will NOT formally adopt a comprehensive retaliatory tariff or countermeasure package targeting US goods that clearly goes beyond existing WTO-route safeguard measures by May 31, 2026; instead, the Commission will adopt a phased framework authorization, safeguard extension, or Anti-Coercion Instrument activation notice that preserves escalation optionality without crossing the 'comprehensive, beyond WTO-route' threshold specified.

• wto commons degradation

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  • pred-2026-04-27-325 The BEA's advance estimate of US Q1 2026 real GDP (scheduled for release ~April 30, 2026) will show a negative quarter-on-quarter annualized growth rate, i.e., real GDP contraction.

• wto deterrence erosion and institutional switching-cost reduction

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  • pred-2026-03-26-109 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include a publicly stated blanket tariff rate of 10% or higher on EU goods in non-automotive, non-steel sectors, confirmed in official White House or Federal Register communication on or before April 4, 2026.

• wto escape valve

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  • pred-2026-03-15-003 At least one major G7 economy will announce new import tariffs or domestic industrial subsidies in Q2-Q3 2026 (April–September 2026) explicitly framed as 'protecting workers,' 'industrial fairness,' or equivalent labor-solidarity language, where independent distributional analysis confirms the primary economic beneficiary is an upstream extractive or capital-intensive monopoly sector rather than the downstream labor force named in the announcement.

• wto governance vacuum

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  • pred-2026-03-29-151 Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' announcement will include blanket tariffs of ≥10% on imports from at least one of EU, Japan, South Korea, or Mexico.
  • pred-2026-04-10-195 At least one unannounced tariff measure — executive order imposing new duties, retaliatory product list expansion, or formal suspension of a trade exemption — will be publicly announced by either the US or China between April 10–24, 2026, without having been publicly pre-signaled before April 10.

• wto governance-commons exit

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  • pred-2026-04-24-307 The BEA advance estimate of Q1 2026 real GDP growth (released ~April 30, 2026) will show negative annualized growth — a technical contraction below 0% — driven primarily by a large negative net-exports contribution from pre-tariff import front-loading, compounded by suppressed fixed investment.

• wto mfn rule as institutional friction

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  • pred-2026-04-25-314 The King Charles visit to President Trump (by 2026-04-28) will NOT result in a formal US public announcement of tariff relief, exemption, or bilateral trade framework for UK goods by 2026-05-05. The most likely output is a joint statement with aspirational trade language and announcement of accelerated negotiations or a bilateral working group.

• yoshida doctrine path dependence

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  • pred-2026-03-19-041 The Japanese government will publicly reject, formally challenge, or announce a counter-proposal to the reported ~$6bn SoftBank fee embedded in US bilateral trade deal terms by April 16, 2026 — most likely reframing the demand as an investment pledge or FDI commitment rather than issuing a clean structural rejection.

• yoshida international v. us deference template

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  • pred-2026-05-08-371 The Trump administration will obtain an emergency appellate stay of the Court of International Trade ruling invalidating the 10% global baseline tariffs within 14 days of that ruling (by May 21, 2026), keeping the tariffs operationally in force pending full appellate review.

• zeitenwende (2022): rapid reversal under threshold shock — demonstrates german institutional capacity for rapid recalibration

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  • pred-2026-05-03-345 By 2026-06-14, the German government will formally announce a substantial modification to its troop reduction decision — defined as an implementation pause, supplementary force commitment, or ministerial reframing that functionally conditions or negates the original reduction — in response to combined US Republican pressure and Russian border signaling. A clean formal retraction is not required; a face-saving reformulation that satisfies allied stakeholders counts as YES.