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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Acclaim for Leo Melamed Escape to the Futures "A well-written, fascinating memoir of a remarkable man of many parts, who arrived in the United States at age 9, fleeing the Holocaust. Almost single-handedly, he transformed a minor commodity exchange into the leading futures market in the world. His influence was and remains worldwide." --Milton Friedman Senior Research Fellow Hoover Institution, Stanford University "There are only a few people who have revolutionized big portions of the business world. Warren Buffett did it in investing, Bill Gates in software. Leo Melamed, author of this book, is in that same league. He truly revolutionized futures trading in the United States, and in the world. This book tells how." --Ambassador Clayton Yeutter Past President of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Former U.S. Trade Representative "A grizzled old Merc trader once assured me that nobody ever lost by being long on Leo. Why that's so, this endlessly fascinating personal history makes clear. It shows how an immigrant boy, after surviving unimaginable horrors, drew on the 'elan, combativeness, and sophisticated conviction' learned from his equally remarkable father to build the CME and to lay the foundations of the modern, Chicago-based, financial services industry." -- Merton H. Miller 1990 Nobel Laureate Emeritus Professor University of Chicago Graduate School of Business "Leo tells it all. To say there would not have been a financial futures industry without Leo is probably only a slight exaggeration!!!" -- John Damgard President Futures Industry Association "Escape to the Futures tells the remarkable story of a young boy's escape from the Nazis and the impact of his life on the financial markets of the world. It also serves as yet another poignant reminder of the immeasurable losses --in the arts, sciences, professions, and everyday life--humanity suffered because of the Holocaust." -- Benjamin Meed President American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors 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). Yet, Leo Melamed was not born to wealth and influence. His is an extraordinary rags-to-riches tale of intelligence, drive, savvy, timing, and the overpowering force of a uniquely charismatic personality. Now the inside story of the remarkable life and career of Leo Melamed is revealed in this long-awaited autobiography. 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-...
