Archive for December, 2015

The Century Of Cities
December 11th, 2015

Via the Sustainable Cities Collective, an interesting look at some of the opportunities and challenges facing the world’s metropolises in the 21st century: This is going to be a century of cities. Already 50% of world’s population is urban and this rate is increasing by 10% per year, meaning that by 2035, 70% of world’s population […]

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Can Beijing’s Silk Road Act As A Regional Marshall Plan?
December 2nd, 2015

Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, an interesting look at China’s efforts to depict its Silk Road initiative as a way to extend economic development to its troubled inland neighbors: China has long tried to get the West to acknowledge that the Muslim extremist violence that rages from North Africa through the Middle East and onward […]

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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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