new rubbermaid ceo, michael pope, will be with us in minutes.rgy efficiency and connected smart home with an executive from reid, maker of heating and coming systems. look at the back -- take a look back at the price of homes in 1995. that's the year "squawk box" started. new home at that point cost over $100,000, and average rent was less than $600, and 30-year mortgage rate was 7.5%. hard to even remember that. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back, back to the conversation on the home of the future, a company that makes many product goods, the consumer goods that fill the home, from blinds to pots and pans and rubbermaid storage containers for everything. let's welcome michael polk, ceo of rubbermaid, ceo in 2011, before that, holding roles at kraft, and he has 30 brands in the products sold in more than 100 countries. welcome, michael. great to see you. >> thanks, becky. >> talk about innovations, things are constantly changing with you. >> sure. >> but at the same time, products do not look different from what is in my kitchen or what my mo