How would you invest $50,000?
dfranke: Here's something you can do even with small dollars and without being an accredited investor: find some public firms with lots of "toxic assets" on their books, e.g. mortgage REITs.  See if you can find some that most people are afraid to touch, yet you think they'll pull through.  Buy their stock.I have a lot more research to do before I pull the trigger, but I'm planning to throw a couple grand in this direction myself.