The Last Kim of Pyongyang?
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting report on the possibility of North Korea following Myanmar’s gentle path towards liberalization.  As the article notes: For more than two decades, Myanmar [...]
Frontier Markets Up The Ante On Political Risk In Mining
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on mining firms’ increased interest in frontier markets.  As the report notes: Mining companies have been busy scouring investment frontiers that [...]
Myanmar: Poised On Cusp Of Growth?
Via USA TODAY, an interesting article on Myanmar’s growth prospects.  As the report notes: In saffron robes and flip-flops, Buddhist monk Ashin Uttama browses the feast of cheap Chinese [...]
Myanmar: Frontier Banking
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Myanmar’s nascent banking sector.  As the article notes: For all the hoopla surrounding Myanmar as the new Wild West following its half-century of [...]
Stop / Start: Myanmar’s Investment Liberalization
Via The Financial Times, a report on Myanmar’s uneven path towards more liberal foreign direct investment policies.  As the article notes: The “will of the people” is not a phrase you hear [...]
North Korea: Authoritarian Capitalism
Via Forbes, commentary on the future of free enterprise in North Korea.  As the article notes: “DOES THE DEATH of Kim Jong Il portend any change in foreign trade and investment with a range of [...]

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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.