The document summarizes several financial crises that occurred between 2000-2010. It describes how the dot-com bubble burst in 2001 led to a recession in the US economy. In response, policies like low interest rates and loose lending standards were enacted under President Bush, but this contributed to over-leveraging and a housing bubble. The bubble eventually burst in 2008 with the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and AIG, plunging the global economy into crisis. President Obama signed a stimulus bill in 2009 that helped recover the US economy, but other countries like Iceland, Spain, and Greece continued facing financial instability through 2012 as they also implemented bailout policies.