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 [...]
To This Tycoon, Iran Sanctions Were Like Gold
Via The New York Times, a report on Iranian businesspeople who prospered while helping the regime avoid sanctions: He called himself the “economic basij,” a reference to Iran’s hard-line [...]
Africa’s true size will blow you away
Via io9, a very interesting graphical look at [...]
To Invest In Frontier Markets, Private Equity Is the Only Way To Go
Via Real Clear Markets, an interesting commentary on the role of private equity in frontier market investing: Emerging markets are cooling down, which has investors looking deeper into the frontier [...]

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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.