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Monday, September 29, 2008

BEING TANGIBLE

Dear Readers:

Today, U.S. legislators failed to pass a $700 million "bailout" package for the failing banking and investment industries , and the expected occurred:


1. In excess of $1.3 trillion in market value (stocks, bonds and other publicly-traded securities) was lost following the news. In essence, we had a "Black Friday" on Monday. The NASDAQ, the Dow Jones, NYSE, and virtually every other trading forum or investment indexing service cratered under the pressure.


2. Announcements about precipitous increases in home foreclosures, massive joblessness, and a domino effect of cascading business failures screamed through the media.


3. Both political parties blamed each other (because blaming is much easier than actual problem-solving) for the failure to reach an agreement on a rescue package needed to save the entire U.S. economy. If Wall Street fails, Main Street fails -- there is no clear division between the two, as they are symbionts. Besides, you smart folks understand that any bailout is merely temporary symptomatic relief. The underlying system is riddled with gangrenous infection.


4. Widespread pessimism is enhancing this negative wave -- a typical "self-fulfilling prophesy" at work, deepening and expanding the negative spiral. These fears are causing individuals to either A) become paralyzed and completely decision averse, or B) become fanatical liquidators while no purchasers have the willingness or the discretionary capital to buy. Prices plummet to the extent that sellers cannot sell, so they withdraw, and buyers don't want to buy, so they keep their wealth in the form of cash. Ironically, the cost of every service or product of necessity is rising, as consumer wealth is declining, and family incomes are decreasing .


5. Individuals are trying to convert assets to cash (further devaluing the U.S. Dollar, and drying up all of the capital markets), or to gold or foreign currencies. All of the foreign securities markets are experiencing adverse reactions and substantial value losses -- this crisis is worldwide, with the U.S. at its epicenter. We are indeed a world leader!


6. Banks have all but stopped making loans, putting our leverage-powered, low-savings-oriented economy into a state of severe contraction...almost paralysis.


7. Americans are not planners. They react by first reflex, follow fads, and do not prepare for delays and failures. Americans are, by their nature, optimistic, and they tend to believe that all negative events are aberrations. Like the old boxer, they keep coming back regardless of how shattering that last punch was.


Where is the interesting news? Gold is climbing in value, and heralding a rise in the value of tanigibles fueled by a flight to quality. It is almost primal. When institutional markets or economies get shaky, individuals would like to put their wealth in a form where it is tangible. They want to visit it, see it, weight and assay it, touch it, comformt themselves with it.


Generally speaking, it is difficult for the ordinary Main Street investor to get cozy with an option, a derivative, short selling, or fiat money. Humans want TANGIBLE things...teddy bears in bed when it's lights out. We inherently equate value with tangible when pieces of paper (which comprise our 401 K or Roth IRA, or perhaps our Lehman Bros. pension) become worthless overnight.


I haven't mentioned THORIUM, or THORIUM ENERGY, INC. I don't have to. While reading this, you were already making the leap from gold to thorium. There are, of course, some differences...gold has a quoted aftermarket with an accepted pricing mechanism, while thorium is not trading (YET) on any of the major recognized exchanges, despite the growing body of evidence in private deals that its value is increasing steadily.


The other difference is that you can make beautiful necklaces with gold (it is shiny and malleable), and the only thing you can do with plain-looking thorium is power the continuation of civilization.


Thorium is tangible, and it has absolute utility. It represents a true store of value.


Think thorium.


--THORIUM ENERGY, INC.






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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

THE FLIGHT TO VALUE - DIGGING THORIUM

Dear Readers:

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NOTE: Neither THORIUM ENERGY, INC., nor the writer offer any investment, financial, tax or legal advice in this article, or on this weblog. No solicitation for the sale or purchase of securities or investment interests is made hereby.


The capital markets are moved by two principal forces; 1) greed, and 2) fear. Economists tend to substitute words like "risk" and "reward"...but then again, economists are usually salaried, highly academic in their orientation, disclaim any prediction about the future and love to discuss why the markets do what they do after the fact. Most economists like to write a great deal more than they like to invest, also. yet these folks get involved in regulating and de-regulating markets within which they have little "street level" experience. A bit frightening, isn't it? Not unlike the prospect of Dr. Phil selling a hairstyling book. And yes, I was educated as an economist, myself (ulp!). But,

Back on point:








  • These two forces, greed and fear, are consistently the principal underlying factors for every financial decision except for philanthropic giving, which has its own set of special motivations. Put in the form of a question, every investor silently mouths these words: "What can I gain at a certain acceptable level of risk?"








  • When fear of catastrophic loss overshadows the prospect of any opportunistic gain, markets react, sometimes violently. Ultimately, a market is made up of individuals and institutions who make buying and selling decisions. The capital markets in the United States and throughout the various countries of the world which have securities and currency exchanges are in a state of enormous volatility and flux as of ther date of this writing. Investors are scared. Retirement portfolios have been wiped out. Pensions will go unfunded and unpaid. Jobs are being lost. All of the bedrock institutions that held the economy together, either by rumor or by function, are either collapsing, merging (i.e., packing more fertilizer in one bag), or negotiating bailout agreements with government agencies which, themselves have been frighteningly mismanaged or abused.








  • Investment monies have begun moving more consistently into several markets, and appear to be staying invested in those markets on a longer-term basis:





  • 1..... *The precious metals, certificates of ownership of precious metals, and financial instruments backed by precious metals or precious metals markets;




  • 2..... *Euros, and Euro-denominated securities;




  • 3..... *Non-precious metals, and mining and mineral rights. This latter category is expanding because A) the liquid market trading value of these elements or minerals is becoming increasingly well-established through various informal exchanges which are trading in them all over the world, and B) each of these elements or minerals actually has industrial utility. This is to say that these materials can be mined and sold, and their value will generally, speaking be the greater of the informal market trading value, or the price which is determined directly by supply and demand.
Quite obviously, this all bodes well for the future of thorium, as well as for the Rare Earth Elements.

Additionally, more countries, including India, Canada, China, UAE, Dubai, Bahrain, and even the United States are no longer speaking of thorium as a "possible fuel" -- they are all investing increasing efforts, energies and money in perfecting reactor design to optimize the use of thorium as the principal fuel in producing clean atomic power. It is only getting better for thorium's position on the periodic table of the elements. We are beyond theory and into the realm of practical application.

While you are here, there is an article and two blogs which you might well find to be of interest. They are not directly on the subject of thorium, and some of them are a bit dated, but they have one thing in common -- fascinating implications. Just click on each, and enjoy your reading experience:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/business/11lehman.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2225627/god-machine-green

http://martinmeenagh.blogspot.com/2008/09/large-hadron-collider-future-fuel.html



*Should you have an interest in purchasing either an ownership stake in THORIUM ENERGY, INC., or in a portion of its resources or reserves, please advise us of your interest by email at douglascastle@thoriumenergy.com , or by going to the CONTACT US section of this weblog.

Think thorium.

Faithfully,

--THORIUM ENERGY, INC.

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

A FLIGHT TO THE GROUND


Dear Readers:


Have you been reading the news? If not, I would like to take a moment to provide you with a narrowly focused summary:



  1. The US Government has seized control of FANNIE MAE and FREDDIE MAC, the nation's two biggest providers and guarantors of home mortages, in order to keep these failing giants "afloat," lest they precipitate the collapse of the home mortage market, and of the aftermarket for mortgage portfolios and securitized loan packages (which markets have been reduced to a bargain basement of deeply discounted, downgraded paper). Of course, the initial reaction of the capital markets to Government coming in to rescue the housing market, was to rally a bit -- but we all understand what generally happens to quality and accountability when the Government "saves" something; it usually exacerbates and delays the inevitable, and at even greater expense to the economy-at-large;

  2. Lehman Brothers, the nation's fourth largest investment banking firm, has forecast tremendous losses after investment portfolio writedowns, and is discussing a plan to sell off divisions of its operations in order to raise money to meet its obligations -- to remain solvent.This does not bode well for Lehman Brothers, nor does it bode well for either the US debt or equities markets;

  3. The ultimate effect of these telling events is a decrease in the liquidity in the capital markets, a decrease in the value of economic aggregates (the capital value of all stocks and all debt instruments), a decrease in the ranking of the US Dollar versus other hard currencies, and a diminution in the capital formation process in general.

The good news is that a flight of wealth into metals, both precious and non-precious, has already begun, and is further bolstered by the failures in the capital markets and the instabilities in the fossil fuels markets.


While some regard thorium (in its slightly grey oxidized state) to be a tradeable non-precious metal, we, at THORIUM ENERGY, INC. consider it to be most highly precious. We can say this in light of; the ailing capital markets, the worldwide energy crisis caused by dependence upon fossil fuels, and on the high probability that atomic energy fueled through Thorium will continue to be the preferred direction in which all of the smart money seems to be headed.


--THORIUM ENERGY, INC.

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