Here's one for the Human Capital class:

Hewlett-Packard Board Meets on Replacing C.E.O.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/technology/hewlett-packard-board-meets-on-replacing-ceo.html

Is this nuts or what? How can they think that replacing someone, who has just decided to shut down an entire business unit, will turn the company around overnight.

Greece Nears the Precipice, Raising Fear

What are your thoughts on the levers left for the ECB and the G8 to pull to help ensure that Greece and other EU countries do not default on their debt obligations?

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/business/global/as-greece-struggles-the-world-imagines-a-default.html

NetFlix Splits in two and Shares down by more than 30% in last 1 week. Time to buy?

Both units are good acquisition targets after the separation. The streaming business would be a great spend for apple/google/amazon.Qwikster would work out fine for complementing dish if it chooses to
expand blockbuster by mail. Amazon was rumored to have walked away from Nflx in 2009 because of
the distribution centers in each state. It would have forced amzn to start collecting state taxes from all customers. Well, how about now!