Max Keiser

Timothy Maxwell Keiser (born January 23, 1960) is an American-Salvadoran broadcaster and film maker.

He hosted Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT that featured heterodox economics theories.

After studying theatre at New York University, he took a variety of jobs in stand-up comedy and in radio, a part-time job as a stockbroker in the 1980s at Paine Webber, and at the midtown office of Oppenheimer and Co. Inc. 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".

In 1998 Digital Coast Reporter recognized Keiser as one of Los Angeles' top 50 internet executives for his work on this project.

Keiser presented Rumble at the Box Office for NBC's Access Hollywood.

He also produced and hosted the weekly talk show Buy, Sell, Hold for CBS radio's KLSX in Los Angeles, CA. He also presented The Truth About Markets on Resonance 104.4 FM in London, but the show is no longer listed on their website as of at least June 2022.

Keiser produced 10 short documentary films covering aspects of financial markets for Al Jazeera's series People & Power.

The films include Rigged Markets, Money Geyser, Death of the Dollar, Peaked, Extraordinary Antics, Savers vs Speculators, Banking On It, Private Finance or Public Swindle? and Focus on Locusts.

A pilot episode was produced for Al-Jazeera English titled The Oracle.

The show was developed into a series for BBC World News.

Keiser had presented a season of The Oracle with Max Keiser on BBC World News in 2009.

He produced and appeared in the TV series People & Power on the Al-Jazeera English network.

Alongside his wife Stacy Herbert, he co-hosted the weekly economics programme Double Down on Radio Sputnik, presented a weekly show about finance and markets on London's Resonance FM, and wrote for The Huffington Post.

The series first aired on January 9, 2009.

Keiser left the BBC after ten episodes.

On Twitter, he said he left because he was ordered not to mention Israel in any context.

A weekly half-hour financial commentary show that started in 2009 and broadcast on Press TV.

From September 2009 until February 2022, Keiser hosted The Keiser Report with financial news and analysis, on the RT network.

The 30-minute program is produced three times a week.

Stacy Herbert (Keiser's wife) was the co-host; she bantered with Keiser on headlines and commentary.

Most episodes are divided into two parts.

In the first half, Keiser and Herbert alternately discussed a current financial topic, commented on financial media reports, and provided commentary on the actions of bankers.

The second half featured a guest interview, either face-to-face in the studio or through video conferencing, conducted by Keiser.

He hosted the New Year's Eve special The Keiser's Business Guide to 2010 for BBC Radio 5 Live.

He lived in London from about 2011, but returned to the US in 2017.

He now serves as a personal advisor on matters related to cryptocurrency to President Bukele of El Salvador in connection to Bitfinex investment in the country, and Stacy claims to be employed by the government of El Salvador.

Keiser grew up in Westchester County, New York.

An episode broadcast in September 2011 featured an interview with comedian Roseanne Barr, who satirically stated that her solution to the financial crisis was to "bring back the guillotine".

The show's guests regularly included advocates for and entrepreneurs working in the cryptocurrency and blockchain fields.

The show ended in February 2022 after Keiser and Herbert resigned from RT and deleted previous pro-Russian statements in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Keiser has appeared as a financial pundit on a number of news networks.

Keiser called for a "fatwā" against Hank Paulson on Al Jazeera in response to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

In a later broadcast Keiser said, "Paulson stinks".

Keiser has advised investors to buy bitcoin and precious metals such as gold and silver, in order to undermine "the banksters".

Until November 2012, Keiser anchored On the Edge, a program of news and analysis hosted by Iran's Press TV.

In November 2012, he predicted that the UK pound was about to collapse.

Keiser founded the hedge fund Karmabanque, which sought to profit from any decline in equity value of companies that are susceptible to boycott from environmental groups.