the lower price is a blessing, it allows poor folk like myself the opportunity to buy some metals...silver in particular...gold is too expensive for me...as to why it is going down? Well, I think they have to push the price down to give the illusion that the economy is doing fine. Historically people have used silver and gold as a indicator on how the economy is doing....those of us that are awake knows the economy isn't fine at all! That's my 2 cents.