Archive for August, 2015

Cuba’s Economic Potential
August 5th, 2015

Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed look at Cuba’s economic potential: Forecast Cuba and the United States will continue to strengthen political ties in the coming months and years. In the short term, Cuban tourism revenue could increase and certain financial restrictions ease, but the country may still feel the impact of Venezuela’s economic downturn. In the […]

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25% Of World’s Population Will Live In Africa By 2050
August 1st, 2015

Via Quartz, an interesting look at population growth trends: As of mid-2015, the world’s population stands at 7.3 billion, according to a new estimate by the United Nations. Over half of the world lives in Asia and a little under a fifth live in Africa. But in 35 years, that picture will look radically different. Between […]

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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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