It's unsurprisingly a bit more complex than that, but yes. The mechanism is something like general price level increase accelerates (inflation overshoots the t

It's unsurprisingly a bit more complex than that, but yes. The mechanism is something like general price level increase accelerates (inflation overshoots the target) -> central banks act to cool the economy (they conduct open market operations to remove liquidity, increase various knobs like interest-paid-on-reserves, basically the opposite of "quantitative easing") -> this has a knock on effect on corporate and governmental bond auctions -> bond interest rates go up but this is a "closed loop" because the end result is that "inflation creeps back down to/below target level", and then bond yields go back to where they were and it seems that's mostly a function of the appetite for safe assets. of course this might all be irrelevant if central banks basically switch to "nominal GDP targeting" and one more small but very interesting piece in this puzzle (the jargon is not important, the "bonds stay on the balance sheet, so they are inconvenient" part is): https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2023/02/understanding-the-inconvenience-of-u-s-treasury-bonds/ https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2023/02/unders...