Archive for January, 2014

A River Runs Through It …The Mekong Region
January 13th, 2014

Via Foreign Policy, a detailed look at the Mekong River region: Trade flows: borders converging on the Mekong River Mainland Southeast Asia — long fought over and controlled by outside powers, from the colonial era through the Cold War — is finally fending for itself, and then some. Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, which were once […]

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The Two Latin Americas
January 5th, 2014

Via The Wall Street Journal, an interesting look at Latin America, where a continental divide exists with one bloc that favors state controls and another that embraces free markets: There are two Latin Americas right now. The first is a bloc of countries—including Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela—that faces the Atlantic Ocean, mistrusts globalization and gives […]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.

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