About the Author | 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. |