We may well be on the front end of a recession, as the economic storm clouds darken even more and that's the subject of the riff. With today's terrible jobs report and another big smackdown of stocks, it certainly looks like the U.S. economy is standing on the front-end of a recession. The economic storm clouds continue to darken. Recession indicators are proliferating. Here's one: the unemployment rate has moved up to 4.3% from its low of 3.4…