Kiyosaki: 60 Years of Silver Stacking Pays Off as Metal Tops $80

Robert Kiyosaki wrote on X on Sunday that six decades of holding physical silver paid off after the metal rose above $80 per ounce. Kiyosaki began accumulating silver in 1965 at age 18, when the metal traded for pennies per ounce, and called the recent price breakout one of the best outcomes of his investing approach.

He linked the $80 level to risks for the U.S. dollar and long-term inflation, and has previously warned that silver above $80 could signal deeper currency erosion and the early stages of hyperinflation. Kiyosaki has set a longer-term price target for silver of $200 per ounce.

The investor listed six assets he considers safe for 2026: gold, silver, oil, food, bitcoin and ethereum. He combined his long-standing silver position with recent cryptocurrency purchases, saying he bought bitcoin near $67,000 and has a 2026 bitcoin target of $250,000. He described silver and bitcoin as complementary hedges against what he views as a decline in the purchasing power of government-issued money.

Kiyosaki has expressed a long-running distrust of fiat currency and has argued that hard, scarce assets preserve value across generations. In his post he asked followers, “What do you see happening in the future? What can you invest in?”

Over roughly the same 61-year period since 1965, the S&P 500 with dividends reinvested returned about 400 times an initial investment, while silver’s price rose roughly 63 times. Those figures compare total returns for U.S. equities and the change in silver’s spot price over the period.

Kiyosaki’s comments reiterate his emphasis on physical ownership of precious metals and certain cryptocurrencies as parts of his investment approach and his concerns about long-term currency weakening.