India’s Ambitions in Africa
July 12th, 2025 Via Geopolitical Futures, a report on how New Delhi is looking to Africa to ramp up its competition with Beijing: Over the past decade there has been a marked increase in the competition for [...]
Gaza 2035: Free Trade Zone or Geoeconomic Imaginary?
July 9th, 2025 Via Chartbook, commentary on what the author terms is the surreal geoeconomic imaginary of Netanyahu’s “economic peace” in the Middle East: I have to admit, when I first saw the [...]
Brazil and China Study South American Transcontinental Railway Project
July 9th, 2025 Via South China Morning Post, a report that Brazil and China agreed on Monday to study the feasibility of a transcontinental railway that could reshape South America’s trade routes by connecting [...]
China Snaps Up Mines Around The World In Rush To Secure Resources
July 7th, 2025 Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at China’s efforts to secure mineral resources worldwide: Chinese mining acquisitions overseas have hit their highest level in more than a decade as [...]
Qatari Firms Pour Billions Into Syria’s Postwar Economy
July 7th, 2025 Via Semafor, a report on Qatar’s investment interest in Syria: Qatar’s longtime support for Syria’s rebels is now translating into business deals. The latest is Baladna — the food and [...]
The Salvadoran Beach Town that Became a Bitcoin Testbed
July 4th, 2025 Via BBC, a report on the Salvadoran beach town that became a Bitcoin testbed In 2019, a grassroots crypto project in El Salvador aimed to create the world’s first Bitcoin-based local economy. [...]

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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.