Will there be a recession in 2026?

Market consensus20%
+0.0pp 24h change
AI Oracle avg 17% -2.5pp
Resolves in 8mo · Total volume $26.3k · 0 participants · 1 venues tracked

Probability history

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AI Oracle

Frontier model forecasts

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GPT-5
OpenAI
21%+1.5pp

Fed easing and fiscal support make two straight negative 2026 quarters unlikely.

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Grok 4
xAI
15%-4.5pp

Crowd anchoring on full-year recession odds, ignoring that 2025 passed clean and Q1 2026 shows no red flags yet.

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Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic
15%-4.5pp

Base rate ~15-20% for recession onset in a given year. No 2025 contraction; 2026 needs Q1+Q2 both negative.

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Cross-venue prices

VenueYesNo24h VolumeLiquidityTrade →
Kalshi
14.5%85.5%$26.3k$0open

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Resolution criteria

If there are two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth in 2025 or 2026, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, then the market resolves to Yes.

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Prediction.Markets computes consensus by volume-weighted aggregation across Kalshi, Polymarket, and Limitless. Outlier venues are flagged when their price deviates more than 2σ from the weighted mean. AI Oracle entries are independently sampled from 3 frontier models on a daily cadence. Full methodology →