Economics

The Price of Money Is Going Up, and It’s Not Because of the Fed

A model devised by Bloomberg Economics that looks as far out as 2050 shows Treasury yields may stay as high as 6%.

Illustration: Vincent Kilbride for Bloomberg Businessweek

What’s the most important price in the global economy? The price of a barrel of crude? A microchip? Or maybe a Big Mac?

More important than any of these is the price of money. For more than three decades, it was falling. Now it’s going up.