Leo Melamed: Escape to the Futures

Author:   Leo Melamed ,  Bob Tamarkin
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
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9780471112150


Pages:   488
Publication Date:   02 July 1996
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Leo Melamed ,  Bob Tamarkin
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.851kg
ISBN:  

9780471112150


ISBN 10:   0471112151
Pages:   488
Publication Date:   02 July 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

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Partial table of contents: THE SIBERIAN EXPRESS. Peace and War. The Mission. Sugihara's Stand. The Chicago Connection. Law and Chaos. THE BEAUTY OF MARKETS. The Revolution. Into the Pits. By the Book. The Maverick Idea. The Feds Are Coming. THE FUTURE'S NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE. Acid Test. The Grand Design. Trading on the Run. Coming of Age. Back Across the Pacific. MACHINES, MARKETS, AND MINDS. GLOBEX. Black Monday. A Call from the White House. Epilogue: Wake Up Call. Index.

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LEO MELAMED is Chairman Emeritus of the Chicago MercantileExchange. Under his twenty-five years of leadership, the CME wastransformed into the world's foremost financial futuresmarketplace. He is recognized as the founder of the concept offinancial futures, and introduced foreign currency futures in 1972with the launching of the International Monetary Market (IMM).Melamed is an active futures trader and Chairman and CEO of SakuraDellsher, Inc., a global futures organization. Melamed is a councilmember of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a Director of theNational Bureau of Economic Research, and a Senior Fellow of theInternational Association of Financial Engineers. He lives inChicago. BOB TAMARKIN is an award-winning journalist who has been aninvestigative reporter and foreign correspondent for the ChicagoDaily News. He has also been a reporter for the Wall StreetJournal, and Senior Editor and Midwest Bureau Chief for Forbes. Heis the author of The New Gatsbys and The Merc, and his work hasappeared in the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, the Los AngelesTimes, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, among many otherpublications. Mr. Tamarkin lives in Chicago.

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