Ugly sweaters. On the money starts now. We begin with robo calls, you won a free cruise, increase your credit limit. If youve gotten one of these calls, youre not alone. Every month 150,000 consumers complain about robo calls. What can be done to stop them. This is an amazing opportunity. Sound familiar . Robo calls make up an estimated 35 of all calls placed in the united states. Telemarketing fraud costs millions a yearment 220 million calls have been started to the list since it started in 2003 and yet the threat of fines, many ignore the list. And with new internet technology, robo call operators can make millions of calls cheaply. Many originate overseas and spoof or fake the number on caller i. D. Making it harder for Law Enforcement to catch the cal lers and for you to tell youre getting a call in the first place. Experts say, if you receive a robo call, just hang up. Responding in any way lets the scammers know theyve reached a real person. And report it on the do not call list. More than 220 million phone numbers are on the do not call list and the number of calls rise every year. Why is this problem getting worse and what can consumers do to keep them at bay . Joining me is the consumer man, brad herman, a company that facilitates robo calls. Thank you for being here today. Youre welcome. Thank you, guys. Brad, i want to start with you because i have to admit the robo calls drive me crazy. At times im ready to rip my phone out of the wall at home. Why do you think this is a legitimate business and what can people do to protect themselves . Theres five types of businesses and organizations using us. The first would be schools. The second would be employers. So maybe an employer is trying to fill a lastminute overtime shift on the weekend and needs to reach out to their employees. We have lots of churches, nonprofit organizations that you may be a member of. Would you be calling me from the red cross if i had never given money to the red cross . No. No. So everyone that a company like mine calls, you need to have given them their phone number and they need to be calling you with informational messages that are not proportional in any way. It sounds like brad is one of the decent players in the entire pool. I cant tell you how many calls i get. Why is the do not call registry still not working at this point . It does work in general for legitimate telemarketers. The problem is, the calls that most people are complaining about are from scammers that use it as a way to get into your house by using the telephone. Even if youre not on the do not call list on your land line phone, you can get a robo call for a charity, for a survey or even a political robo call. Its telemarketing robo calls prohibited on land line falls, its all row bow calls without previous permission on cell phones. I know there was legislation passed, a movement to try and tell the phone companies that i should have the power to block these unsolicited calls and i should be able to do it automatically myself. The phone companies have been dragging their feet. Why do you think that is . These companies insist that they dont want to invest the money to make it work on their Land Line Services because they are going to expand the money to the internet in the future and dont want to invest the money in doing this right now. If its 35 of all calls coming in, are the phone Companies Making a profit on this . Theres two problems with Call Blocking technology. It certainly is a part of the solution. But the first problem is that there are good calls that do need to get through, especially in emergencies. The second problem is that, lets say, for example, the really bad guys were talking about overseas and frankly dont care what laws we pass. They are making today, lets say, a million calls and they are going to make them with an irs caller i. D. Or a banks caller i. D. As we get better and implement more Call Blocking technology, they are going to make the same million calls with a million different caller i. D. S. They will get past the Call Blocking technology. Thats an argument to continue to fight against us. I have to tell you, even if this blocked out every call coming from your company, id be okay with that, too. Because if i find out about a school closing, it comes on an email or text anyway. Technology is moving past the point where anything you have is something i care about. Understood. Theres certain situations where theres timesensitive matters and a lot of people arent checking their email every five minutes like you and i may be and they need to get critical information. The problem is, the Call Blocking is part of the issue. The bigger problem to solve is validating a person making the call is actually the owner of that caller i. D. Or has permission to make calls from caller i. D. , and that combined with Call Blocking can really make an impact on this. I think thats ultimately the biggest problem, is that someone overseas can make calls with a banks telephone number and thats crazy and the Underlying Technology we need to focus on improving and get the carriers and telephone any infrastructure to improve so we can solve this once and for auchlt gentlemen, thank you. I appreciate it. Its an issue that drives me nuts but i appreciate both of your time today. Happy to help. Heres a look at what is making news as we head into a new week on the money. The Federal Reserve spoke and the stock market shuddered. The janet yellenled fed left the door wide open for a rate increase in either june or july if the economy continues to improve. That seemed to catch the markets by surprise. Traders didnt like the idea of the hike. The dow tumbling during the week. Stocks rebounded on friday. Inflation may be starting to creep into the economy. Consumer price index, a measure of retail inflation, climbed at the fastest pace in more than 3 years in part because gasoline prices jumped. Amazon has a new weapon in it is bid to rule the retail world and will rule out new lines of private label brands and perishable goods. They could start appearing as early as june. Up next, were on the money. Hes an oscarwinning producer. On the power of curiosity and how when he was first starting out in the business he made it in to meet warren beaty. And want a summer job . How your high school can land the perfect job. Take a look at how the stock market ended the week as we head to break. Curiosity may have killed the cat but led one Oscarwinning Hollywood producer to an incredibly successful career. Brians movies and Television Series have been nominated for an amazing 43 Academy Wards and 158 emmys. His book is called a curious mind the secret to a bigger life. When i spoke to him recently, i asked how he began what he calls curiosity conversations. For 35 years, once every two weeks i will go meet someone thats expert in anything other than entertainment. So science, medicine, politics, religion. So i would have these curiosity conversations where just a total Engagement Process where you really are steadying the other person and expanding your mind and your emotionality when youre in these conversations and i always had faith that each one of these conversations, they didnt have to have an agenda but that they represented some dot in a greater constellation of other dots and some day they would connect. When you enter into these conversations, do you know how these dots will connect . I have no idea. All i do is homework with no agenda. One thing that is so amazing about this is something that you developed at the very beginning of your career. Its how you got into this career. It really is. What happened . I graduated college, got accepted to law school and also got a job as a law clerk. But it just happened to be at warner brothers. I asked a lot of questions in my little cubicle of people and then eventually there was a Senior Vice President at Business Affairs that was fired and i said to my boss, do you think i can use his office . He said, sure, go ahead. So i used it. I actually inhabited it. This man had two secretaries which i inherited. Every single day i would call out to somebody that was really getting something done at the time in show business. That was my beginning. And i got to meet with Lew Wasserman. Some of the greatest directors. When you started as a law clerk, you said you couldnt handle the papers so you met Lew Wasserman or warren beaty. They said, can you hand the papers and i said i have to hand them to mr. Beaty directly. They said, that doesnt make sense. I said, they are not valid unless i hand them directly to mr. Beaty and that worked. So that turned into that little moment with warren beaty turned into 40 minutes sipping espressos in his dining room. Youve had great partnerships along the way, including with ron howard. For sure. Youve done so many amazing movies with. You won best picture with him for a beautiful mind. Does he approach curiosity the way you do . No. Hes so different. So lets say, a beautiful mind, i would have the idea to do that and i would know how the story could work, you know, in terms of creating a first person subjective experience and i can understand that stuff and alternate realities and present all of that to ron howard and he will have the patience to spend 8 to 10 to 12 hours thinking about it and digging really deep. Like a ying and yang . Very much so. You have one of the most interesting and cool hairstyles out there. Why . In hollywood, everyone has a distinctive look. I didnt. I cant grow facial hair. I dont have a bad temper, so i didnt throw things at people and i always wanted to be distinguished. So i popped my hair up in front of my daughter sage. She was like 3 years old. And she said, oh, i like that, dad. And i just went into the bathroom and said, lets do it and that became it. It became a hairstyle. I love it. Thank you so much for your time. Great. I truly appreciate it. Again, the book is called a curious mind. Check it out. Up next on the money, are you sick and tired of buying stuff only to have it break a few months later . One woman had enough and now shes doing something about it. And later, why its always sweater season at this san diego startup. Ge, your skin never wil. With olay you age less, so youre ageless. Olay. Ageless. Josh, dont you have fryeah, so . Ng over . It stinks in here. 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I was given one of these wonderful pots, an heirloom item built to last and it made me think that if we all started changing our habits and shifting over to buying things that were lasting a lifetime rather than constantly rebuying the same things that broke, then it would be incredibly beneficial to the environment and wed all save money in the long run. Its a message that resonates, probably. Absolutely. The response from people coming to the website has been fantastic. Ive had emails from all over the world saying, keep going, this is what the world needs and its really a shift that has to happen before we run out of resources. How do you figure out whats good, how do you come up with an idea, okay, this was not necessarily something id put my stamp on . How are you doing it . We do a lot of research, spend a lot of time looking into the products and we have very specific criteria. We look into how the product is made and what its made of. We look into product reviews. The customers tell us whether things last long or not. Youre not directly making money on this. The manufacturers dont pay you . No. How do you make money . We dont take any money to put something on the website because our integrity is key and we have to make the choice of what we think is the best in show in terms of longevity. We make money by putting people forward to a website where they can buy their product themselves. And then you get some portion back from that . Thats correct. Yeah. So lets talk about some of the products that you found. The la crew set pot that you mentioned is one of the items. Then you have some socks here, too. Yeah. These socks are incredible. When i found these socks, im like, this website will work. If i can find sox with a lifetime guarantee, i can find something thats going to be built. I need a lifetime guarantee for a sock . They are just made in an incredible way. If youre not happy with them, they have an address that you can send them back to. And then you have this pen. Made from nasa. Made for astronauts. This particular pen, it has enough ink in it to last the average person a lifetime, which is just incredible. Its all pressurized in there. Seriously . Seriously. Just have one. Yeah. Tara, thank you for coming in today. No worries. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Up next on the money, a look at the news for the week ahead. Beach weather will be here before you know it. If your teen wants a hot summer job, now is the time to look. Plus, how two friends turned ugly sweaters into a very attractive business. In your. You think it smells fine, but your passengers smell this. {ding} eliminate odors youve gone nose blind too, for up to 30 days with the febreze car vent clip. Wow, it smells good in here. So you and your passengers can breathe happy. For more on our show and on our guests, go to our website otm. Com and follow us on twitter onthemoney. On tuesday, well be getting a look at new home sales for april. And a long time ago at a theater not so far away, the galaxy was introduced. Luke skywalker, hans solo. Thats when star wars was released in theaters back in 1977. On thursday well get durable sales for april and pending home sales for last month, on friday, a second read at the First Quarter gdp. And get this, hey, hey, its the monkeys. They will release their first album in 20 years. School may still be in session, but for teens thinking about getting a summer job, hourly employers say they will fill their positions by the end of this month. Joining us with tips on how teens can score a great summer gig is senior financial correspondent sharon epperson. Why dont we start off with some of the basics, things like, are there limits on what teens can do . Are there certain positions they cant take . Im learning about this firsthand because i have a 14yearold so he now has his working permit so hes able to look for a summer job. Hes starting young. Thats great. Thats how young you can start. Between 14 and 15 years old, you can get a job at any kind of nonhazardous job. Not in manufacturing, not in construction, you can only work eight hours a day, 40 days a week but you can get a decent summer job. 16 to 17yearolds, they have to work in nonhazardous conditions but they can work at any job that is there for you. What does the market look like, if youre looking for a summer job, is this a good time to be looking for a job or not . Its a great time to be looking. A lot of Companies Say they will have their employees set by the end of the month. So theyre really looking right now. I mean the job market overall . Its doing very well and youre getting paid more. Thats what is really significant for a lot of these kids that want to make a nice amount of money over the summer. About two years ago, the average wage was 10 an hour and now its closer to 13 an hour. Its tough. If youre looking at the Unemployment Rate for teens, its a much higher rate than for everybody else. Its a significantly higher rate so it makes it really important that teens focus on what they need to do to get this job just like anyone else would have to do because they are going to be competing against older workers, too, for these positions. But whats really key is to make sure that you show that youre available for this job when it needs to happen and that you can get there. The location of the job is key for teens because a 14yearold, like in my case, we have to be driven to the job. The other thing to think about is what time of day can you work . Can you work the hours that they want . Can you be flexible which is what they really want. What all employers want, no matter how old you are, they want you to have a good attitude and prove that you want to be there by asking Great Questions in the interview and showing once youre there that youre dedicated to the job. Great tips. Sharon, thank you. One was a dentist, the other a lawyer. Now they run a Successful Company that has nothing to do with either cavities or the courtroom. Jane wells has the story of their strange success. Reporter evan mendleson hated his job. I was doing corporate law. So contracts, due diligence. Pretty exciting stuff. You can tell how excited i am talking about it. Reporter so he started studying computer searches and in 2011 he discovered that ugly christmas sweaters were hot. And it just kind of was a light bulb moment. Theres a ton of search for this and no one is selling them right now. Reporter he called his best friend and former College Roommate nick morton. Morton was a dentist specializing in root canals. They created a Company Called tipsy elf. It was over 100,000 we put in. We didnt know anything about making an ecommerce website or shipping or fulfillment. So what happened . We sold about 5,000 sweaters and it was about 400,000 in sales. I quit my job based on our first year in sales. What did your parents say . My mom said my dad was eating soup and he spit it out. I dont think he was too happy about it at the time. Reporter hes probably happy now. Tipsy elf got an i