Pemex: How To Fix A State-Run Oil Monopoly That Hasn’t Returned A Profit In Seven Years?
August 7th, 2013
Via Quartz, a look at Mexico’s efforts to reinvigorate PEMEX and Mexico’s energy sector: The time has nearly come for Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, to unveil his plan to reform Mexico’s heavily protected energy sector. But is Mexico ready? Peña Nieto is slated to propose a sweeping energy reform this week, which could come as […]
Read more »Mexico: Back In The Game
February 26th, 2013
Via The New York Times, an op-ed on Mexico’s re-emergence as global economic power: IN India, people ask you about China, and, in China, people ask you about India: Which country will become the more dominant economic power in the 21st century? I now have the answer: Mexico. Impossible, you say? Well, yes, Mexico with […]
Read more »Mexico: A False Dawn?
January 20th, 2013
Via Foreign Policy, a report on Mexico’s economic rise: Mexico begins the new year with unusual optimism. People here have new hope that the worst of the drug war has passed, and the economy has returned to growth after a brutal recession. But in Mexico, things often aren’t what they seem: Is this country really […]
Read more »Mexico’s Growing Middle Class
September 28th, 2012
Via Foreign Policy, a look at Mexico’s growing middle class: Mexico has come in for positive news of late, thanks in part to a forecast published by Nomura Securities that showed Mexico surpassing Brazil as Latin America’s largest economy by 2022. While that’s certainly possible, a more realistic scenario would involve Mexico growing at the […]
Read more »Mexico: 5% Growth?
September 17th, 2012
Via The Financial Times, an article looking at the economic growth potential for Mexico in 2012: Mexico could conclude the year with economic growth of as much as 5 percent, Gerardo Rodríguez, the deputy finance minister said Monday. Good news indeed. Most analysts had been forecasting 4 per cent at most, while the International Monetary […]
Read more »Mexico: An Under-The-Radar Hotspot For VC Investors In Latin America
August 21st, 2012
Via GigaOm, a look at whether Mexico is the “new Brazil” for venture capital investing: Brazil was yesterday’s hotspot for investing in startups in Latin America — tomorrow’s may be Mexico. On the heels of Dave McClure’s firm 500 Startups doubling down on Mexico by acquiring a local accelerator, one of Mexico’s most aggressive VC […]
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.