Welcome To Mogadishu
June 2nd, 2013
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Somalia: Boys repairing fishermen’s nets on Mogadishu seafront You can see where their heads hit the roof,” says a member of Somalia’s bomb squad. He is showing me pictures of the latest co-ordinated suicide attack. Even in the mess that mingles body parts of victims and perpetrators, […]
Read more »China’s Global Reach
June 2nd, 2013
Courtesy of the New York Times, an OpEd on the global reach of China’s state capitalism: THE combination of a strong, rising China and economic stagnation in Europe and America is making the West increasingly uncomfortable. While China is not taking over the world militarily, it seems to be steadily taking it over commercially. In […]
Read more »A Looming Showdown Over Iraqi Kurdish Oil
June 1st, 2013
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed analysis of another showdown that is building between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the government of Iraq over oil exports, only this time Turkey has entered the fight: Turkey has a dilemma. Its competition with Iran in Syria has already been exposed — Turkey is backing the Sunni […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.