something that hits really deeply close to home. if we re not heading towards a recession, why all the layoffs by these big companies? look, these are big companies and we have tech reporters and interesting to talk about and make great water cooler conversation, but honestly they re not much when you think about compared to the u.s. labor market as a whole so i think you just reeled off about 50,000 job spragues there. let me tell you, in a typical month in the united states, roughly 6 million people separate from their employers. this is the natural state of an economy. some people are getting jobs, some people are losing jobs and what normally happens is all that is going on and what s happening is they are in big headline making companies. let me ask a question, do you think we can learn a lot from the twitter layoffs about the state of economy or maybe something about a billionaire and his mood as it flukt waits day to day.