UID:
almafu_9959328123002883
Format:
1 online resource (xxi, 343 pages)
ISBN:
9781119197713
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1119197716
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9780470530801
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0470530804
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1282369296
,
9781282369290
Content:
For Crying Out Loud. From Open Outcry to the Electronic Screen. Leo Melamed. Foreword by Craig Donohue, CEO, CME Group. In Praise of. For Crying Out Loud. "Endowed with strong parents and a bit of luck, Leo Melamed has made a remarkable escape from Nazi occupied Poland to building one of the pinnacles of global finance. Over four decades and more, he was the leading force in bringing his beloved 'Merc' from obscure trading pits for butter and eggs, and pork bellies to a model of electronic efficiency, handling billions of financial contracts, almost instantaneously with certainty of execu.
Note:
Countdown to liftoff -- Globex : the fundamental difference -- EOA : the rocket propellant fuel -- E-Mini : springboard for the Mexico success -- Strategic commotion : planning the journey -- Global competition : the ultimate enforcer -- Demutualization : stepping on the moon -- Dot-coming : the false paradise -- Cabal : boardroom intrigue -- Baptism by fire : sweet victory -- Tomorrow's technological tidal wave -- Wakeup call -- Reminiscences of a refugee -- The need for futures markets in an emerging world economy -- Panel on the stock market crash of 1987 -- Preface to the Japanese translation of Escape to the futures -- Pain, progress, and promise : reflections on the twentieth century -- There are no Jews in Bialystok -- Chicago futures in the twenty-first century -- Merton Miller, 1923-2000 -- Buy a call on the snake : traditional exchanges in an e-commerce world -- Transformation of futures exchanges -- Our middle name -- CME Center for Innovation -- Remarks at the celebration of the Chinese-language publication of Escape to the futures -- Knowledge tag -- CME Fred Arditti award -- Math is in our futures -- If it's good enough for Milton -- Education : the only thing that never fails -- The boy of steel -- CME : the house that innovation built -- The law of selective gravity -- The gray swan.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Melamed, Leo. For crying out loud. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2009 ISBN 9780470229439
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0470229438
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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History.
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119197713
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URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119197713
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