Bolivia Authorizes State Oil Company To Tap Crypto for Fuel Trade
March 15th, 2025
Via MSN, a report on Bolivia’s authorization of its state oil company to use cryptocurrency for energy imports: Key Takeaways Bolivia’s state energy firm, YPFB, will use cryptocurrency for energy imports amid a worsening fuel crisis. The country is struggling with declining gas exports and a shortage of foreign currency reserves. Crypto adoption in Bolivia […]
Read more »The Unlikely Revival Of A Great Middle Eastern Railroad
March 15th, 2025
Via Noema, a report on how a railroad that once linked Damascus to Medina, its tracks and stations now crumbling into the desert or destroyed by treasure hunters, could help stitch a fragmented region back together: In the center of this city in southern Syria is a long, rectangular warehouse constructed of black basalt. It […]
Read more »Plans for a Chinese Port Roil the Politics of a Former Soviet Nation
March 13th, 2025
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how Georgia’s government sparked an uproar by announcing that a port project on the Black Sea will be awarded to a company from China after canceling a contract with a consortium that included Western firms: For more than a year, pro-Western marchers in Georgia, a former Soviet […]
Read more »Malaysian EV Brands Gain Speed On China’s BYD
March 13th, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on Malaysian EV brands plans to give China’s BYD a run for its money: Malaysian electric vehicles are gaining ground in their home market as local carmakers Proton Holdings and Perodua challenge top-seller BYD and Tesla with more affordable models. Proton said last week that sales of the e.MAS 7 […]
Read more »Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan Bury Soviet-Era Border Legacy With Landmark Treaty
March 13th, 2025
Via Havli, a report on the new agreement between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan that has set the stage for a major surge in trade and the promise of a new era of Central Asian unity: And so, with a few pen strokes, one of the Soviet Union’s most pernicious legacies – the tangled borders of Central […]
Read more »China Piles the Pressure on India in Its Own Backyard
March 12th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, a report on Diego Garcia, a remote Indian Ocean island nearly 2,000 miles from the East African coast, boasts clear-blue waters, pristine beaches — and a US-UK military base at the heart of the great-power chess match involving the US, China and India. The British territory in the Chagos Archipelago – which has […]
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.