Will the United States enter a recession by the end of 2026? [ resolves 2027-01-31 (209D) ]
US recession by end of 2026?
polymarket: [A] multiple sources, tie-break·objective outcome methodology ›
markets · by resolution date · marks: daily snapshot
polymarket 1 market
| market | resolves | P(YES) | vol (24h) | vol (cum) | RCG | venue id | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US recession by end of 2026 | 2027-01-31 | 12.0% | $3.1K | $1.55M | A | 0xfdc73f…105d |
resolution architecture
| venue | proposer | source | citation | arbitration | class | analyst notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| polymarket | Whitelisted Proposers | not provided | link | Optimistic Oracle (UMA) | Other | — |
verbatim rules
polymarket
This market will resolve to “Yes” if either of the following conditions is met:
1. The seasonally adjusted annualized percent change in quarterly U.S. real GDP from the previous quarter is less than 0.0 for two consecutive quarters between Q2 2025 and Q4 2026 (inclusive), as reported by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
2. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) publicly announces that a recession has occurred in the United States, at any point during 2025 or 2026, with the announcement made by the time the BEA releases the advance estimate for Q4 2026.
Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No".
Note that advance estimates will be considered. For example, if upon release, the advance estimate for Q3 2025 was negative, and the Q2 2025's most recent, up-to-date estimate was also negative, this market would resolve to "Yes". If on December 31, 2026 the latest estimate for quarterly GDP in Q3 2025 was negative, this market will stay open until the Advance estimate of Q4 2026 is published, at which point it will resolve to "Yes" if Q4 2026 was negative or if the NBER declares a recession by then.
The resolution source will be the official announcements from the NBER and the BEA’s estimate of seasonally adjusted annualized percent change in quarterly US real GDP from previous quarters as released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gross-domestic-product
platform source field
polymarket.description → https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gross-domestic-product sources (3) · stated precedence rule
- bea.gov venue-listed
- Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) from rules text · editorial
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) from rules text · editorial
recent wire items
- Recession by year-end consensus holds at deep discount Polymarket 11%
- The Polymarket contract prices only 11% probability on a US recession declared by end of 2026, resolved via UMA oracle.
- RSM's easing-supply-shock narrative aligns with the market's low recession pricing; the two readings reinforce rather than contradict each other.
- Kalshi's parallel contract (CM-EVT-L7017DJDX1) also sits at 11% via Bureau of Economic Analysis, showing cross-venue consensus with no gap to arbitrage.
- Resolves via UMA oracle using BEA GDP data; back-to-back negative real GDP quarters is the conventional trigger, making the Q3-Q4 2026 prints the key datapoints.
programmatic access · four surfaces, same payload
One canonical record at every surface — embedded JSON-LD, REST, MCP, and /llms.txt.
| HTML | browsers, AI grounded search, crawlers (embedded JSON-LD @type: Dataset) | https://clearmarket.fyi/events/us-recession-by-end-of-2026/ |
| JSON | REST API for developers | https://api.clearmarket.fyi/v1/events/us-recession-by-end-of-2026 |
| MCP | agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue) | clearmarket.get_event("us-recession-by-end-of-2026") |
| AGENT | AI crawler discovery index | /llms.txt |
Snapshot 2026-07-06. Venue data via Kalshi + Polymarket APIs. Editorial fields (tags, editorial_notes) are ClearMarket-drafted with AI assistance under editorial review. Derived fields (venues_covered, resolution_clarity_grade, rcg_score) computed at serve time. Full per-field map in the JSON record under field_provenance.
raw JSON record · same payload returned by REST endpoint {
"event_id": "CM-EVT-943Z5Y3NP4",
"slug": "us-recession-by-end-of-2026",
"question": "Will the United States enter a recession by the end of 2026?",
"category": "economics",
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"economic-contraction",
"us-economy",
"macro-indicators",
"2026-resolution",
"gdp-growth"
],
"venues_covered": [
"polymarket"
],
"market_count": 1,
"cumulative_volume_usd": 1552921,
"resolution_clarity_grade": "A",
"rcg_score": 90,
"rcg_caps": [],
"resolution_source": null,
"resolution_source_url": "https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gross-domestic-product",
"source_status": "platform_named",
"source_of_record": null,
"resolution_source_list": [
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},
{
"name": "Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)",
"url": null,
"provenance": "clearmarket_editorial"
},
{
"name": "National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)",
"url": null,
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}
],
"arbitration_model": "uma_oracle",
"proposer_model": "managed_whitelist",
"field_provenance": {
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},
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},
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"method": "rcg_v2_7factor"
},
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}
}
}