Market vs. Bernanke
'It has been a reliable fact of life for investors, corporations and ordinary borrowers: interest rates, for the most part, keep heading lower.'But all of that may be about to change. For prospective homeowners, the cost of mortgages has been going up in recent weeks. Governments are also facing the prospect of higher borrowing costs down the road, and they are projecting increases to their debt burdens. Savers with money in bank accounts, on the other hand, have the prospect of finally earning more than a pittance on their deposits. [...]'Over the last few months [...] investors and banks have been demanding higher payments for their loans, pushing up interest rates and bond yields.'"I think you all should be ready, because rates are going to go up," Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, told a financial industry conference at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan on Tuesday.'As investors brace themselves for a new era of higher interest rates, global markets in bonds, currencies and stocks have experienced spasms of turmoil. On Tuesday, the catalyst for the market's volatility was disappointment over the Bank of Japan's decision not to take new steps to address rising bond yields. That heightened worries that other central banks – the Federal Reserve in particular – will soon pull back on pumping money into the financial system.'