Last month, I stood inside a shovel the size of a two-car garage.

We all know the U.S. government is in debt up to its eyeballs. Moody’s is already threatening to downgrade the country’s debt rating due to unfunded liabilities for Medicare and Social Security.

Of the hundreds of ETFs on the market, one of the most useful to track is the PowerShares Building & Construction Portfolio (PKB).

The largest freezer in the world is in Le Mars, Iowa. The freezer is six stories high and shaped like a cube. The local newspaper calls it a “high rise freezer.”

Don’t know the first thing about trading currencies? No problem. You can still invest outside of the falling dollar – even with just a normal stock brokerage account. Let’s look at some great ways you can get in on the foreign currency markets, and actually profit from the dropping dollar.

Soft commodities are now the best-performing sub-set of the commodity bull market. It’s easy to see why. The world’s supply is withering.

Late credit card payments and outright defaults have soared in recent weeks. The most recent data says that “dead” balances written-off as uncollectible by banks have jumped 24% from a year ago. Late payments are up 16%. Can this be linked to the subprime mortgage meltdown? Our research says it is.

Pump prices have hit a second year high at $3.32 a gallon.

The price of a gallon of gas, which according to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll caused Americans most concern when it came to the economy, has risen five cents since March 21.

Higher prices at the pump are due to the rising cost of crude oil and ethanol, according to the Lundberg Survey quoted on CNNMoney.

For the past few years, I’ve written quite a bit about the value of buying stocks through exchange-traded funds or ETFs. You now have the opportunity to enjoy the same advantages with the fixed-income side of your portfolio.

There’s yet another market anomaly happening this year. This one is hurting many commodity bulls who called the market right, but chose the wrong way to play the trend.