Last summer my wife and I were shopping for a potential second home in Charlottesville, VA. We quit looking when we decided the prices were too nutty. Home prices there have gotten more attractive lately, however. They’ve come down from insane to merely ridiculous.

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.