When we have kids, it’s not unusual to hope they are at least a little bit like us. Maybe we want them to have the same hair color or penchant for sports or the arts. Sometimes, we hope they mimic some of our greatest qualities, like good study habits and staying organized. There is something to be said for individuality and paving your way, even if it’s not the way we would do things. Much like her iconic character on Friends, Courteney Cox likes things to be nice, clean, and tidy. Unfortunately for Courteney, her 20-year-old daughter, Coco Arquette, didn’t get the cleaning bug from her mom. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Courteney Cox (@courteneycoxofficial) CoCo Is Good At A Lot Of Other Things Courteney Cox told People that occasionally, her daughter will tell her she’s cleaned things up and organized her life really well and feels “so good.” But, it’s not something she cares to do all the time like her mom. “She’s getting older, and she does live on her own, and she does take pride in that, which I think is good,” Courteney said. “But no, I don’t think she has my gene in the same way, and I don’t have hers. Listen, she’s a great singer. She’s a great writer. She has so many qualities that I don’t have, so that’s okay.” Courteney’s obsession with cleanliness is nothing new, and she says it brings her joy. She told People her passion for a clean house helped her to create a partnership with Shark and their new line of vacuums. “Everyone that knows me, any friend I have, knows that I just love things that are organized, neat, and clean, and I can’t help it. I was born this way and it’s so important to me,” she admitted. “One of the things that make me happy is to have a really clean surrounding.” This story’s featured image is by lev radin via Shutterstock. The post Courteney Cox Had The Most Monica Geller Thing To Say About Her Daughter appeared first on InspireMore.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. New numbers say the European Union has joined Japan in the “lost decades” brigade, with per-person gross domestic product in dollar terms nearly flat since 2008. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, while disposable household income in the U.S. is $51,000, it’s just $39,000 in Germany, $34,000 in France, $29,000 in Italy, and $21,000 in Greece. For perspective, Mexico is about $16,000. Why is Europe fading? Simple: Government took over. Government spending is nearly half of Europe’s GDP, which hogs physical resources—steel, workers, etc.—while predatory tax rates punish production and welfare tempts workers away. Nobody produces, everybody takes. Add in mandates from environment to social policy that hike prices and slap straitjackets on companies, and the smart ones leave, the rest grimly soldier on, staying in business till their factories wear out, then it’s lights out. In short, it doesn’t pay to produce in Europe. Atlas is shrugging. What’s driving the takeover is a toxic combination of vote-buying welfare and crony handouts to corporations. I’ve mentioned in previous videos Europe’s stream of trillion-dollar “stimulus” bills that went to corporations, while welfare spending consumes 1 in 3 dollars in countries such as France and Italy. In the U.S., it’s still high, at 23%. In South Korea, for comparison, it’s 15%. While the corporations feast on government handouts, the taxes that sustain Europe’s welfare state come from the small and medium businesses, who are getting wiped out. Today, the U.S. has 33 million small businesses. Europe, with one and a half times the population, has just 24 million. Half as much per capita. The difference is even greater with new startups. Europe’s venture industry is six times smaller than the U.S., which has just two-thirds of Europe’s population. Moreover, very little of this European money is actual innovation: Europe has missed every tech revolution since basically 1910, instead either copying U.S. business or exploiting government handouts from climate to so-called national champion mega-corporations. To give a flavor, over 90% of artificial intelligence venture money is happening in America, with Europe straggling along with a couple chatbots. Tallying it up, governments in Europe spend 49.6% of GDP, roughly a quarter more than the U.S., which spends 40%. Not that 40% is great; traditionally we were closer to 20%. But apparently that last couple trillion breaks the bank. Incidentally, countries such as Singapore do spend just 18% of GDP on government, but have safe, clean streets and grow at 3%-4% per year. So, it’s not science fiction; stagnation is a policy choice. Sadly, all of this was predictable. In 2013, the Brookings Institution issued a white paper warning of a lost decade in Europe if they didn’t fix government governments and shrinking private sectors. Alas, true to form, European bureaucrats didn’t fix it. Instead, they doubled down on the welfare spending, the crony handouts, the tax hikes, and the political mandates. As a result, since 2000, roughly 1 in 5 publicly listed European companies have either left Europe or gone out of business. The 5,500 companies left average just one-third the size of listed firms in America. Europe is strangling itself. So, what’s next? In theory, European voters would wake up and demand change. In practice, the political elite in Europe has instead abused democratic institutions to shut out or even censor any criticism of the corporatist welfare state that’s dragging Europe under. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Why Have Europe’s Economies Flatlined Since 2008? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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