We'll do some economic tea leaf reading, we'll talk lumber, and we'll talk Florida history

after Ian.

From American public media, this is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kai.

Rizdole is Monday.

Today, this one is the 7th of November.

It is always to have you along, everybody.

One needs not, I think, actually list the technology companies in this economy that have

announced layoffs or hiring freezes the past number of months to be able to make this

point.

Things ain't great in tech.

One need not, but one will.

Stripe, lift, meta's looking at layoffs this week we're told.

There is whatever is going on at Twitter, but look, it is possible to put too much emphasis

on one particular industry, one specific slice of this economy as a bellweather.

So Marketplace's Kristen Schwab got the, hey, could you make that sense of this for us?

Assignment today.

Remember that time a couple of years ago when the world shut down and a lot of us spent

a lot of time hiding from a deadly virus and we turned to social media and video conferencing

and online shopping.

That put all these tech companies behind the April in terms of having enough people in place

to deliver on all the demand.

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