Peering Into The North Korean Economy, Via Satellite
June 15th, 2013
Via the BBC, an interesting article on North Korea’s economy: Amid the current tensions between North and South Korea, much focus has been on their shared industrial zone, where economic output has ground to a halt. The furlough is said to have cost the cash-strapped North some $90m (£58m) in wages, and the South’s businesses […]
Read more »Sudan, South Sudan: A Pipeline Attack Amid Oil Talks
June 14th, 2013
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of a recent pipeline attack in South Sudan: The oil pipeline facility in Heglig, South Kordofan state, Sudan. Summary Sudanese army officials said June 13 that rebel groups operating in the contested Abyei region between Sudan and South Sudan attacked a pipeline June 12 and caused an explosion. Khartoum claims […]
Read more »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 »Myanmar: Promise … With Pitfalls
June 1st, 2013
Courtesy of The Economist, a report on the investment potential of Myanmar: MANY OUTSIDERS SEE Myanmar’s opening up as an unmissable economic opportunity. It is the last large Asian country to become connected to the world economy, leaving only North Korea, which is both smaller and infinitely less promising. Myanmar, with about 60m people, is […]
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.