Future Index

North America

The same four readings, over the topics this product tracks under north america. Every panel below is ranked within that selection rather than filtered out of a world-wide ranking.

World conditions

An unusually active day

Attention67elevated±0.2 ptsunchanged over 24 hours

Where the Attention figure comes from, what it reads and what it does not claim. Method version 5.0.0.

How Attention is calculated

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High confidence0.71
3 sourcesSearch & activity2Public discussion1
17 items
Mood+2about as usual14.9 ptsdown over 24 hours

Where the Mood figure comes from, what it reads and what it does not claim. Method version 5.0.0.

How Mood is calculated

28% positive · 55% neutral · 17% negative

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High confidence0.89
2 sourcesPublic discussion2
1,206 items
Turbulence42active+10.4 ptsup over 24 hours

Where the Turbulence figure comes from, what it reads and what it does not claim. Method version 5.0.0.

How Turbulence is calculated

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High confidence0.93
5 sourcesForecast markets2Search & activity2Public discussion1
527 items
Disagreement40some disagreement27.0 ptsdown over 24 hours

Where the Disagreement figure comes from, what it reads and what it does not claim. Method version 5.0.0.

How Disagreement is calculated

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Low confidence0.39
2 sourcesPublic discussion2
847 items

Forecast conditions

Forecast Movement57moving±0.3 ptsunchanged over 24 hours

Where the Forecast Movement figure comes from, what it reads and what it does not claim. Method version 5.0.0.

How Forecast Movement is calculated

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High confidence0.93
2 sourcesForecast markets2
102 items

102 questions · 2 sources

Forecast Movement measures how much expectations moved, not whether they moved towards any particular outcome. Why there is no single score, why what we can see is reported separately.

The last 24 hours, without the explanations

What changed today

The largest movements across forecasts, attention, discussion sentiment and reporting in the last 24 hours, each compared with how much that topic usually moves.

Nothing moved beyond its usual range over this window. 286 measurements were compared.

286 changes were compared. Not shown: 153 with nothing to compare against, 133 within their usual range.

All changes today

Signals moving together

  1. QUIET MOVE

    Forecast probability moved while public attention stayed at its usual level.

    US recession risk

    Forecast
    12.0 pts over 24 hours, across 1 contract
    US recession by end of 2026? from 23.5% to 11.5%
    Public attention
    -0.2σ from usual, 2 sources

    Strength within quiet move: 60%

    • Public discussionhackernews
    • Search & activityinternal_analytics
    • Forecast marketspolymarket
    • One forecast contract moved.
    • Some of the underlying activity was discounted as concentrated.
  2. QUIET MOVE

    Forecast probability moved while public attention stayed at its usual level.

    Donald Trump

    Forecast
    8.0 pts over 24 hours, across 2 contracts
    Public attention
    0.5σ from usual, 2 sources

    Strength within quiet move: 40%

    • Public discussionhackernews
    • Search & activityinternal_analytics
    • Forecast marketspolymarket
    • Some of the underlying activity was discounted as concentrated.
  3. QUIET MOVE

    Forecast probability moved while public attention stayed at its usual level.

    US Congress

    Forecast
    5.0 pts over 24 hours, across 3 contracts
    Public attention
    -0.2σ from usual, 2 sources

    Strength within quiet move: 25%

    • Public discussionhackernews
    • Search & activityinternal_analytics
    • Forecast marketspolymarket
    • Some of the underlying activity was discounted as concentrated.
2 further detections on this page — show them
  1. QUIET MOVE

    Forecast probability moved while public attention stayed at its usual level.

    US state politics

    Forecast
    8.5 pts over 24 hours, across 1 contract
    Public attention
    0.8σ from usual, 2 sources

    Strength within quiet move: 24%

    • Public discussionhackernews
    • Search & activityinternal_analytics
    • Forecast marketspolymarket
    • One forecast contract moved.
    • Some of the underlying activity was discounted as concentrated.
  2. NARRATIVE GAP

    News coverage rose while public attention stayed at its usual level.

    US Federal Reserve

    Public attention
    -0.1σ from usual, 2 sources
    Coverage
    7 separate reports, 5.3σ from usual

    Strength within narrative gap: 66%

    • Public discussionhackernews
    • Search & activityinternal_analytics
    • The coverage baseline covers a short history.
    • Some of the underlying activity was discounted as concentrated.
    • One of the signals is older than its usual update interval.

Biggest movers

  1. about usual
    +14.9 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Low confidence
    • 3 sources
    • Politics
  2. NFL64
    about usual
    +9.1 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Low confidence
    • 3 sources
    • Sports
  3. elevated
    +6.9 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Low confidence
    • 3 sources
    • Economy
5 further topics moved less — show them
  1. below usual
    +6.1 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Medium confidence
    • 2 sources
    • Politics
  2. unusually high
    +4.1 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Low confidence
    • 3 sources
    • Politics
  3. about usual
    +3.9 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Low confidence
    • 3 sources
    • Economy
  4. NBA53
    about usual
    +3.6 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Low confidence
    • 3 sources
    • Sports
  5. about usual
    +2.8 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Low confidence
    • 3 sources
    • Economy

All measurements and ranges

Trending topics

  1. One kind of source is unusually busy with this
    • Looked up
    • discounted — few accounts carried the activity

Where sources disagree

No topic currently shows a material difference between how much is being published about it and how much it is being discussed. A comparison needs both sides: a topic only one of them has anything to say about is not a disagreement.

The world by category

Data conditions

How well this site can currently see. None of this is a reading of the world, and none of it changes the figures above.

Measurement quality
77%
Coverage
60% — 6 of 10 sources reporting
Freshness
Up to date
Representativeness
Moderate
  • 17 online communities
  • 3 kinds of evidence
  • one language scored; 3 more seen and not scored; 362 items carried no identification
  • 1 of 6 regions, over 17 located subjects

How these are worked out, and why they are kept separate from the readings