After BRIC Comes MINT
May 5th, 2014
Via Bric and China, a look at the MINTs: In 2001, Jim O’Neill (then Head of Economic Research at Goldman Sachs) coined the acronym “BRIC” to place the spotlight on four countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) which he believed were poised for amazing growth in the decades ahead and would one day take their place […]
Read more »Croatian Oil & Gas: An Adriatic Game-Changer?
May 5th, 2014
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting report on Croatia’s hydrocarbons potential: Croatia’s Adriatic coast is best known for its beautiful mountain scenery, clear blue sea and dozens of charming Venetian-influenced towns and cities. But the former Yugoslav country’s government hopes it will become equally well known for what may lie beneath those pristine waters […]
Read more »How The Kurds Got Their Way: New Transitional Zones of Economic Cooperation In The Middle East
April 21st, 2014
Via Foreign Affairs, an interesting report on the emergence of Keep on truckin’: guarding fuel trucks in Haj Umran, Iraqi Kurdistan, July 2010. The surge of ethnic and sectarian strife in Syria and across the Middle East has led a number of analysts to predict the coming breakup of many Arab states. This potential upending […]
Read more »Asia’s Next BRICS?
April 4th, 2014
Courtesy of The Diplomat, an article on how – As growth in the BRICS slows – many of the new economic stars are from the Asia-Pacific: In a recent announcement, global credit insurer Coface Group said the original BRIC economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China would post below-average growth in 2014, down 3.2 percentage […]
Read more »Has China Won The Caspian Gas War?
April 1st, 2014
Via Foreign Policy, a dated (2010) but still instructive look at pipeline politics in Central Asia: Natural gas is in the midst of a transformative moment. The advent of shale gas, the growth of seaborne liquefied natural gas (LNG), and a new “green” image for the old hydrocarbon brought more uses, attention and yes, even […]
Read more »Map Of World Sized By Population & Changing Global Economy
April 1st, 2014
Via Big Picture Agriculture, an interesting graphic of the world, sized by population and reflective of the globe’s changing economy, which illustrates the likelihood of a tri-polar world in which China and India are the major economic powers, counterbalanced by a bloc of the United States, Europe and Japan, whose populations together will total about […]
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.