Max Keiser
American-Salvadoran broadcaster
Timothy Maxwell "Max" Keiser is an American-Salvadoran broadcaster and filmmaker. He produced and appeared in the TV series People & Power on the Al-Jazeera English network from 2006, and became known for hosting Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT that featured heterodox economics theories, from September 2009 to February 2022. He presented a season of The Oracle with Max Keiser on BBC World News in 2009. Until November 2012, Keiser anchored On the Edge, a program of news and analysis hosted by Iran's Press TV.
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. He lived in London from about 2011 for some years.
As of 2023 he was serving as a personal advisor on matters related to cryptocurrency to Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele in connection to Bitcoin investment in the country, and Stacy claims to be employed by the government of El Salvador.
Early life and education
Timothy Maxwell "Max" Keiser was born in New Rochelle, New York, United States. He grew up in Westchester County, New York.
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.
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