Big Tech Will Scour the Globe in Its Search for Cheap Energy
December 16th, 2024 Via Wired, a report on the global search for inexpensive energy to power our AI-enabled future: On the southern tip of Malaysia lies the state of Johor, renowned for its beaches and mountainous [...]
Myanmar Civil War Casts Shadow over China’s CMEC Corridor
December 16th, 2024 Via Geopolitical Monitor, a look at the shadow that Myanmar’s civil war is casting over China’s CMEC Corridor: Over the past decade, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) investments [...]
Afghanistan’s Horse Power: What History Can Teach Today’s Petrostates
December 16th, 2024 Via Fortune, an article on how the fall of Afghanistan’s horse power is a lesson to today’s petrostates: power based on a strategic commodity is fleeting. Afghanistan’s Taliban government [...]
Experts Consider US Approach to Africa’s Critical Minerals Under Trump
December 13th, 2024 Via S&P Global, a report on potential US approaches to Africa’s critical minerals under Trump: HIGHLIGHTS Trump’s commitment to strengthening global critical mineral supply chains [...]
Latin America Is About to Become a Priority for U.S. Foreign Policy
December 13th, 2024 Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, commentary on President Trump’s likely prioritization of Latin America, disrupting what some have called three decades of “benign neglect”: While [...]
Will Turkiye Brokered Deal Between Ethiopia and Somalia Lower Tensions in the Horn?
December 13th, 2024 Via The Africa Report, an article on the Turkiye brokered deal between Ethiopia and Somalia: Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan says a joint declaration between Ethiopia and Somalia ‘focuses on [...]

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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.