When an economy grows out of a recession, normally the demand for bonds ______ and the supply of bonds ______, everything else held constant. Bonds have an inverse relationship to interest rates.When interest rates rise, bond prices usually fall, and vice-versa. An increase in the expected return on bonds causes the _____ bonds to shift and equilibrium interest rates to _____. A. demand for, rise B. supply of, fall As demand for bonds increases, so do bond prices and bondholder returns. The many different kinds of bonds. In a recession, when income and wealth are falling, the demand for bonds falls, i.e. , the demand curve shifts to the left. Learn about the relationship between bond prices and interest rates.