From: <hibbert@netcom.com>
> I think it's Egypt for which de Soto says that the poor own/control
> property worth something like one hundred times the total value of all
> foreign investment in that country over the last 100 years. But they can't
> get a mortgage, so it's "dead" capital.
Sounds like de Soto should have entitled his book, _The Mystery of Home Equity
Loans_.
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