See our accompanying feature on Al Duqm at New Cities Atlas. Fifteen years ago, Al Duqm was a fishing settlement on Oman's southeastern Arabian Sea coast with a population of around 6,000 people, a stretch of coastline and a geography that strategists had been quietly noting for
Ninety percent of everything you own arrived by sea. The phone in your pocket, the coffee in your cup, the fuel in your car, the clothes on your back: almost all of it crossed an ocean in a steel hull before it reached you. Maritime trade is the circulatory system
Capital Frontiers has been conducting an ongoing research project on wine from around the world. We recently wrote about speculative investments in red wine production in China, among other topics. With wine now eclipsing beer as the most popular alcoholic beverage in the United States, our goal is to provide
Part One: The Corporate Game Although it is no longer America’s highest-revenue sport, baseball is still known around the world as America’s “national pastime”. Because of its long season, it attracts more viewers than any other American sport. Because of the way it is played, it is America’
Do oil and water mix? Kavango East is an unrivaled repository of oil and fresh water in Africa. Botswana and Namibia are positioned to benefit from it. Could it catalyze a future greater than even they yet realize? Capital Frontiers investigates. The Lightning in a Bottle Equation It is among
Take me out to the ballgame…and let’s stay the night. So is the new mantra of Major League Baseball. After a period between 1991 and the mid-2010s that saw nearly every Major League team build a new stadium, the pace of ballpark construction over the last five years
Much of the country reacted with curious disbelief in 2021 when numerous media outlets – from Business Insider (https://www.businessinsider.com/how-american-dream-changed-unraveled-housing-labor-supply-chain-shortage-2021-11) to The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/18/dont-rant-about-short-staffed-stores-supply-chain-woes-try-lower-expectations/) reacted to surging gas prices, labor shortages, and the limited availability of consumer goods at
Has the baseball Hall of Fame transitioned from being a museum celebrating the history of the greatest players and feats in baseball to being a museum merely celebrating the favorite players of an egotistical media? It's a leading question, I know. The failure to induct the greatest and
For most of the last hundred years, the dominant fear in academic and policy circles has been that the world was growing too fast. Too many people, too many mouths, too much consumption, and not enough resources to sustain it all. From the Club of Rome to The Population Bomb,
In all formal channels of society, it seems that the glorification of athletes, celebrities, and musicians is on the rise. Media nearly across the board have sympathized with Players Unions in disputes with team ownership at all levels of professional sports, regardless of the issue. They’ve pushed for college
We’ve written about the vision for NEOM multiple times on Capital Frontiers. NEOM is the massive new city project Saudi Arabia launched in 2017 in the country’s northwest corner by Jordan, a priority project of the Crown Prince with the objective to create an unparalleled and unprecedented reinvention
When the ownership of the Cleveland Indians decided to change the team’s name a few years ago, the opportunity presented them a generational opportunity to rebrand not only the Cleveland Baseball Team but, in some ways, the entire city of Cleveland, for the next century. With the recent announcement