What’s really happening to US inflation expectations?

To what extent have recent declines in US bond market-based measures of inflation expectations been driven by changes in expectations for inflation? This is neither a conundrum nor as stupid a question as it might seem, since there is evidence that the declines have also been caused by other factors.

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