Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower
Courtesy of the New York Times, an article on the oil-rich kingdom’s efforts to plow money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of [...]
US and Russia: Vying to Build Ghana’s Nuclear Energy Plant
Courtesy of Semafor, a report on the race to build Ghana’s nuclear energy plant: The United States and Russia are locked in a race against China, France, and South Korea to build the first [...]
Russia Considering Creating Ports in Tanzania, Senegal, Algeria and Egypt
Via Russia’s TASS News, a report that Russia is considering the possibility of creating ports in Tanzania, Senegal, Algeria and Egypt: Russia is considering the creation of ports to organize [...]
Turkmenistan’s Afghanistan Policy: Balancing Risks and Untapped Opportunities
Courtesy of The Diplomat, an article on Ashgabat’s delicate balance between hewing to its traditional neutrality and mitigating potential threats from Afghanistan: The recent delegations from [...]
The Geopolitics of Africa’s Debt Crisis
Via Project Syndicate, commentary on how heightened geopolitical tensions underscore the urgent need for Western countries to help African countries tackle the ongoing debt crisis. Without Western [...]
Why the Taliban Love Social Media
Via The Walrus, a report on the Talian’s use of social media to normalize its rule in Afghanistan: HAMED LATIFEE launched the YouTube channel Afghanistan Streets in 2023 to portray daily life [...]

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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.