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Recent

High Frequency Cheetahs
by Leo Melamed (01/04/2012)

The Dynamism of Innovation
Remarks by Leo Melamed presented at the Beijing Central Business District Alliance Summit in Beijing, China (09/15/2011)

Educational

Leo Melamed's remarks at the 2010 CME Group Global Leadership Conference introducing Dr. David Ferrucci the winner of this year's CME Group Fred Arditti Innovation Award. October 19, 2010.
Opening remarks by Leo Melamed, CME Group chairman emeritus, at the CATO Institute biennial celebration of The Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty. Washington DC, May 13, 2010
The Law of Selective Gravity - Vanderbilt University (10/16/2008)
Innovation Award Honoring Michael Bloomberg (04/23/2008)
Derivatives, Defined, Described and Distinguished (03/13/2008)
Hebrew University Scopus Award (06/18/2007)
If It's Good Enough for Milton (01/29/2007)
Math Is In Our Futures (09/21/2006)
Innovation Award Honoring Leo Melamed (04/20/2006)
Here's Looking at You Kid (12/16/2005)
Knowledge Tag
(06/12/2005)
Commencement Address - Loyola University Chicago (05/13/2000)
Futures, Derivatives and Public Policy Roundtable Program (02/25-26/1999)
Commencement Address - John Marshall Law School (6/7/98)

Futures & Derivatives in an Emerging Economy (Argentina) (10/15/1997)
Doomed Diplomacy (11/14/1995)
Derivatives: Not a Four Letter Word (02/15/1995)
Our American Free Markets (06/17/1991)
Chicken Little Revisited (February 1988)
Call to Arms (09/30/1986)
What Joseph Wrought (Spring 1981)
The Development of Financial Futures in the United States (10/01/1980)

Sleazy Speculator (11/27/1974)
Psychology of a Successful Trader (10/10/1970)
Art of Futures Trading (11/10/1969)
Be a Lover, Not a Fighter (03/20/1969)

Evolution of Financial Futures

In the 21st Century - The Future of Futures (03/14/2006)
Chicago as a Financial Center in the Twenty First Century (June 2004)
Futures Exchanges in a Changed World Order (10/26/2002)
Transformation of Futures Exchanges
(01/2002)
Tomorrow's Financial Markets (03/17/2000)
Wake Up Call (11/09/1995)
Stages in the Evolution of an Exchange (09/11-14/1995)

Derivatives: Risk and Reward (Nov/Dec 1994)
In Defense of Derivatives (03/07/1994)
Pacific Rim (October 1991)
Global 24-Hour Risk Management (09/12/1991)
Futures: Then and Now ((January 1991)
Need for Risk Management (05/30/1990)
Third Milestone (1988 Annual Report)
Embracing Reality (1987 Annual Report)
Necessity
(11/16/1982)
A Critique of Automation of the Transaction Process (1977)

Legislation and Regulation

Statement on Oil Speculation and Politics (06/25/2008)
Statement Pertaining to the Treasury Department’s Blueprint on Regulatory Reform (03/31/2008)

Testimony before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Hearing Regarding CEA Re-Authorization - United States Senate (09/23/1999)
Fixed Exchange Rate Foolishness 04/24/1986)
Futures, the Coveted Scapegoat (December 1985)
Fed Study on Futures and Options (12/21/1985)
National Futures Association (1982)
Pioneerism (08/13/1975)
H.R. 131131 and the Birth of the CFTC ((05/14/1974)

Foreign Jurisdictions

A Rare and Precious Bird
Remarks by Leo Melamed presented at the International Finance Forum 2010 in Beijing, China (10/09/2010)

The Uncertainty Principle - III
Remarks by Leo Melamed presented at the International Seminar on Futures Market Regulation in Beijing, China (08/05/2010)

An Historic Event
Remarks by Leo Melamed presented at the celebration launching the CFFEX in Shanghai, China (04/15/2010)
CME Group Chairman Emeritus Melamed to Attend China Financial Futures Exchange CSI 300 Index Futures Launch April 15, 2010
"U.S. expert calls China's index futures launch historic" press report from the Xinhua News Agency April 8, 2010
Don't Blame the Pencil - Remarks by Leo Melamed presented at the International Finance Forum in Beijing, China (11/15/2009)
The Gray Swan - Remarks by Leo Melamed at Peking University - Beijing, China (04/12/2009)
Remarks by Leo Melamed presented at the 20th Anniversary
of the Nikkei 225 Futures Market Symposium in Osaka
(09/02/2008)
Interesting Times, SMX (07/09/2008)
Derivatives Dawn in China (10/24/2006)

Author's Note on the Chinese Translation of Melamed on Markets (2005)

Preface to the Chinese Translation of Economics of Futures (2003)
The Need for Futures Markets in an Emerging World Economy
(16-17 April, 1998)
Preface to the Japanese Translation of Escape to the Futures (1997)

Downsizing of Risk (04/25/1995)
Protectionism (04/08/1992)
Futures in the New World Order ((05/23/1991)
Free Markets in Moscow (11/01/1990)
Free Market Victory (11/08/1990)
Shape of Things to Come (11/10-11/1988)
Homecoming (09/02/1988)
LIFFE ((09/14-15/1982)

Historical

Statement on the CME-CBOT Merger (10/17/2006)
Birth and Development of Financial Futures (04/25/1996)
Globex ((1989)
Metamorphosis of Futures and Options (11/10/1985)
The International Monetary Market of the CME (--/--/19--)
Chicago's Future in Futures (11/07/1973)
A Futures Market in Currency (04/19/1972)

1987 Stock Market Crash

Jaws of Victory (11/13/1989)
Good Old Days (01/26/1989)
Quintessential Lessons (07/22/1988)
Excerpts from Testimony, 1987 Stock Market Crash (10/29/1997)

Peering into the Future

Futures Markets for China at the Dawn of the 21st Century (09/23/2003)
Our Middle Name (02/15/2002)
Derivatives Exchanges in a Changed World Order (November 2001)
Buy a Call on the Snake (07/02/2001)
Futures Markets in an E-Commerce World (10/15-17/2000)
Chicago Futures in the Twenty First Century (05/15/2000)
Futures Markets in the Digital Century (05/11-12/1999)
Derivatives Markets (10/27/1993)
Tomorrow's Technological Tidal Wave (11/07/1991)
Financial Markets in the Coming Decade (November 1990)
Responding to Globalization (1987)
Memory (11/11/1986)
The Future of Futures (10/28/1983)

Noteworthy Essays

Publication of Russian and Chinese Translations of Melamed Memoirs Announced. (04/29/2010
Holocaust Remembrance - The Boy of Steel (11/03/2008)
The Rest of the Story (01/18/2005)
Chinese Translation of Escape to the Futures (05/28/2004)
There Are No Jews In Bialystok (08/2000)
CME Center of Innovation (06/19/2003)
Tenth Anniversary of Globex (06/21/2002)
IMM 30th Anniversary Celebration ((05/14/2002)
A Common Mission (06/15/2001)
Merton Miller Memorial Service (10/14/2000)
Reflections on the Twentieth Century (10/22/1998)
Lee A. Freeman Memorial Service (04/22/1995)
IMM Tenth Anniversary Celebration (06/04/1982)

Odds & Ends

December 2010 issue of Chicago Magazine.
Leo Melamed is in fourth place among a list of "40 Visionaries" during the past 40 years. "Forty Chicago Visionaries".
The Scopus Award Dinner For Terry Duffy Introduction of George F. Will by Leo Melamed March 11, 2010
Chicago Magazine 'Best Dinner Party' (August 2008).
Introduction of Mimi Sheraton at the Food as Roots Award Celebration (February 28, 2006)
US Holocaust Memorial Museum Gathering
Vladka, An Introduction (1999)
Message from Above, Yom Kippur (1997)
Reminiscences of a Refugee - November 1, 1996
Who Were We - presented at the 10th Anniversary of the IMM - (1972)
Ode to Price Controls (1971)

 

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