【現代價格戰啟示錄 揪出市場看不見的手】 作家暨導演魯珀特・羅素以紀錄片《廿一世紀狼胎領袖》嶄露頭角，其鏡頭關注全球政經局勢，探討當代現象。羅素認為，在敘利亞內戰、移民歐洲潮、伊拉克斬首行動等諸多歷史事件中，川普勝選與英國脫歐影響最為深遠。他踏查權五大洲，追蹤民生必需品神祕的價格波動，闡明紐約和倫敦的銀行和對沖基金正是價格混亂的推手，導致二〇一〇年代的亂象。 For Rupert Russell, the shock of the Trump-Brexit victories was only the latest in a decade full of them: the unstoppable war in Syria, huge migrant flows into Europe, beheadings in Iraq, children caged at the US border. In Price Wars he sets out on an improbable journey to investigate what caused the wave of chaos that consumed the world in the 2010s. Armed with a notebook, flak jacket and pink socks, Russell travels to modern apocalypses across five continents, embedding with separatist soldiers in the trenches of Eastern Ukraine, gangs of street kids battling over garbage in Caracas, the UN bomb disposal squad in Iraq and cattle raiders in Northern Kenya. He traces the origins of these conflicts back to dramatic and mysterious swings in the prices of essential commodities. He meets with commodity speculators who describe the inner workings of these volatile markets, explaining how food prices can spike even in years of abundant harvests, causing bread riots and revolutions. Oil prices can surge on rumours, enriching and emboldening dictators and terrorists alike. These price shocks, and many others across the decade, triggered local disasters that became global catastrophes. It is chaotic prices, Russell learned, fuelled by banks and hedge funds in New York and London, that have toppled regimes and fractured the West. Price Wars is a page-turning chronicle of discovery and a ground-breaking expose of the power of price to devastate the world.