Rare Earths: How Beijing Tamed a Lawless Industry and Gained Global Influence
October 28th, 2024 Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how Chinese state-controlled companies now run an industry once known for its acid pits, radioactive waste and smugglers: As recently as 2010, few industries [...]
China Leveraging Laos To Link Up Its Southeast Asian Economic Interests
October 28th, 2024 Via South China Morning Post, a report on China’s growing interest in Laos: China aims to scale up infrastructure construction in uniquely strategic Laos to accelerate trade and investment [...]
Meg Whitman’s Mission in Africa: American Tech Over Chinese
October 28th, 2024 Via Blooomberg, an article on how the U.S. ambassador to Kenya – the former eBay and HP CEO – has made a priority of counterbalancing Chinese influence on the continent: When Meg [...]
Africa To Become Battleground For Global Fuel Exporters
October 28th, 2024 Via The Africa Report, a report on the growing competition amongst global fuel exporters in Africa: With refinery closures in Europe and competition from the Middle East and the US, exporters – [...]
The Political Economy Of Vietnam’s North-South High-Speed Rail Project
October 28th, 2024 Via Eurasia Review, analysis of the Vietnam’s North-South high-speed rail project: Vietnam has had to struggle to develop an efficient railway system due to financial and technical constraints. [...]
Surf’s Up: Riding The Waves In Ghana
October 27th, 2024 Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on a new surfing community and industry arising in Busua a tiny fishing village in Ghana. Can they go global? Busua is a small fishing village in [...]

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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.