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Silicon Valley's recession rebound: Optimism or Arrogance?
The latest unemployment figures are in for Santa Clara County, California - aka Silicon Valley - and it doesn't look good: 11.8 percent in the county is among the highest in the entire San Francisco Bay Area region.
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The latest unemployment figures are in for Santa Clara County, California - aka Silicon Valley - and it doesn't look good: 11.8 percent in the county is among the highest in the entire San Francisco Bay Area region.
Still, reporting from the front lines here, I can say that the doom-and-gloom is not filling the air. Instead, there's a hint of Silicon Valley optimism in the air, the feeling that good things are in the future and that these tough times won't last forever.