The Finance Wunderkind Putting Georgia On The Map
Via Ozy, an interesting article on George Bachiashvili’s focus on the Republic of Georgia: George Bachiashvili always seems to get ahead of himself. He started school at 4, opened his first [...]
A Bet On Belt and Road: Can Kazakhstan Become The Success Story of Central Asia?
Via the Belt & Road Advisory Group, a look at Kazakhstan’s role in China’s BRI: Central Asia sends connotations of vast steppes, mountainous areas and memories of the ancient Silk [...]
How North Korea Could Go From Hermit Kingdom to Factory Hub
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting article on North Korea’s economic potential: This month’s summit in Singapore between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un [...]
Will Iran’s Economy Collapse?
Via Al-Monitor, an OpEd on Iran’s economic future: Turbulent developments in the past few months on the foreign exchange and gold markets in Iran and the government’s failure to manage [...]
Economic Scramble For North Korea Heats Up
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on North Korea and what appears to be Pyongyang preference for pursuing a state-guided Chinese model over unfettered capitalism: When Donald Trump outlined [...]
Could North Korea Be The Next Vietnam?
Via Capital Economics, an interesting look at North Korea: • Tomorrow’s historic summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un in Singapore has raised the (distant) prospect of international [...]

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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.