Is Cuba Going Capitalist?
February 3rd, 2014
Via Ozy, an interesting look at Cuba: Cuba’s new business leaders are as different from the 1950s’ legendary bearded guerrillas as an all-electronic Tesla is from the vintage gas-guzzling Chevys that still cruise the streets of Havana. In post-Soviet Russia, ambitious bureaucrats connived to purchase state-owned oil and gas companies. In Cuba today — emerging […]
Read more »Cuba: The Next Emerging Market?
February 14th, 2013
Courtesy of Forbes, a report on Cuba On Dec. 11, Cuba authorized the formation of non-agricultural cooperatives. The latest in a series of small liberalizations, this measure could lead to the formation of small and mid-sized businesses in Cuba, and transform sectors of the country’s economy. Small changes allowing some private enterprise in Cuba are […]
Read more »How Capitalist Are The Cubans?
December 3rd, 2012
Via The New York Times, an interesting article on Cuba: IT was just a small sign, red, round and electrified, advertising homemade pizza — the kind of thing no one would notice in New York or Rome. But in Havana? It was mildly amazing. Cuba, after all, has been dominated for decades by an all-consuming […]
Read more »Which Way Is Cuba Going?
September 21st, 2012
Via The New York Times, an interesting look at Cuba: On the plane, something odd but also vaguely magical-seeming happened: namely, nobody knew what time it was. Right before we landed, the flight attendant made an announcement, in English and Spanish, that although daylight saving time recently went into effect in the States, the island […]
Read more »Cuba Oil Production: Between A Rock And A Hard Place
August 8th, 2012
Via the Financial Times, a short article on Cuba’s offshore oil ambitions: Cuba has found itself between a rock and a hard place in its quest to find oil in its territorial waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Several rocks and several hard places, in fact. After a discovery that failed to reach commercial proportions […]
Read more »Cuba Hits Wall in 2-Year Push to Expand the Private Sector
July 17th, 2012
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on Cuba’s efforts to expand its private sector: Those awaiting measures to create even more opportunity for private business got the opposite last week, when news spread of a little-advertised government decision to charge steep customs duties on the informal imports, from Miami and elsewhere, that are the lifeblood of many […]
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.