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Robert Kiyosaki, author of the bestseller Rich Dad Poor Dad, warned of a retirement crisis for the baby boomer generation, naming Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) as survival assets. At the same time, distrust in traditional retirement savings models is once again fueling debate in the cryptocurrency market.
According to cryptocurrency media outlet U.Today on May 6 (local time), Kiyosaki defined 2026 as a period of significant change for baby boomer savings. He argued that traditional retirement savings models are losing stability, and US Treasury bonds no longer serve as safe-haven assets due to inflationary pressures.
Kiyosaki's core argument focused on the weakening function of government bonds rather than the rise of Bitcoin itself. For decades, pension funds have considered US Treasury bonds to be the safest asset. However, Kiyosaki believes that with oil prices remaining above $100 due to the Middle East conflict, inflationary pressures have increased, and bond yields cannot offset the real value depreciation of the dollar.
He described the baby boomer retirement issue as a "catastrophe" and warned that millions of baby boomers could lose their jobs and face financial difficulties in 2026. Kiyosaki claimed to have anticipated the baby boomer retirement crisis since 1974 and stated that he wrote relevant books for that generation and their families.
Kiyosaki presented Bitcoin and Ethereum not as means of rapid wealth accumulation but as foundations for financial survival. He argued that the US Federal Reserve would inevitably continue to supply liquidity to the market to manage the $39 trillion national debt, while Bitcoin's issuance structure and Ethereum's algorithm, unlike this, remain unchanged.
Kiyosaki also included food production assets, gold, and oil in this year's lifeboat list. U.Today reported that Kiyosaki was not promoting cryptocurrencies themselves, but rather foretelling the end of the old financial ethics that stable retirement is possible by working hard and saving in fiat currency. However, critics countered that US Treasury bonds still remain a core stabilizing mechanism for major funds, and a mass migration of individual investors to decentralized assets without sufficient preparation could increase short-term liquidity risks.
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