年輕的革命者（我們曾經或者正如此自栩）總是與世界扞格不入，與主流價值拉扯對抗偶爾覺得疲憊困頓，但幸好避風港就在不遠處，真好。僅獻給曾一同歡聚於交誼廳一隅的罕見後現代文青＼憤青們（他者如是說）與我們記憶中總是燈火通明、笑語不斷的實齋交誼廳，There is a light that never goes out，我們都喜愛的英國樂隊The Smiths這樣唱著。說我愛你們太矯情，但是啊，如果沒有你們、沒有學院，真不知道我的大學生涯會失色多少。
This article is a speech mainly about volatility of financial markets, which was gave by Robert Engle, a professor of finance at the Stern School of Business of NYU and also the winner of the Nobel Prize for volatility research in 2003. He uses lots of graphs to demonstrate his ideas and conclusions to us. It’s a great video which not only gives us a global perspective on volatility but also lets us have a brief understanding about how a professor of finance gives speeches to his students in America. It’s very different from our experiences in Taiwan.
It seems like most of students studying finance have strong interests in discussing how to use all kinds of financial instruments to make money, but what interests me the most is how volatilities change across different countries. Volatility is such an important index which points out a country’s financial condition and the distribution of news is sound or not.
As a student studying finance in Taiwan, a relative democratic country which is also highly influenced by Capitalism, we should not only focus on what we can gain through financial markets but also think about what we can do for the Asian financial market in such an awful period. Gradually improve our ability in financial event analyzing and keep absorbing information in different aspects is important.
Werner Herzog善於捕捉那些關於被社會遺棄、任其自生自滅的邊緣人身影：《侏儒流氓》裡的暴力侏儒、《陸上行舟》裡的音樂偏執狂、《灰熊人》裡希冀與大灰熊交流的精神病患者。《史楚錫流浪記》也不例外，盡述了三名德國流亡者在美國的命運與最終在唯利是圖的社會裡難以找到自身位置的悲劇：街頭賣藝的Bruno與妓女Eva、年逾花甲的鄰居Scheitz在德國柏林飽受惡霸欺凌，遙遠的美國提供他們一個烏托邦式的幻想，於是三個人便一同去了美國。Bruno在修車廠裡謀得一職、Eva當上餐廳服務生，老鄰居則開始進行科學研究。一開始看似前途似錦，最後仍發現理想國的真實生活日漸頹敗：無法償還貸款的三人再度失去了房屋，解放後的妓女重操舊業，年邁的Scheitz在夥同Bruno搶劫銀行後鋃鐺入獄，而Bruno則在如童話般的廢棄遊樂園纜車上開槍結束自己的生命。人們如此脆弱，不管是處在剛從納粹世界被解放的西德抑或是資本主義下自由民主的美國，渺小的人類一轉眼就消逝在大環境的洪流之下。
