Turns Out North Korea’s Economy Is Actually Doing Pretty Well
May 2nd, 2017 Via Vox, a look at North Korea’s economy and how its quiet embrace of free markets has helped the country survive sanctions: Resolute in its commitment to communism and plagued by sanctions, [...]
Turkmenistan’s Ongoing Gas Quandary
April 27th, 2017 Via The Diplomat, reports of a late resolution of a dispute with a Chinese supplier show further problems in Turkmenistan’s gas industry: Turkmenistan’s gas industry has struggled to adjust to [...]
Iran’s First Mobile Network Operator Has A 58% Market Share
April 26th, 2017 Via Techrasa, a look at Iran’s mobile phone market: During a recent event, CEO of Iran’s first mobile network operator (MCI) gave a performance review of the company to the public. MCI [...]
Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan Should Take a Regional Approach To Start-Ups
April 26th, 2017 Via Bourse & Bazaar, a report on the potential for Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan to take a regional approach to start-ups: Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan host some of most interesting and [...]
Mishandled China-Pakistan Economic Corridor could misfire
April 26th, 2017 Via the Center for Strategic and International Studies’s Reconnecting Asia project, a look at how Islamabad may be attempting too much, too fast amid mounting debt problems: It has been a [...]
New Silk Road Or New Great Game? India Developing New Sri Lanka Port To Combat China
April 26th, 2017 Via Forbes, a look at Sri Lanka and India’s efforts to develop Trincomalee port in the northeast of Sri Lanka: As regional powers like China, Russia, Japan, and India vie for political and [...]

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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.