Max Keiser

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 fringe economic 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. 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.

Early career

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, across from Hurleys), at a time when it "required no talent whatsoever to make gobsmacking amounts of money".