Ron DeSantis Blames Dollar Instability As Silver Hits Record Highs: If The US Had A 'Stable Currency' Silver Wouldn't Set New Records
Yahoo Finance·2026-01-26 18:46

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) criticized U.S. monetary policy on Friday, attributing silver’s historic surge past 103perouncetofundamentalinstabilityinthedollar.DeSantisBlastsFiatCurrencySystem“IftheUSactuallyhadastablecurrencyyouwouldn’tseesilversettingnewrecords,”DeSantiswroteonX,respondingtodatafromBarchartshowingsilverhit103 per ounce to fundamental instability in the dollar. DeSantis Blasts Fiat Currency System “If the US actually had a stable currency you wouldn’t see silver setting new records,” DeSantis wrote on X, responding to data from Barchart showing silver hit 103 for the first time in history. At the time Santos posted, the March 2026 silver futures contract (SIH26) reached $103.405, up 7.3%. I ...