Jared Kushner Wants To Turn A Wild Stretch of Albania Into A Luxury Resort
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on Jared Kushner’s planned Albanian development, funded with Saudi and other Middle Eastern investment: In one of his several trips to Albania over [...]
Chinese Cash Paves Way For Complicated Cambodian Development
Via East Asia Forum, a report on Chinese investment in Cambodia: In May 2024, Cambodia acknowledged China’s significant economic and political support by renaming a major road in Phnom Penh to [...]
Indonesia’s Solution To Overcrowding: Carve A New Capital Out Of The Jungle
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, a report on Indonesia’s new capital: Indonesia is carving a new capital city — called Nusantara — out of the tropical rainforest to escape the urban [...]
Capital Markets of the Silk Road: Uzbekistan
Via The Opus, a report on I recently visited Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as part of the research trips I am conducting for my Imperium work. The Uzbek portion of the trip was organized by a local [...]
South Korea’s Railway Ambitions in Central Asia
Via The Diplomat, a report on a recent agreement between South Korea and Tajikistan to start a feasibility study for a rail route that would connect Tajikistan via Afghanistan to routes both east and [...]
Tanzania To Get New $5 Billion Capital City
Via Newsweek, an article on Tanzania’s planned new capital city: The Government of Tanzania has launched the construction of a new capital city, with a price tag of $5 billion. The city, named [...]

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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.