Don’t Be Fooled By Libya: This Is A Failed State – OpEd
Via Oil Price.com, an OpEd on Libya: Gunmen today seized Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from a hotel in central Tripoli, releasing him shortly afterwards, but making it clear that post-Gaddafi [...]
Looking For Value In Unconventional Places
Courtesy of Emerging Frontiers, a look at an international value investor focused on emerging markets: Chris Mayer is an international value investor with decades of experience under his belt as a [...]
Is North Korea About to Go Capitalist?
Via the Petersen Institute for International Economics, an interesting commentary on North Korea: Everywhere I went in Tokyo last week, Japanese officials asked me about a story that appeared in [...]
Sudanese Oil: The Key To Peace And Growth
Via Eurasia Review, an interesting look at Sudan and its oil potential: Amidst the difficulties inherent to any transition of sovereignty involving the relinquishing of economically relevant [...]
How Iran Plays the Oil Game … and Wins
Via OilPrice.com, an interesting article on Iran’s oil strategy: Instability in Libya and other parts of North Africa may be giving international investors the jitters.  In August, U.S. energy [...]
North Korea’s Newest Mega Project: Ski Resort
Via FoxNews, a report on North Korea’s newest mega project: In this Friday Sept. 20, 2013 photo, an unfinished hotel complex stands at the bottom of a mountain slope at the ski resort [...]

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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.