Transcripts For FBC MONEY With Melissa Francis 20140107

Over 180 Million People have gone into some form of hibernation just to escape it but some businesses believe it or not are actually doing better in the vortex. We salute them. Joining us a local Restaurant Owner in chicago. He will tell us a little more. We have fox newss Garrett Tenney braving the cold as well. George, get right to it. I love youre turning the freezing weather into cold hard cash. Tell us about the business and why the cold is helping you. We are exploding. Were doing all deliveries all day until 10 00 at night. People just stay home and call us and to deliver their food. Melissa have you hired extra delivery people and are they absolutely furious with you youre sending them out to deliver food in the freezing cold . Theyre not furious. Theyre making money. But i did hire three more guys. To accommodate our business. Melissa do you have to pay them extra . What do you do to convince them to go . No. Tips are paying themselves. Theyre doing pretty good with tips. Melissa how much more would you say youre making through the cold weather . How much of a boom is it for you . Our deliveries werent up about 60 . Melissa wow. What does that represent for you about . Couple thousand dollars more a day. Melissa nice. Do you, and now are you concerned about your employees at all . What are you doing to help them kind of stay warm through all of this . Theyre pretty much prepared with the, with the temperatures. They change clothes. They try to warm up wherever they can but theyre hustling. Theyre running out there. Melissa are there other restaurants in the area that are picking up on this and doing the same thing . I dont know. I dont know if they can keep up with it. It is pretty bad out here. Melissa pretty bad out there. Where youre standing right now talking to us but youre getting awesome free advertising, what is the name of your restaurant . Where are you locateed . Choppers at 1659 north ashland avenue in chicago. Melissa how long do you think you can keep this up before your workers say there is no amount of money that makes it worth it for us to get outside in the cold and deliver . We have a few meteorologists, janice dean out front is frozen as a rock. We have few folks giving up. When do you think your folks will give up on you. Well not give up much well keep going. Melissa no matter what. No matter what. Melissa what kind of food do you serve and how does it survive the cold weather . It travels okay. S, milk shakes. Melissa it is not froze renn by the time you get there. My main concern getting french fries traveling through the cold. They will be potato icicles by the time they get there which is not that delicious. No, theyre not. It travels pretty good. It also does all right. Melissa garrett, are other folks doing the sail thing . Are you guys pretty much the only two guys standing out there in freezing cold weather . Every so often you see somebody walk past. You always kind of exchange a look with each other, what are you doing outside. That is what is going through everyones mind when you see them outside. Not just today, yesterday and the day before. Not a lost foot traffic thats out there. Officials are really asking people to stay home and stay indoors, which you know has been great for george. Melissa i was going to say. Garrett, officials are asking people to stay inside and stay indoors, what did you have to stay to george to convince him to the talk with us . You know, george is telling me, he said things have been so busy, just took him all day to have a chance to come out here to meet with us because they have been so caught up. Surprisingly, melissa, one of the things that is just selling out of the store his suppliers cant keep up with is milk shakes. Yesterday, 40 degrees with the windchill and theyre selling out of milk shakes. Melissa that is crazy. Garrett, did you have a milkshake . Are you considering that right now. No. I can hardly feel my feet after two days outside. Milk shake sounds like worst thing in the world. Anything cold is bad. Melissa unless it had vodka in it or something. Im not sure a milk shake would be best idea right now. Garrett, how long will it last where you are . In new york theyre saying almost done with this. Today it did. We reached above zero degrees. First time in almost two days that happened, negative, with the wind chills that is continuing. It is about negative 20 with those windchills. That is expected to continue really throughout today. It is an improvement. Yesterday we were at negative 40s, negative 50s in the windchill. It is better but negative 20, still feels miserable. Melissa garrett before i let you go pack inside and regain feeling in your fingers, i see people Walking Around behind you. They keep passing hyped you. What are folks doing out and about if theyre not on Live Television . What are they doing outside . Some people did have to go to work today. Officials said, stay at home if you can. Some people have had to come through. The car traffic is well behind us. That picked up a little bit throughout as well. Were getting ready to hit rush hour. So were seeing more of it. For the most part, this is not what you see on a monday or, sorry, tuesday, losing track of my days now. Tuesday around rush hour. Melissa he is getting incoherent. Well have to let you go inside because youre getting incoherent. Thanks to both of you joining us. Much george, we salute, getting out into the cold and turning into cold hard cash. The show is called money. Youre making it in spite of weather. Good for you. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Melissa theyre not only ones suffering. Check out this guy. This is escaped convict. He turned himself in when icy cold became too much. His name is robert vick. Escaped from a facility in lexington. Spent all the work, walked into a hotel lobby to ask him to call police to take him back to jail. He wanted to get out of cold conditions. I dont really blame him. If you escaped once you probably can do it again, right . Speaking of cold weather is the polar vortex making you fat . January is a peak time for gym. Tons of people giving up on new years resolutions . Are you watching it from the gym or from the sofa avoiding the gym . It is costing everyone a lot of money. Well have shocking dollars and cents in spare change. Stick around for that as well. Jetblue has passengers seeing red after countrywide delays that lasted 1 hours. The line is like about 3 1 2 hours long, just to book another flight. It has been horrible. Ive been trying to fly out since thursday. Been waiting in line two hours, they tell you youre in the wrong line. Melissa do you think twice flying jetblue . Im taking jetblue coming up. Let me know if im doomed and what you think. 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Melissa on the show last week we told our viewers about this new rule going into effect which said pilots had to time out. They had to spend more time sleeping and some airlines were prepared and hired more people and some airlines didnt. Is this disaster with jetblue prove they were not prepared . I think jetblue by now in a little bit after precarious situation. First of all, they did say, the spokeeperson for jetblue said, its a delicate situation balancing all these flight delays and flight cans he islations. I think jetblue is struggling a bit right now. First of all you have all these cancellations aad theyre having to deal with that. Then heavy now kind of speculated on the new faa rule and they have said, as they have been struggling with actually staffing and getting, you know, the cabin crews to turn around. Getting pie loots, you know, to get back in the air. So i think jetblue is in a bit of a melissa absolutely. When you listen to passengers out there and stranded, they said, they sat there hour after hour in the airport. They looked at the board, everything from jetblue was canceled. Everybody else was taking off. So they tried to blame the with every. Why is it only this one airline . That is really when it came to everyones attention, they were facing something special. I mean, should this i have flights coming up on jetblue. I bought tickets three days ago. Should i be nervous about this airline in the near term . I think that the thing is, jetblue definitely said it would take them a couple days to get it all sorted, get everyone on back on track. I think jetblue has made some definite headway and they definitely made the news because of the fact they have been talking about the new faa rule and how that has affected their operation. I think the reality is the fact that there have been thousands and thousands of flights across the country and i really definitely feel for passengers that are sitting at the airport. It is a really trying time and melissa if they dont have enough pilots, that is not a quick fix. That is not something they will take a day to organize. Unless, i dont know, can you hire a bunch of pilots overnight . Doesnt seem like that is possible . I definitely wouldnt recommend it. I think they have had two years to kind of plan and put a contingency plan which i believe they have. I just think the sad reality when these emergency situations happen, which is to some degree unforeseen but were considering it is january and we all know there is normally horrendous snowstorms in the northeast so they probably could have handled it better. Melissa it is not happening to anyone else. The statement they put out, were facing additional challenges, new faa rules went into effect for crew rest. These rules affect our ability to operate in already disrupted schedule. Of every other airline is dealing with faa rules and every other airline is dealing with the weather but jetblue is having special problems. How long does it take them to fix it . If they get back in line, do i trust pilots they suddenly got to fly for them if they hired new people . I dont think they will hire brand new people right off the bat. I can tell you that. Keep in mind, jetblue has a bit after epic fail this week. Ultimately the faa rule was in effect. They got two years to do it. The point is, reason faa put it in they want us to be safe. Ultimately its a tough situation. And it is really something, you know, we feel for the passengers and yet we want to make sure were all safe. You want to land properly and not get off the airline. Melissa thank you so much. Thank you so much for having me. Melissa today the senate voted to move forward on a bill that would reinstate expired jobless benefits that would millions of americans lost last month. One senator said it is good for the economy. One economist said it is a cruel hoax on the poor. Joining me to explain university of maryland economist, peter morici. Peter, love having you on the show. Why would this be a cruel hoax on the poor . Were essentially creating a permanent entitlement by extending and reextending 55 months into the recovery. The way the government provides permanent funding for Unemployment Insurance is a payroll tax which caps out at 12,000 across the states. If this becomes a permanent deal, we will basically tax those 7. 25s an hour workers. Melissa but were not talking about it being permanent. Theyre just extending it one more time . I think were getting to that point, the kind of argument theyre making is that this recovery is unusual. It is anemic. It is knot providing enough jobses. Do you honestly think they extend it three more months conditions will be much better for those folks come april . I dont think so. Melissa what do they do . They keep extending it and extending it . Well the, also the republicans in the house are going demand funding for it. Do you know anything democrats on senate side are willing to cut . Any entitlement theyre trimming back to pay 25 billion a year for this . No. The way the government handles extended Unemployment Benefits when it decides to actually fund them is by increasing the payroll tax. And the payroll tax caps out at an average of 12,000 across the states. Which means that it falls predominantly on the poor. Now a lot of people that are collecting these benefits and collect maximum benefits are middle class folks who dont wan to adjust their circumstances. Take a job waiting tables. Melissa interesting. I saw a study recently that said, you know, that the number of hours that people spend looking for work increases threefold in the past two weeks before their jobless benefits run out. Do you think thats true . Because when we, it feels cruel when you say you want to take away Unemployment Benefits from people that are out of work but does it extend the problem . It certainly does. In fact, there are two effects. One is people put off looking for a job in the manner you just described but also the higher costs of these Unemployment Benefits are causing employers to add fewers workers. The National Bureau of economic research, you might not be familiar with them, but theyre a mainstream melissa i sure am. Know exactly who it is. Please, come on, peter. I met the viewers. This is a wonky economist thing. Theyre basically a mainstream, middle of the road group, not known to be a bunch of conservatives. In fact a lot of people that write for them come from liberal universities up in the northeast. They have found that the majority of the additional unemployment caused by the Great Recession has been because by extending Unemployment Benefits. There you go. Melissa absolutely. Where does the funding come from right now as we say today sitting here and extending it . Where does the money come from . Either they find the money cutting spending someplace else or borrow more. If they find money by cutting spending somewhere else it will be a drag on economy. When the government is appropriated a dollar it spends the whole dollar. When the unemployed get a dollar they dont spend it all. Some of it they use to buy down their debt. They pay off credit cards and things like that. So it is actually a drag on the economy, if you take it from someplace else in the budget. Melissa but they will not do that knowing those guys. They never take anything from someplace else. They borrow more money. Well see what the house does. Certainly the senate likes to borrow money. The senate thinks money doesnt grow on trees but falls from the sky when ben bernanke sneezes. Now janet yellen. Mr. Boehner said, you want to extend it, thats fine. Where is the funding . Lets see what the house does. Melissa peter morici, thanks very much. Love having you on. Take care. Melissa ultimate feeling of dread. The anxiety you feel whenever you leave the house without your phone. It is reallife 21st century condition. Not only that, there are a host of other modern day ailments linked to technology that keep us awake at night . Like text claw. Do you have text claw . You can imagine what that means. Are you suffering from any of them . You have to watch this. Tweet me. Tell me what you think. Get more text claw by tweeting me and telling me what you think. Do you ever have too much money . 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Take the energy quiz. So ally bank really has no hidden fees on savings account. Its just that m worried about, you know, hidden things. Ok, whys that . Well uhhh. Surprise um. Well, its true. At ally there are no hidden fees. Not one. Ths nice. No hidden fees, no worries. Ally bank. Your money needs an ally. Melissa have you ever found yourself suffering from a wicked case of text claw . Text claw . Is this ruining your life. If so you are not alone. Smartphone related ailments becoming more increasingly common but down make them any less ridiculous. It is todays money talker. We confiscated everyones cell phone, we have elizabeth lang, michael gelb and our very own dennis kneale. Do you have text claw . Do it like this. I feel it here. I worried it is arthritis because im a little older. You are not joking. I was joking but you are not joking. I have text claw. That phobia when you lose your cell phone and fear being without it. Phantom buzzing as well. Melissa you havent really lost it. You left it on the desk while you went to get water. Under a stack of papers. Melissa youre like, in cold sweats because you cant even take it. Yes. Melissa is this crazy. It is crazy but its true. I think it is sort of looking at all Mental Illnesses in the dsm you have a little bit of all of them it means youre sort of normal. Melissa is dennis normal or has he lot of them what you said . I think youre totally normal. Apparently she is underqualified. Funny how, we used to feel emotionally connected to other people and fear being alone. Now this emotional connection is toward devices. Look at new movie, her. Melissa there is a whole movie about it. Doctor, what do you think . Youre a sleep disorder specialist. I hear about people all the time, all the tile, i hear about people, im not sure it is true, texting in their sleep. Is this a real problem. There is no disconnect between being awake and asleep. So lines are blurred. Kids fall asleep with the phone in their hand. They bet pinged, texted, binged, they wake up. They dont know what theyre texting and disrupting sleep. They wake up in the morning and exhausted and not sure why. Melissa could see dennis do it. Do you fall asleep clutching your phone. I do. You get a tweet at 4 00 in the morning from hawaii or something. You wake up actually reading it. You dont even remember that. As opposed to rsi, repetitive strain injury type stuff, the thing i worry about our addiction to the smartphones and tablets it is changing our brains. Read shallows by nicholas carr. Scientific proof shows brain for changing, to deep reading and synthesize an analyze because were so ad. Did going to the next new headline, were using no depth and changing our brains. Melissa is that true, liz . Youre a behavioral scientist. You know about this. Is that true . I think it is really interesting to see the way now our phones have become so addictive, when you look at studies actually, you see that it is as addictive as sugar and cocaine. Melissa my phone is ad as addictive as cocaine. Dopamine squirt to the brain when you hear the little most americans, i mean a third of americans would rather go a weekend without their phones than, weekend without sex than without phones. That is just wrong. That is really wrong. Melissa im not sure i want to head down that road. That is very scary much. Dennis, i sort of hate to transition to you from that. Thanks a whole lot. Melissa how long can you go without your phone and certainly couldnt do it . Today show dared a full week. Melissa another network. Whatever. Full week without any blackberries cell phones. I lasted 40 hours. Melissa thats it . I did have phantom rings much as much as i thought these gadgets divide us, they really also though link us. It is how you stay in touch with daughter if youre divorced parent out of town and you text back and forth. I was doing all weekend when she was in subzero minneapolis. These gadgets are not all bad but they link us as they isolate us. Melissa you argued both sides. Ruining your brain but at the same time bringing closer to your family. Is it worth ruining your brain to bring you closer to your family . That is whole conversation is just insane. It is not insane because the kids are getting more adhd. Theyre not getting sleep. Not thinking well. All goes back to sleep. We have to get melissa rule in our house, no electronics in kids bedroom. Ever. Great idea. Shut it off. I hope to enforce that rule with my 13yearold daughter when theyre 16. Melissa es now when theyre little. Harder when they are older. Would you stay and talk with the guys, give them help. Give them a consult. Melissa go out to the green room. Coming up one ceo made a Million Dollars in single day last week. 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Beth we match investors and ushering norris. Melissa compliance, i mean it has doubled in the past week since the opening of this market. How would you tell them . It is excitement. Right now is about excitement, not how we manage anything. No one really expected the overwhelming support in the overwhelming interest from the general public, and the think this, once again, has become very real which is a psychological aspect for a lot of people. Melissa thank you for coming on the show. We appreciated. Good luck to you. And of your stock has been on a tear. Nice to see you. Melissa that etrade baby may not be as as you think. 80 of super bowl products dont help sell the product. This year one and cost a record 4 million. Our companys buying ads that dont resonate with consumers. Here now, to lament that are very knowledgeable about this. I thought this was fascinating because i see these ads, and they may be entertaining, but i wondered to myself, do they sell the product and are they worth it. In a lot of cases he found that there were not. You found it did not it was not worth it and did not sell a product. Right. That was an ad that really sacrificed persuasion for entertainment value. Eightytwo, second commercial. Really easy to get caught up in the story that it does not revolve around the brand. In that case they joe montana spain became this iconic image that every once locked in to see. And in the life flushes it out with tide. So tied was introduced at the end in a negative and wait. The commercial is not telling me anything that i dont already know, but not telling me anything about it that makes me want to go out and buy it. Melissa and i always feel like it is my getting attention. At the end of the david does not produce sales how is it possibly worth it . The question is whether its produced sales to raise awareness. Melissa it did not produce sales. She went out and looked at it and did the math. That is a question of whether more people would be interested in buying it. Melissa did you ask that question . Did you look into that . In our study we interviewed over 1,000 people will for the super bowl, asked them what brands they were buying in la presse they intended to buy a feature. We went back to those same people and as the end of the same questions about the brands again. This time we compared the responses of those who remembered having seen the commercial with those who have not seen the commercial. We actually saw this change and purchasing or purchase and tension among those who had seen the commercial. This was an example of one of the commercials were we did not see this. An entertaining commercials, but there was no evidence. My study that it helps move to the needle. Melissa tell us what worked periods ahoy. One of the interesting examples to me was the oreos commercial about the whispering fights that occurred in the library, kramer versus turkey, turkey versus creamed. It escalates into these huge battles. It is 30 seconds that are really all about what you love about this product. Then we saw the results of that commercial. People who would not have otherwise gone out and bought orioles ran out and bought oreos. Dummies that build a coherent campaign, cant connected to what the brand is trying to stand for, build bugs ahead of time and continue to communicate after the superbowl, those will be the ones that are most successful. Melissa i am thinking about what was the goat at commentary does. Everyone was talking about the next day. It a lot of people thought it was really funny. It did not sell the product. At that the idea was to have everyone talk about the ad. It does not want to make you by garridos . A study of 1,000 people is not the same as other are not they sold. They sold 500 million worth of stock of well. Watching tacos. Something that is going rate in the brand. Theyre successful. What is interesting about this campaign is it is called a crash of the super bowl. Has been going on for eight years. Consumers reid commercials. What theyre voting for is the commercials that are the most entertaining. This is a campaign about entertaining which is when so much of the super bowl advertising was about, but it doesnt necessarily work as hard to sell the product as a campaign that are not so overwhelming, the entertainment value was actually going to resonate. Melissa you totally disagree. I think is certainly build the brand. Melissa thank you so much. A lot of fun. Up next, is this the game changes that the Auto Industry has been waiting for . A first of its kind sunpowered vehicle with solar cells across the roof. Your car is running and solar power. We are talking to the companys chief technical officer coming up. Dont move. 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The magnifying glass does that need to be in a sunny place . Add all know if you have looked at the weather around the country today, we are freezing to death. How is this getting power . I look at michigan. It is something that you would park under, like, a canopy. The vehicle position is not sensitive to where it is. These kind of average some light , it is not going to work, we have looked at this under average conditions across the country. Again, about eight hours of peace and sunshine, we can get about 20 miles of driving range and to the vehicle. Melissa and understand that this is a concept car and idolater your feelings. It does not strike me as the most compelling way down the road to power a car. I mean, if youre looking for green energy or are trying to get away from fossil fuel it feels to me like it is almost as logical as but resigned when mellon top of my car. Is just, when does it get to the point where you will be able to drive a Long Distance where it is affordable. It just seemed like it is tough to get there. That is a great question. Affordability, practicality, is very clear and everything that we do, but at the same time we have to explore alternatives, for instance delivering a green efficient power trains in the future. Everything from very highly efficient gasoline and vehicle engines for range of hybrids, plug and hybrids, electric vehicles and even looking to of fuel cells. So this is a research project, a concept car, but i think it is the right thing for us to do to explore the alternative sources of energy as a go forward. Melissa we are flashing breaking news. Ford stock right now is up on news that alan is saying he will step the company but not going to microsoft. How do you feel about that . Great news. Melissa what kind of leader has been to the company . She has been a wonderful leader. A technology leader. You know, three or four years, spoken here. Our views and energy. 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Thats why nork has a new plan dozens of tax free zones all across the state. Move here, pand here, or start a new business here and pay no taxes for ten years. Were new york. If theres somethg that creates more jobs, and ows more businesses. re open to it. Start a taxfree business at startupny. Com. Melissa it is time for a little fun with spare change. Bad enough about failing with your new years resolution. They this might make you feel worse. Not only did you not do what you were supposed to, but you spend money to not do it. Consider only 8 percent of people succeed in achieving and new years resolution. That is a lot of money. Today we are joined by our very own charles. You guys make new years resolution . Why was to do as many hits as possible. Melissa mindless exercise less. My enlistee more sleep in 2014, and that still has not happened to. Melissa already you have not got more sleep. Todays into it and get beat after screenings. Melissa i was staying up for those those of, but none of this cost you money. Were really talking about, the top ten. Number one, lose weight. You sign up the program, every paper had come this is the best diet, join this one. Or you join a gym. Number two is getting organized, so you might help someone or go to the organization store and buy tons of scrap the you dont need. You have already spent more with one in two. So what do you think about this . I guess some information about budgeting, and you go on there, organize your money. It. Melissa ready to go . Francis foxbusiness. Com. Melissa okay. They went, these goals, 87,000 met the goals, but they ended up saving melissa how many started . But i mean, the other, youre looking at 8 percent of people stuck with their resolutions. They did save some money. They did save some money. Melissa so we have two separate things. Only one in ten people will stick with their resolution. Should you maybe not spend money or go hora whole hog. This year i am living life to the fullest. How can i live life to the poll listed by not doing anything . Melissa ,. Another way to look at this. A lot of these resolutions are playing is that we know are problematic. Our weight. Melissa yes, quit smoking. Follette love. Be nice to people. Ultimately not doing those things can cost you a heck of a lot more that thousand dollars a year. I absolutely agree with you. And we know this, too. The reason we make this resolution is that more often than not these are things that really bothers us. Melissa that is inspirational. You took it to a spiritual place. Spend more time with your family, number ten. Thats kind of sad. You have to make a resolution to spend much time with their family. Thats making me cry. More people are probably taking those resolutions. Melissa you know what to my good take a nap. Thanks. This is a guilt trip. Melissa exercising more and eating less chocolate. 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The country is cornering the market by taking ownership of most of the words worlds marijuana patterns. More than half of them related to the dogs and apparently none of this is news to the chinese. They have been using marijuana and medicine for thousands of years. And that is all we have for you. I hope that you made money today. Tune in tomorrow to see the olympic bobsled that is going for the gold. Bmw has built one for the u. S. Team. We will be speaking to the men in charge. Set your dvr court money. The willis report is coming up next. Gerri hello, everyone. Tonight on the willis report, sub zero temperatures we have it across the country. Also millionaires on medicaid. And a crackdown on companies peddling weightloss. You are watching the willis report and we are watching out for you tonight