The Future of BRIC & MIST Economies
November 14th, 2013
Via AlphaNow, an interesting infographic on BRIC and MIST economies:
Read more »Pipelines Of Empire
November 13th, 2013
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of the geopolitical impact of pipelines in Europe: At this juncture in history, the fate of Europe is wound up not in ideas but in geopolitics. For millennia, eruptions from Asia have determined the fate of Europe, including invasions and migrations by Russians, Turkic tribes and Byzantine […]
Read more »Prospects for the Moscow-Busan “Iron Silk Road Express”
November 12th, 2013
Via SinoNK, a report on the new rail connection between Russia and North Korea: The DPRK’s northeast is once again the place to look for economic and political policy changes in the hermit kingdom. Since Rason Special Economic Zone’s 2009 rise in development, China has been the main investor in the borderlands. But now Russia […]
Read more »Assets Of The Ayatollah
November 12th, 2013
Courtesy of Reuters, a very interesting multi-part look at how Khamenei’s conglomerate thrived as sanctions squeezed Iran: Part 1: A Reuters investigation details a key to the supreme leader’s power: a little-known organization created to help the poor that morphed into a business juggernaut worth tens of billions of dollars. The 82-year-old Iranian woman keeps […]
Read more »How To Get A Cell Phone In North Korea
November 12th, 2013
Via the Petersen Institute for International Economics, an interesting article on cellular telephony in North Korea: Perusing through articles from our friends at Sino NK, I found an oldy but a goody on North Korean bureaucratic inefficiency at its most groan-inducing. Late last year, Christopher Green wrote on the process required for North Korean citizens […]
Read more »Mongolia’s Mining Sector
November 12th, 2013
Via Mining.com, an interesting article on Mongolia’s mining sector: On November 3 Mongolia’s new, friendlier foreign investment law came into force. Probably not a day too soon. The Asian nation of three million citizens, dependent on the mining sector to fuel growth, is desperate to turn around the slump in its economy and the steep […]
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.