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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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.

THE OSCAR MAYER ECONOMIC STRATEGY*

Dear Readers:

Recently, George Bush came out with an aggressive, accusatory announcement, which, of itself was entirely unremarkable in its predictability and consistency. It was notable in its Oscar Mayer Factor* however. He stated that the "Democratic-controlled Congress is responsible for the oil crisis and for the high price of oil because of their resistance to offshore drilling." To me, this is not unlike the recently-released child-molester pointing to the elementary school across the street and saying "Those people are responsible for getting me labelled a sex offender! They shouldn't allow them to build elementary schools near our houses!"

While "Dubbya" may be a molester of a different stripe, his statement has no basis in either logic or fact, and is just about as reasonable as the child molester's lament cited in the preceeding paragraph. And, even worse (or "far worser" in keeping with our President's unique "command" of the English Language), is the ironically self-serving egregiousness of the notion. Some facts:

• There is, at present, no shortage of oil supply, nor is their anticipated to be an oil shortage within the next ten years based upon current consumption forecasts;


• Tankers and other storage units are swollen with oil, as they have been for these past several months;


• Drilling for offshore oil would not yield any appreciable results for five to ten years, and the contracts for the drilling, transport and refinement would go to the same oiligopolists who are controlling and manipulating the oil prices now;


• Congress is not truly Democratically-controlled. All governmental decisions and functions (including legislative, judicial and law enforcement), are nowformulated, carried out and overseen by the Executive Branch under the guise of National Security, Executive Priviledge or some other dramatic means of bypassing all checks and balances. Congress does little, if anything, except talk and take vacations. In Congress, generally speaking, Republicans are powered by manure, and Democratics are powered by wind. Neither has any policy power, however, at all;


• The oil crisis was manufactured by a small group of American-based international oil companies acting in collusion with the tacit blessing of the current administration;


• As a young syndicator of oil exploration deals, our President, raising a great deal of investor money and produced more dry holes than a bargeload of Immodium. People used to joke about this. Other people used to even be jailed (but not necessrily at Gitmo) for that kind of thing. It is good to be a part of a powerful family;


• Our President wants to put in his "last licks" at the evil Democrats for the benefit of his family's investment interests, and as a lubricant (ahem) to slide Mr. John McCain into the presidency, which could at very least, help the incumbent to maintain some status quo profits in armament, major international construction, and the "awl bidness".

As for THORIUM ENERGY, INC., our philosophy is somewhat simpler. Put succinctly...

FORGET DRILLING AND START DIGGING.

We are winning friends daily. We build bridges instead of fences.

--THORIUM ENERGY, INC.

p.s. Jack Lifton has noted that a promising and propitious pro-thorium article has been posted in a highly-conservative but very well-regarded and extremely popular blog which has been resistant to acknowledge the seriousness of the Thorium Proposition for a long while. http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/ is one of the most widely-read and acclaimed conservative blogs in the realm of the Blogosphere. Read the first article entry for August 23rd. Keep thinking Thorium.

*p.p.s. The well-known and oft-used "Oscar Mayer Strategy" has to do with the offering up of baloney for the public's consumption.