What's really behind the drop in long-term Treasury yields?

According to the minutes of late-April’s US FOMC meeting, “some market participants reportedly ... revised down their estimate of the average real federal funds rate over the longer term, reflecting in part changes in their assessments of long-run economic conditions.” While this may be so, unofficial Federal Reserve data would appear to suggest they are a minority.

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