After the first breakthrough of $40 trillion in United States Treasury debt balances, the market discussion of the financial burden and the purchasing power of cash rose again. By doing so, Robert Kiyozaki, author of " Fathers rich and poor ", reiterated that long-term excessive cash holdings could face greater losses and continued to give higher priority to the asset options of gold, silver, bitcoin and part of real estate.
The debt scale is high.
According to United States Treasury Department data, as of August 18, total outstanding public debt in the United States had risen to $40,047 trillion, compared with $39,987 trillion the previous day. This was the first time that total United States debt had broken $40 trillion.
Of this amount, approximately $32.27 trillion is public debt and $7.78 trillion is intra-government debt. As the size of the debt continues to expand, interest expenditure on federal finances has also become the focus of market attention.
The U.S. Congress Budget Office projects that the federal government ' s net interest expenditure for fiscal year 2026 will exceed $1 trillion, rising to $2.1 trillion in 2036. The Agency also expects that the share of public debt in GDP will rise from 101 per cent this year to 120 per cent in 2036.
Ministry of Finance expanded long-term national debt buy-back
The latest statement by Kiyozaki is also related to the adjustment of the United States Treasury Department ' s long-term bond buy-back arrangements. The Ministry of Finance indicated that, effective 9 September, the operating ceiling on single buy-backs of some long-term national debt would increase from $2 billion to at least $4 billion.
He described the initiative as another form of quantitative easing and criticized policymakers for continuing to “print more money”. However, in terms of operational definitions, this statement is not accurate.
The explanation given by the Ministry of Finance is that such buy-backs are primarily used to improve market liquidity for part of the inactive State debt. Quantitative easing, commonly referred to, is carried out by the Fed and is accompanied by the expansion of central bank balance sheets, which are not the same.
Keep looking at gold, silver and bitcoin.
From an asset allocation point of view, Kiyozaki continues to advocate reducing reliance on cash and shifting to scarce assets or those that generate income. He named gold, silver, bitcoin and part of the real estate.
He has recently been particularly active in his attitude towards silver and has been described as one of his best options in August 2026. According to the article, spot gold was estimated at $4619 per ounce for the 27th of August, 68.88 for silver and $786 for bitcoin.
Against the backdrop of continued high levels of United States debt, inflation and rising federal interest expenditure, the market is more concerned about the need to reassess the share of cash in the portfolio. Kiyozaki's statement was not new, but once again the discussion of the loss of purchasing power had been triggered by the debt overcoming the integer level.