The margin hikes in silver futures caused silver to drop $15.00 an ounce last month.
Although this may have been a bad thing for the speculators, it was a good thing for the long term silver investors, because the short-term profiteers were cleaned out.
So, with silver sitting at around $35-36.00 an ounce, rest assured that when silver goes up to $60.00 an ounce, and even higher, it will be a "solid" increase, because it will be due to supply and demand.
I predict that, some time in the next 12-18 months, private ownership of gold coinage will, once again, be made illegal. Although Obama can't accomplish this via executive order (like FDR did), and it requires an act of Congress to do so, those of you who may own a decent amount of gold coins better be prepared to trade in your gold for a pre-determined amount of Federal Reserve notes (aka "paper and ink").