Max Keiser
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Max Keiser in a London taxi (2007)
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Timothy Maxwell Keiser January 23, 1960 New Rochelle, New York, United States |
| Residence | London, England, UK |
| Education | New York University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | , People & Power, Karmabanque |
| Spouse(s) | Stacy Herbert |
| Website | maxkeiser |
Timothy Maxwell "Max" Keiser (born January 23, 1960) is an American broadcaster and film maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on Russian state media channel RT that features heterodox economics theories. Until November 2012, Keiser anchored On the Edge, a program of news and analysis hosted by Iran's Press TV. He hosted the New Year's Eve special The Keiser's Business Guide to 2010 for BBC Radio 5 Live. Keiser presented a season of The Oracle with Max Keiser on BBC World News. He produced and appeared in the TV series People & Power on the Al-Jazeera English network.
Alongside his wife Stacy Herbert, he co-hosts the weekly economics programme Double Down on Radio Sputnik, he presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London's Resonance FM, and writes for The Huffington Post. He currently lives in London.
Keiser grew up in Westchester County, New York. After studying theatre at New York University, he took a variety of jobs including stand-up comedy and on radio. He then took a part-time job as a stock broker in the 1980s at Paine Webber and Oppenheimer and Co. Inc. at their midtown office under David Tufts.
Keiser is the creator, co-founder, and former CEO of HSX Holdings/Hollywood Stock Exchange, later sold to Cantor Fitzgerald. Alongside Michael R. Burns, he co-invented the Virtual Specialist platform on which the Hollywood Stock Exchange operates. This technology allows traders to exchange virtual securities, such as "MovieStocks" and "StarBonds", with convertible virtual currency, the "Hollywood Dollar".
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