Future Index

Economy in North America

The same four readings, over the topics this product tracks under economy in 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

AttentionNot yet

This figure has not moved at all across the whole window it is compared against, so there is no spread to place today's reading on.

Mood−5about as usual+11.7 ptsup 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

30% positive · 59% neutral · 11% negative

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Medium confidence0.69
2 sourcesPublic discussion2
268 items
Turbulence64turbulent+29.4 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 confidence0.78
3 sourcesForecast markets2Search & activity1
192 items
DisagreementNot yet

Fewer than two independent communities have said anything about this part of the world, and one community cannot disagree with itself.

Forecast conditions

Forecast Movement68moving+23.9 ptsup 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 confidence0.79
2 sourcesForecast markets2
18 items

18 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.

211 changes were compared. Not shown: 103 with nothing to compare against, 107 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. 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. elevated
    +7.3 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Low confidence
    • 3 sources
    • Economy
  2. about usual
    +3.9 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Low confidence
    • 3 sources
    • Economy
  3. about usual
    +2.8 ptsup over 24 hours
    • Low confidence
    • 3 sources
    • Economy

All measurements and ranges

Trending topics

No topic is unusually busy across enough kinds of source to be listed. This panel is empty when the tracked topics are at their usual levels — it is not a reading of the world at large.

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.

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
45%
Coverage
50% — 5 of 10 sources reporting
Freshness
Up to date
Representativeness
Limited
  • 2 online communities
  • 3 kinds of evidence
  • one language scored; 72 items carried no identification
  • 1 of 6 regions, over 4 located subjects

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