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Zimbabwe: Point of No or Full Return?
June 29th, 2008

Via Public Radio’s excellent Marketplace program, an interesting look at investment interest in Zimbabwe, a country whose economy has been in free fall since 2000 when Mugabe endorsed a violent land seizure program and where, today, four out of five adults are unemployed and the inflation rate tops 165,000 percent.  As the interview notes: “…During […]

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Zimbabwe: Point of (Full) Return?
November 17th, 2007

As reported in the WSJ, intrepid investors are seeking out opportunities in some of the most challenging markets around the world. Take, for instance, Zimbabwe where the annual inflation rate is 8,000% and rising, and people don’t have food to eat. As the article notes: “…investors have started pouring millions of dollars into the country. […]

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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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