I want to report on something from the perspective of being here on the ground in Cairo. The revolution was definitely enabled by social networking sites. I find it difficult to understand the positions of those in the blogosphere who fail to see this point.

Starting in the mid...

Michael Moore: "The last thing I want to say is, we have something on our side of the fence that they don't have on the other side, and that's the popular culture."

No, 'we' don't...

The job of expanding and defending the public's domain is falling on the shoulders of a few hearty souls.

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks.org and Captain Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society are doing the job that government organizations and non-government organizations have failed to do: create...

Box office futures trading in America is dead. I took the position early that box office derivatives trading should be outlawed in the U.S. given the current history of market manipulation and insider trading abuses that have accelerated since the passage of the Commodity Futures Modernizatin Act (CFMA)...

To reduce debt, France has announced the sale of State assets.

Paradoxically, these sales will achieve the opposite effect and increase the overall indebtedness of France. Since any buyer of these assets will do so with borrowed money and the money they borrow will...

Since the global financial crisis started in earnest in 2008, there has been a debate raging in economic circles. Is the economy experiencing inflation or deflation?

The first consideration in solving this riddle is to agree on terms. Rising or falling prices at your local grocery store is 'price inflation'...

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) figured out that Cantor Fitzgerald's Box Office Futures contracts could devastate Hollywood when rogue traders were let loose to prey on their industry.

In response, they lobbied Washington to ban these contracts and won (even though the CFTC approved...

We look at the scandals of Prozac pilots and Chinese drywall; Timothy Sniveling Geithner, asking "what choice did the President have?", and finally, Jamie Dimon, the most dangerous man in America, complaining about the demonization of mega-banks. Max also talks to Rolling Stone journalist, Matt Taibbi, about "Looting Main Street."

Stacy and I were in Moscow last week recording the latest episode of the "Keiser Report" for Russia Today and we were interviewed on a local business radio show. Here's the transcript.

Here are two video clips from the interview.

While at Davos, George Soros claimed that gold was in the "ultimate bubble."

Davos 2010: George Soros warns gold is now the 'ultimate bubble'

What we now learn is that he was simultaneously doubling his position in gold.

Soros More...

In my interview with Steve Keen he spells out why continued asset price deflation means that the globe should not expect a recovery any time soon. He also talks about how you can't have inflation without wage-inflation, a point generally missed by most of the financial press.

Latvia should not pay back its loans to Sweden says renowned economist Dr. Michael Hudson. I interviewed him after reading his piece;

The Specter of Debt Revolt Is Haunting Europe: Why Iceland and Latvia Won't (and Can't) Pay for the Kleptocrats' Ripoffs

"World's major powers including China and Russia don't want to 'finance' American military adventures anymore." That's the view of Max Keiser, finance critic and former stockbroker. He says China and Russia are interested in collapsing the US economy by rejecting the dollar.

Stacy Herbert, my partner on MaxKeiser.com just posted this excellent comment regarding John L. Perry -- former staff member of the LBJ and Carter administration -- call for 'bloodless' coup in the US. Strikingly, the rhetoric is exactly what the US spews here at home to rally around coups in...

The website Mininova, one of the freedom fighters for free speech and innovation in the land of permissiveness, progressive politics and tolerance -- the Netherlands -- is getting harassed by a scared Dutch government kowtowing to the post 9-11 civil- and human-rights-infringing, copyright-cartel lobbyists in Washington and Hollywood.

The Dutch...

LONDON -- The British government says people who illegally download music and films could have their Internet connections cut off.

Treasury Minister Stephen Timms says the move would allow "swifter and more flexible measures" to clamp down on piracy. -- AP

Britain is completely on the wrong side of this...

One of the ongoing themes I explore on my weekly show ON THE EDGE is how debt slavery, i.e., penury, i.e., POS 'Plain Old Slavery' is making a comeback in America thanks to Wall St. banks (read: Goldman Sachs) keeping trillions in bailout money for themselves forcing the other 330...

The current spate of fraud on Wall St., and specifically the front-running and market manipulation scams being committed by Wall St. banks on the floor of the NYSE and other market making venues, is finally getting some coverage This would be good news if it weren't meaningless.

Some...

On my show this week ON THE EDGE I ask the question, should Goldman Sachs be prosecuted for human rights violations? I have been in touch with famed human rights attorney Geoffrey Robertson who has agreed to discuss this hypothetical case on my show. My initial thought is that...