Leo Melamed
Escape to the Futures
(Sprache: Englisch)
He is one of the most powerful figures in the world of finance - a visionary who pioneered the modern futures industry and launched the International Monetary Market (IMM). A Holocaust survivor, Leo Melamed had barely begun the first grade in 1939 when he...
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He is one of the most powerful figures in the world of finance - a visionary who pioneered the modern futures industry and launched the International Monetary Market (IMM). A Holocaust survivor, Leo Melamed had barely begun the first grade in 1939 when he and his parents fled their native Poland one step ahead of the oncoming Nazi juggernaut. Crossing Siberia en route to a brief stay in Japan - just months before Pearl Harbor - the family arrived in the United States to begin life anew. They settled in Chicago, where young Leo became a product of the inner city and embraced his new country and its culture. Seeking part-time employment while attending law school, Leo Melamed answered a classified ad that would change his life. Hired by what he presumed was a law firm named Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Bean, he found himself on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. "I was Alice stepping through the Looking Glass into a world of not just one Mad Hatter, but hundreds. The shouting among the traders, the movement of their bodies and hands, captivated me like nothing before ... there was a life force on that floor that was magical and exciting, and though I didn't understand what was going on, I wanted to be a part of it". Leo Melamed became much more than just a part of it. From modest beginnings as a pork belly trader, he led the Chicago Merc for the next quarter of a century, introducing finance to an industry that was the exclusive domain of agriculture. As his reputation as a financial genius grew, so did the tales of his larger-than-life personality. In Leo Melamed: Escape to the Futures, you'll meet the man behind the legend.
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Leo Melamed, Melamed
LEO MELAMED is Chairman Emeritus of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Under his twenty-five years of leadership, the CME was transformed into the world's foremost financial futures marketplace. He is recognized as the founder of the concept of financial futures, and introduced foreign currency futures in 1972 with the launching of the International Monetary Market (IMM). Melamed is an active futures trader and Chairman and CEO of Sakura Dellsher, Inc., a global futures organization. Melamed is a council member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Senior Fellow of the International Association of Financial Engineers. He lives in Chicago. BOB TAMARKIN is an award-winning journalist who has been an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. He has also been a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and Senior Editor and Midwest Bureau Chief for Forbes. He is the author of The New Gatsbys and The Merc, and his work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, among many other publications. Mr. Tamarkin lives in Chicago.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Leo Melamed , Melamed
- 488 Seiten, Maße: 15,7 x 23,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 0471112151
- ISBN-13: 9780471112150
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.04.1996
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Englisch
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