What A Zoom Cashier 8,000 Miles Away Can Tell Us About The Future of Work
Via Vox, a look at a new age of digital offshoring: Questions of how a new technology will change the way we work have only become more pressing since OpenAI’s Chat-GPT burst onto the scene in late [...]
Power of Siberia 2: Close Deal or Re-Route?
Via Asia Times, a look at the geopolitics surrounding the Power of Siberia 2 as China debates how alternate Kazakhstan gas route affects Mongolia route plan: A plan to transit Russian natural gas to [...]
American Express Sees Nigeria’s ‘Upward Trajectory’ As Ripe for Credit Cards
Via Semafor, an article on American Express’ interest in Africa: Card payments provider American Express rolled out four new credit cards in Nigeria this week, in its push to become a dominant [...]
Indonesia Bets Big on Electric Vehicles
Via Foreign Policy, an article on Jakarta’s big bet on the green transition: “It took 40 or 50 years to industrialize China,” said Rachmat Kaimuddin, Indonesia’s deputy coordinating [...]
Infrastructure Is Remaking Geopolitics
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, a look at how infrastructure is remaking geopolitics: Falling water levels in Panama’s Gatún Lake. A cyberattack on a payment platform. An earthquake disrupting [...]
The Horn Of Africa States: The Coming Danger To Its Blue Economy
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on the proposed East African Federation: The East African Federation is a proposition on the table. It is to be a union of the eight EAC members and any other member [...]

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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.