RE:Shorts Are Not To Blame For This........Facts don't matter for the shorts. They can make their money trashing the stock by raising questions of the type "when was it last time you beat your wife ". Now, they cannot be blamed for accusing anyone by stating facts, innuendoes which are inherent in the question will do the job. What did they prove in the case of CRH? They raised suspicions, by asking questions "what will happen to the labor force if the current labor force retire"? Well the obvious answer would be: they will be replaced. By just raising hypothetical questions, they create uncertainty about the stock and that is the key of going short and devastate the stock. Have the shorts proven anything in the Short Report? Not a thing. Yet once they have shorted the stock, they can publish their Shorts Report. And the way they do it is not by stating facts because for that they would have to prove it and would be liable before the courts. So what they do, they ask questions in order to save their a$$ and at the same time trash the stock and make their money. What don't you understrand about this scam? If they had any spine, they should state facts and stand their ground, but they choose rhetoric and inuendoes to get around the law, cause damage to the stock and rip off investors, period.