Clean Energy Projects Are Booming Everywhere. Except in Poor Nations.
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on clean energy projects in developing countries like Congo where a big obstacle is the lack of loans, a subject of intense disagreement between richer and [...]
Mongolia’s Search for a Third Way
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, commentary on what the U.S. can offer a country stuck between China and Russia: The visit in early July of Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov to Beijing would have [...]
Riyadh: An Emerging Global Cuisine Hub
Via Arab News, a report on Riyadh’s ascent on the international gastronomic scene: “Gastronomic explosion” has accompanied Saudi capital’s transition from administrative capital to [...]
Syria’s Economic Woes Create New Fractures and Power Struggles
Courtesy of Rane’s STRATFOR Worldview, an updated look at Syria’s economic woes: In Syria, growing economic distress and frozen reconstruction efforts are threatening the legitimacy of [...]
U.S. / Vietnam Bamboo Diplomacy: Focused On Chips Not Troops
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, commentary on the limits—and hidden strengths—of Washington’s new partnership: In the weeks since U.S. President Joe Biden traveled to Hanoi to announce a [...]
A New $850 Million Route to Speed Up Congo’s Copper Exports
Via Bloomberg, a report on a new $850 million, 184 km road connecting Zambia and DRC to the port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania: Company plans new highway cutting through Zambia to Tanzania Project [...]

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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.