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Even the matter of building a commodity index stirs debate.

WALL STREET JOURNAL   Goldman Predicts a Recovery in Commodities  |  Goldman Sachs projected that a commodity index would rise 29 percent over the next year, despite uncertainty in Europe, Bloomberg News reports.

You could go long a commodity index.

Hackett, however, recommends a commodity index over soft agriculture ETNs since he's wary of the banking sector.

For instance, Goldman Sachs has a commodity index that helps investors gamble on foods like wheat, cattle, corn as well as natural gas and crude oil.

This latter category might include stocks of companies in those industries, limited partnerships in oil pipelines, investments in hedge funds that specialize in these areas, index funds tied to a commodities index and direct purchases of the commodities.

"People are relying on these strategies to provide them with income for life," said Jonathan Shelon, one of the two portfolio managers overseeing Fidelity Investments' Freedom Funds, which has put in TIPS and a commodities index fund.

A founder with George Soros of the legendary Quantum Fund, he started a commodities index in 1998 when investors were caught up in the dot-com frenzy.

In recent years, more than a dozen commodity index fund companies have been granted individual waivers, after successfully arguing that they were using the futures markets exclusively to hedge their obligations to the people who have invested in their index funds.

Simply put, Fred posits that Goldman Sachs has been using a specialty commodity index that they themselves started in the early 90s to turn food into a abstractly manipulatable economic concept.

The Continuous Commodity Index, a benchmark maintained by the Commodity Research Bureau, was up 33 percent in 2009.