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For Crying Out Loud: From Open Outcry to the Electronic Screen
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Part I: Battling the Tyranny of the Status Quo
Chapter 1: Countdown to Liftoff
Chapter 2: Globex: The Fundamental Difference
Chapter 3: EOA: The Rocket Propellant Fuel
Chapter 4: E-Mini: Springboard for the Merc’s Success
Chapter 5: Strategic Commotion: Planning the Journey
Chapter 6: Global Competition: The Ultimate Enforcer
Chapter 7: Demutualization: Stepping on the Moon
Chapter 8: Dot-Coming: The False Paradise
Chapter 9: Cabal: Boardroom Intrigue
Chapter 10: Baptism by Fire: Sweet Victory
Postscript: Globex Time Line
Part II: Messenger from the Futures
Chapter 11: Tomorrow’s Technological Tidal Wave
Chapter 12: Wakeup Call
Chapter 13: Reminiscences of a Refugee
Chapter 14: The Need for Futures Markets in an Emerging World Economy
Chapter 15: Panel on the Stock Market Crash of 1987
Chapter 16: Preface to the Japanese Translation of Escape to the Futures
Chapter 17: Pain, Progress, and Promise: Reflections on the Twentieth Century
Chapter 18: There Are No Jews in Bialystok
Chapter 19: Chicago Futures in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 20: Merton Miller, 1923–2000
Chapter 21: Buy a Call on the Snake: Traditional Exchanges in an E-Commerce World
Chapter 22: Transformation of Futures Exchanges
Chapter 23: Our Middle Name
Chapter 24: CME Center for Innovation
Chapter 25: Remarks at the Celebration of the Chinese-Language Publication of Escape to the Futures
Chapter 26: Knowledge Tag
Chapter 27: CME Fred Arditti Award
Chapter 28: Math Is in Our Futures
Chapter 29: If It’s Good Enough for Milton
Chapter 30: Education: The Only Thing that Never Fails
Chapter 31: The Boy of Steel
Chapter 32: CME: The House that Innovation Built
Chapter 33: The Law of Selective Gravity
Chapter 34: The Gray Swan
Part III: Appendixes
Appendix 1A: The Third Milestone
Appendix 1B: Letter to Milton Friedman
Appendix 3A: It’s Time for a Change
Appendix 3B: A Brief Who’s Who of the Members of the Equity Owners’ Association
Appendix 3C: A Merged Future for Two Exchanges?
Appendix 3D: The Merc Fights for Self-Regulation
Appendix 3E: Dear Equity Owner
Appendix 3F: Equity Owners’ Association Status Report
Appendix 3G: Creating a New Alliance—Why Here and Now?
Appendix 4A: Chairman Emeritus Remarks
Appendix 4B: Open Letter to the Members of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Appendix 4C: A Return to the Table
Appendix 8A: James J. McNulty Joins CME as President and Chief Executive Officer
Appendix 8B: CME Names McNulty New President and CEO
Appendix 9A: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. Board Elects Officers
Appendix 9B: Letter to Audit Committee from Scott Gordon
19A: Futures’ Future Isn’t in Chicago
Notes
About the Author
Index
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