ManifoldPlay moneyMacro / FedDevelopingUpdated 11m ago

Will real US GDP per capita grow by at least 15% within a single year by the end of 2033?

As of Nov 1, 2026, 7:30 PM ET, Manifold priced this market at 29.0% (little changed over 24 hours). It had 400 mana traded in the past 24 hours and 1K mana of pool liquidity. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
29.0%
Little changed over 24 hours

Play-money market (mana, not dollars) — thin market where small orders can move the price, traded by a small group of accounts.

Price historyManifold

Source: ProbCast snapshots (Manifold)

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Moderate

Consensus stability

Stable

Contract clarity

High

Can you trust this price?

Two different questions: how hard the price is to move, and whose trading set it.

Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

Thin

Pool liquidity

1K mana

Bid-ask spread

n/a

automated market maker

24h volume

400 mana

Total volume

8.3K mana

Play money: depth is in mana, so it says nothing about real-money conviction.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

A few accounts
30%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

50

Trades

144

over 58 days

Largest order

3K mana

12.9K mana traded across these 144 trades (last 58 days).

A small group of accounts did most of the trading — neither one whale nor a broad crowd.

Recent trade activity$12.9K traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What this market actually measures

William MacAskill, along with two others, has accepted a bet "on explosive AI-driven growth" proposed by macroeconomist Ben Moll, with one other joining his side of the bet, offering 4:1 odds against (implying a 20% change of YES): [tweet]This market will resolve when their bet is resolved unless they somehow abandon the bet, in which case I will attempt to apply the specified resolution criteria, which are as follow…

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William MacAskill, along with two others, has accepted a bet "on explosive AI-driven growth" proposed by macroeconomist Ben Moll, with one other joining his side of the bet, offering 4:1 odds against (implying a 20% change of YES): [tweet]This market will resolve when their bet is resolved unless they somehow abandon the bet, in which case I will attempt to apply the specified resolution criteria, which are as follows: The fast-growth side wins if there is any quarter Q, up to and including 2033Q4, such that U.S. real GDP per capita in Q is at least 15% higher than the previous peak, defined as the highest quarterly real GDP per capita recorded in any quarter up to and including Q−4 (i.e., as of one year before Q). Otherwise the no-fast-growth side wins. Data series: the official BEA measure — "Real gross domestic product per capita," U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, NIPA Table 7.1 (series A939RX; quarterly, seasonally adjusted). "Real" means inflation-adjusted: nominal GDP deflated using the BEA's chain-type GDP price index (the GDP deflator), currently expressed in chained 2017 dollars. The series is currently available on FRED: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA Peak-relative measurement: growth is measured relative to the previous all-time peak, not merely the year-earlier quarter. This excludes "recession rebound" base effects (e.g., a post-Covid-style bounce-back after a deep recession would not count). Per capita = humans only: the population denominator counts human beings only. If official statistics ever count AI systems in the population, the bet is nevertheless resolved using the human population. When the bet settles: the fast-growth side wins — and the bet settles immediately — as soon as any BEA release shows a qualifying fast-growth quarter (e.g., if 2030Q2 data meets the condition, the bet settles in 2030). If no qualifying quarter has appeared by the time BEA first publishes its 2033Q4 estimate (expected early 2034), the no-fast-growth side wins at that point. Close calls: if a release shows peak-relative growth between 14.5% and 15.5%, the bet instead relies on BEA's third estimate for that quarter — including for the final 2033Q4 determination. Once settled, later data revisions do not reopen the bet. If the result is disputed or ambiguous (e.g. BEA abandons the series) the bet will be resolved by the decision of a neutral third-party arbiter to be chosen later. Zvi's house rules apply: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ge3Jf5Hnon8wq4xqT/zvi-s-manifold-markets-house-rules

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesDecember 31, 2033 at 6:59 PM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Nov 1, 7:41 PM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±15 pts.

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What's happening

low classifier confidence
Thin market

Thin book and/or wide spread. Small orders can move this price disproportionately, so any single print is noisy and easily overread.

  • Thin book and/or wide spread.

Read with caution —Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
23Low
Where the price path tends to go next417 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet99%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~4w
PredictabilityStable

Secondary read: leaning toward Stale price.

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Change (pts)1H0.06H0.024H0.07D0.0