Archive for the ‘Nauru’ Category

The Pacific Power Game
March 18th, 2024

Courtesy of The Wire China, a look at how – with a new multi-billion dollar aid package agreed – the U.S. is trying to keep up with China in a strategically important region: The small island countries that dot the vast Pacific Ocean are sparsely populated and hard to pinpoint on a map. Yet in […]

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The Country With Nothing Left to Lose: Nauru’s Bet on Deep Sea Mining
February 13th, 2024

Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on how – in its quest for cash – the tiny island nation of Nauru has tried it all. Its latest scheme may be its riskiest bet yet: If an apocalypse struck Earth, Sam Bankman-Fried—the billionaire tech entrepreneur behind the United States’ most explosive cryptocurrency scandal—wasn’t ready to die. […]

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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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