Animated cover illustration for the Bloomberg Businessweek magazine.

Bloomberg writes about the cover story:
A surge in interest rates has popped the bubbles in especially speculative corners of financial markets. But a major side effect of the new financial regime is a focus on an investment many of us may have forgotten to view as an investment at all: boring old bank savings accounts, some of which now pay yields of more than 4% after years of offering rates that round down to zero.