BRICS’ Middle East Expansion: Towards an Interactive Regional-Global Mechanism
Via Modern Diplomacy, analysis of the BRICS’ Middle East expansion: BRICS’ expansion into the Middle East operates as a combination of regional and global dynamics. The expansion is not just [...]
Saudi Crown Prince Announces Economic Corridor Linking India, Middle East, and Europe
Via Geopolitics in South Asia, commentary on Saudi Arabia’s announced economic corridor linking India, the Middle East, and Europe: According to Saudi Gazette, Saudi Crown Prince and Prime [...]
Turks Are Running Out of Cash—and Patience
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on Turkey’s inflation mess and efforts to turn the situation around: On a wide staircase across the street from a popular bar in Turkey’s biggest city, [...]
A New Racket: A Version of Pickleball Is Taking Off in Venezuela — to Maduro’s Dismay
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a look at the Venezuelan President’s dislike of a racket sport whose growing popularity among the Caracas elite has developers seeking land for new courts: Nicolas [...]
Accelerating Digital Integration in Africa
Via Harvard Business Review, commentary on ways to accelerate digital integration in Africa which – similar to the European Union’s – has been cited as a key to creating stability, [...]
Iran’s New Patrons
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, a look at why China and Russia are stepping up their support for Iran: Upon assuming power in 1979, Iran’s revolutionaries prided themselves on rejecting the global [...]

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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.