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Max Keiser is the host of "The Oracle with Max Keiser" for BBC World airing from 9 January 2009.

Max has also presented news features for Aljazeera English. He is a frequent guest on Aljazeera English and France 24 and a blogger for both the Huffington Post and Intrade.

Max Keiser is the creator, co-founder and former CEO of HSX Holdings/Hollywood Stock Exchange, later sold to Cantor Fitzgerald. He is also the co-founder of HSX films that went on to make almost a dozen films, including "Mixed Signals," "Six-String Samurai," "Dancer, Texas Pop. 81," and "girl." The company was then sold to Ignite Entertainment/Lionsgate.

Max designed, scoped, and built the Hollywood Stock Exchange with Michael Burns. Max was awarded a US patent (number 5950176) for the 'Virtual Specialist Technology" on which the Hollywood Stock Exchange operates. He created virtual securities; MovieStocks, and StarBonds and created the first fully convertible virtual currency, the Hollywood Dollar. The Hollywood Stock Exchange remains the highest volume stock exchange in the world.

Max 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.

In his role as technology entrepreneur, Max recently created Kinooga, a Web 3.0 social finance site for indie films.

As a presenter, Max co-hosts "The Truth About Markets" on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London; produces documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera's "People & Power" series and written a column in the Ecologist magazine covering markets and the ecology.

Max Keiser has been involved with markets and finance for 25 years. He started his career as a stock broker on Wall Street after graduating from NYU.