Why did the moose cross the street?
Why? Because the geopolitical situation on his side of the street had changed drastically, impacting his socio-economic idiom such that he was FORCED to cross the street, where, incidentally, he would be a statistic on the new side of the street and no longer be a statistic on his former side of the street, thus indicating, statistically, that any reforms taking place on the former side of the street have apparently been working perfectly, and that problems on his present side of the street are someone else's, like maybe France's...