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In short, supply/demand, but I guess thats not super helpful.

As a really crude start, you can say the N-year treasury yield is roughly the 'average' expected risk-free interest rate over the next N years. This is the expectations hypothesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectations_hypothesis).

In reality, this works really well on the short end (so they say the Fed controls the short end by controlling the Fed Funds rate), but as you go further out the curve (10y+) it gets more influenced by inflation (or nominal GDP), 'term premium' (as a catch-all phrase for all the stuff not easily explained by the expectations hypothesis), and idiosyncratic supply demand. Ex: Insurance companies and pensions with long-dated liabilities (they owe more PV in liabilities if rates go down) so they buy long-dated bonds (to make money to offset this if rates go down). Reason being, as you go further out the curve, even if you know with certainty what short-term interest rates will be over N years, you are taking on far too much duration/market risk to make that sort of trade pragmatic, so other factors tend to dominate.

There is also other idiosyncratic supply demand- ex: if people panic, they tend sell US stocks to buy long-dated US treasuries (because these have more risk than short-dated bonds).

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