BRICS Reaching Out To PEAKS: The Next Wave Of Expansion
February 11th, 2023
Via Modern Diplomacy, an article on the potential next wave of expansion for the BRICS: Throughout 2022 the theme of BRICS expansion has taken on notable momentum as China’s BRICS+ initiative has engendered increasing aspirations from some of the largest developing economies to join the BRICS grouping. Countries from diverse geographies such as Argentina, Turkey, […]
Read more »Gas and Mining Boom To Transform Argentina’s Economy
January 25th, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale development is set to turn Buenos Aires into a significant exporter: Exports of gas, lithium and other minerals offer Argentina a “phenomenal growth opportunity” and will significantly boost the heavily indebted South American nation’s ability to repay creditors from 2025, the country’s economy […]
Read more »Brazil and Argentina Eye Common Currency Similar To Euro
January 24th, 2023
Courtesy of Fortune, an article on Brazil and Argentina’s exploration of a common currency similar to the euro, with other Latin American nations invited to join: Argentina and Brazil are in the preliminary stages of renewing discussions on forming a common currency for financial and commercial transactions, reviving an often-discussed plan that would face numerous political […]
Read more »Uruguay: Plotting To Poach Argentina’s Tech Sector
December 9th, 2022
Courtesy of Rest of World, an interesting report on how – escaping crisis – Argentine tech workers want to recreate their home startup scene just across the river Across the world, the arrival of digital nomads is a sign of issues to come — with “gentrification” being the watchword for a myriad of tensions between […]
Read more »China’s Latin America Move
November 11th, 2022
Via Forbes, a look at China’s increasing interest in Central and South America: Washington may hate the word, but there is no denying that it has exercised all but untrammeled hegemony in Latin America for as long as anyone can remember. It now faces a challenger: the same one it faces in the western Pacific, […]
Read more »Can South America Take Advantage of the Lithium Boom?
October 18th, 2022
Via Foreign Policy, a look at South America’s lithium “triangle”: Commodity prices have gone haywire lately, but lithium is one that shot up and stayed there. The price of lithium carbonate, a key component of many electric batteries, hit an all-time high in April and remains almost 10 times what it was two years ago, […]
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.