Wow. Please dig deeper. EU/US desperately needed depressed natural resource prices along with depressed interest rates to recover from their two trillion $ 2007 sub prime mortgage write-off. After ten years of manipulation US/EU are still in trouble. Depressed natural resource pricing has cost Canada,Russia, OPEC trillions of $ yearly. The voting masses in EU/US are having a party at our expense.  Bill Clinton's dream of providing home ownership as the financial cornerstone for every American family via sub prime mortgages was a classic socialistic disaster for all of us. EU/US government manipulation has everything to do with natural resource pricing.