The document discusses the 2008 financial crisis and government bailouts. It provides background on how risky mortgage lending practices led to the crisis. It describes major events like the failures of Lehman Brothers, AIG receiving an $85 billion bailout from the federal government, and the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailout. It considers risks of the government stepping in or not stepping in during a financial crisis and notes the economy may continue to struggle even after bailouts.

1. Who’s Going to Bail Me Out? Navigating Today’s Market Conditions

3. $700 Billion Bail Out

4. Let’s Back Up…

8. What does this mean to me? BANKS BAILOUT SUBPRIME RISK

16. What’s this Bailout all about? $700 BILLION!

17. What $700,000,000,000.00 (seven hundred billion) looks like: It's hard to imagine what the USA bailout would look like in hard cash.

31. Now double that. And add $170 Billion. That's the price tag of the bailout...

37. Economy: Here's GDP. Again, that dot is the bailout.

38. Unemployment: Did the bailout put people right back to work? Not exactly.

39. Housing: Given that the RTC cleaned up the S&L mess, you might think housing bounced back right away. Nope.

40. So Who Will Bail You Out? Ultimately you…but you’ll need an advisor on your team