Craig Colburn

This is the best thing you will watch today.

@ericfisher Funny story, I remember a metrologist saying a couple weeks ago that we might be done with 20 degree nights😂.

Feels like we've been in this pattern for 4 months and counting with little interruption Northeast the cold corner and almost everyone else cookin'

.@jonstewart Iran-splains the ramifications of closing the Strait of Hormuz in a way even Trump can understand

I can just TAKE it?!? My goodness, he sounds less and less like an American president.

@GlobeBobRyan For those interested in the full story, as I was, search for this story from the Boston Globe.

@CraigColburn33 Not the full story.

Why are so many blasting SGA when it’s the apparently clueless refs who let him, and others, get away with it? You think players weren’t trying to draw phony fouls 70 years ago?

@CraigColburn33 There’s more to the story than that. You can’t properly explain it all in an X.

@tomkeene I think his name is Scott

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I have been an economists for a very long time. I have always been a little surprised by how some people will talk about recession as a necessary reset or a “cleans.” There is this “let them eat cake” kind of mentality that emerges that somehow a recession is like a fast for a day and healthy. Recessions are painful, especially when accompanied by inflation. I became an economist as a fluke - it was the only class open when I registered & it sounded interesting. I loved the math and the intuitive study of collective human behavior. It gave me an understanding for the train wreck of an economy I experienced growing up in the modest suburbs of Detroit as a kid. My best friend’s dad died of cancer when I we were in high school. She stopped bringing lunch to school - there was no money for food. Her family dug up their backyard to plant a garden & put food on the table. Her yard was bigger than the postage stamp of my own, but the ground was toxic. Many of her siblings died of cancer very young. I still remember the smell of baked bread - it was the only bread they could afford. My mom, who was on her own tight budget, gave me money to buy her lunch each day. Stagflation and recession were brutal. The scarring effects of all those years ago linger. Families broke down & vicious cycles of poverty emerged in towns that became known as the Rust Belt for their rusting factories. Recessions are ugly, unpredictable and leave a scar. Those accompanied by inflation are worse. The economy is not a single body that can be fit from a “cleans,” as I have so often heard in my career. It is a complex system that has increasingly seen inequality worsen in the wake of recessions. Income inequality hit a low as measured by the Gini coefficient in 1979 in the US. We have been seeing a rise in inequality ever since, with more sidelined for long periods after recessions, with perhaps the brief surge in hiring we saw in the wake of the pandemic. That is over. We are already flirting with a payroll recession, which is showing up as losses in payroll employment. I would like to believe that rate cuts could cure what ails us, but I fear what we are enduring is systemic. Lower interest rates cannot spur hiring with firms dealing with so much uncertainty. That means the Fed should focus more on inflation. I hate to think of what a recession to derail the inflation we are enduring would look like, although I think about it a lot. It is not pretty. The economy is about people’s lives and livelihoods. It is what you deal with when you walk in your front door if you have one to walk through. It is worrying about feeding and sheltering your kids. It is about all the choices we make every day. It is a living organism that does not do better when pain is broader. I will never say a recession is good. Recessions are hard. We may have to suffer one to derail inflation - I hope not but worry that may end up being the case. That is a horrible place to be. Food for thought. I have seen talking heads talk about a recession with a cavalier attitude. I find that hard to witness. The tails risks of recessions are large. They hurt people. Break bread not ties. Empathy is a gift to few share. Time to fill our cups with it.

@chat_turd @sciencegirl

@sciencegirl Vaccines are good for you.

“My son’s on a snorkeling trip today. That’s an excursion.” Stephanie Ruhle blasts Trump for calling his war with Iran an “excursion”.

@sugruejohn @JackMac As I remember in that Parish deal, all started trading Bob McAdoo for Det first round pick. Swapped that with SF for 00 and the pick for McHale.

@JackMac Here we go. NBA started 5 minutes ago. I dunno. Celtics got Robert Parish from GSW for JoBarry Carroll. Celtics traded KG, Pierce, & more for Picks that got them Tatum, Brown, and Irving. Traded the overall 1 to Philly, took Tatum third, and got another 1st.

Derrick White to the Celtics has to be the best trade in NBA history, right?

@Kay_Breezy22 @tomecurran Entitlement, we just finished a Pats season where entitlement, as in no more, was key. Can’t talk to a ref like JB did no matter if #1 or #12, you’re gone.

Sad day today. The Framingham Bakery will be closing at the end of the month. I grew up on their Pizza. There's nothing like it. I had to get a couple trays one last time. Thanks for the memories!!!

@EricBalchunas @stevehou If it were “only” Iran maybe but when you add tariffs, Epstein, Venezuela, blowing up boats in Pacific and Caribbean, more Epstein, ICE, Kristi, Greenland and that’s just the past month! Not a bear but 12-18%

@stevehou I’d be willing to bet sushi lunch we only get garden variety correction at worst, say 10% or less.

The stock market is starting to give me 1929 vibes tbh.

@WDX2BB @AlTheBoss03 I got a like from Gary Carter for Tillman!

@CraigColburn33 @AlTheBoss03 Or Jim Pagliaroni and Russ Nixon ...

Let’s test your baseball timeline. Without saying your age, who was the catcher on your favorite team when you first started watching? ⚾️

@WDX2BB @AlTheBoss03 Ha, Pag was just before I got into the Sox but was a key in bringing my all time favorite to Boston, the one and only Dick Stuart.

@Brendan_Egan_ @michaelscherer Anti war decades before Forrest Gump.

@michaelscherer All because of Forest Gump

Does no one read the lyrics?