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Capstone Turbine (Nasdaq:CPST) High-Risk / High-Reward

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Capstone Turbine Corp (Nasdaq: CPST) This company has been in the business of developing, manufacturing and marketing microturbine technology solutions for a wide range of businesses around the world. Put in simple words, they make turbines to create clean energy relying very little in fossil fuels to do so. You can visit their  website  to read more of them. I started following this company about 2 years ago when the price of the stock was about $1.00 or so. I didn't buy there because to me it was too risky and the down potential was far bigger than making money on it. No the company is trading double that price and it is starting to gain traction. As you can see on their  Income Statement  posted on Yahoo Finance, the company has been increasing the sales every year for the past three and it looks just as good on this year. A recent video post  on You Tube about Walmart introducing a new type of truck (18 wheeler) that will reduce emissions and im...

Is The Second Amendment Right Still "Right"?

As days go by and everyone had time to learn more about the horrific events that took place last Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. We now start questioning; How did this happen? Could that be avoided? Is the second-amendment right still “right”? It is especially difficult to think about the implications that a change to our current laws about gun control (or decontrol if you ask me) will bring to our society. There are as many defenders of the right to bear arms as there are people wanting a change in the laws that control more strictly the sale of guns. As for that, there are some retailers already taking action about this; Dick’s Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) has put out a statement saying that “…during this time of national mourning we have removed all guns from sale and from display in our store nearest to Newtown and suspended the sale of modern sporting rifles in all of our stores chain wide.” Some other articles I read were stating that Wal-Mar...