My review of the decade, top ten events

[phk]

I'd include.

Events that I think kind of embody the whole decade, in no particular order.

1) Emerging Markets Boom. Global GDP nearly doubled in nominal terms.
2) Presidency of George W. Bush
3) 9/11 -- Iraq War (not insinuating they are connected but more along the lines of West/Islamic world tensions).
4) Transition from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0

2000
*2000 Republican primaries
*Nasdaq peaking
*Bursting of the dot-com bubble
*PS2 launching
*Vicente Fox elected President of Mexico
*2000 Election

2001
*Koizumi elected as Prime Minister of Japan
*9/11
*Xbox/GameCube launching
*Afghanistan war begins
*Mohammad Khatami re-elected President of Iran

2002
*Web 2.0 all inclusive of Social Networking, Blogging etc,. Includes things that launched later such as MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, YouTube, Wikipedia.
*Emerging markets boom starts getting noticed.
*Enron bankruptcy
*Worldcom bankruptcy
*President Bush signs Sarbanes-Oxley into law

2003
*Beginning of Iraq War
*Northeast Blackout
*Saddam Hussein's capture
*California recall election

2004
*Madrid terrorist attacks
*Housing bubble starts taking off
*2004 Democratic Primary Season
*President Bush re-elected President of the US
*Tsunami in South Asia and Southeast Asia.

2005
*Tony Blair re-elected as Prime Minister of the UK
*Ahmadinejad elected as President of Iran
*London Bombings
*Xbox 360 launches
*Hurricane Katrina

2006
*Lebanon/Israel war
*Thai Coup D'etat
*PS3 and Wii launch

2007
*iPhone launches
*Bear Stearns goes bellyup
*Benazir Bhutto's assassination rocks Pakistan.

2008
*2008 Democratic Primaries
*2008 GOP Primaries
*Financial crisis/housing bubble burst
*Russia invades Georgia
*Commodities bubble peaks
*President Obama re-elected

2009
*President Ahmadinejad re-elected in Iran setting off a wave of massive protests.