imagine, that for all that time there is high inflation and you were forced to constantly increase the interest on the money loaned

### MintyCandyFresh:
This story is a little more complicated than what it seems. You can't really attribute the rising interest rates to just high inflation.

We are coming out of a global pandemic that essentially froze the world economy. During that time, government entities including the US Federal Reserve had to step in and help prop up the economy. One of the ways they did this was to lower interest rates to basically 0% and start buying up financial assets (this is called Quantitative Easing or QE). The goal was to encourage lending and investing to help stimulate the economy. The graph below shows the impact that the Federal Reserve's QE program had on the money supply. As you can see, there was a massive increase in the money supply during the Covid pandemic.

This is the reason why we have seen such high inflation since the pandemic. There is simply too much money chasing too few goods.

The Federal Reserve is now in the process of reversing what it did during the pandemic. It is raising interest rates and ending its QE program. The goal is to decrease the money supply and help bring inflation back down to its 2% target.

Here is a good article that explains this in more detail: [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/business/inflation-federal-reserve.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/business/inflation-federal-reserve.html)

This is a very high level summary of course, and there are many other factors at play here. But hopefully this gives you a bit better understanding of why interest rates are rising.

### IdealChess:
Exactly. It's not just a rise in interest rates. The longer-term bond yields have been rising too. There are several reasons, including: 1) Governments borrowed more during Covid to pay for various subsidies, furloughs, and benefits, and now they need to sell more bonds to pay for the repayment and interest on these debts. 2) Investors are selling their bonds because they want to invest in other areas. There is a fear that more inflation and more rate rises will lead to lower bond prices, so some investors are selling them now to avoid future losses.

### starlord357:
Add on to the two reasons above. A higher interest rate environment in the future means that there Read from source...

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