Malaysia’s Forest City Went From Boomtown to Ghost Town
March 19th, 2024 Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a report on how China’s real estate collapse is sinking projects beyond its borders: On an island in the Singapore Strait, a thicket of apartment blocks peers [...]
Mongolia: A Case for Flexibility in U.S. Economic Engagement
March 18th, 2024 Via Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a paper on U.S. economic engagement of Mongolia: The United States will be unable to fulfill its goals of engaging economically in [...]
How China and Angola Are Redefining Economic Ties for a Post-Oil, Post-Loans Era
March 18th, 2024 Via South China Morning Post, a look at how China and Angola are redefining economic ties for a post-oil, post-loans era: Following decades of the ‘Angola model’ – oil-backed loans to access [...]
The Pacific Power Game
March 18th, 2024 Courtesy of The Wire China, a look at how – with a new multi-billion dollar aid package agreed – the U.S. is trying to keep up with China in a strategically important region: The small [...]
Armenia’s Controversial Dry Port Project Hinges on Foreign Investment
March 18th, 2024 Via Oil Price.com, a report on Armenia’s plans to build a dry port to become a transit and trade hub, reducing reliance on Russia: Armenia aims to build a dry port to become a transit and trade [...]
Inside Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Dominate Mining
March 18th, 2024 Courtesy of Semafor, commentary on Saudi Arabia’s ambitious plans to dominate mining: Saudi Arabia sees vast riches beyond oil within its reach. The kingdom’s broad-ranging ambition, a top [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.