http://seattlest.com/2009/02/27/extra_extra_unemployment_leads_to.php All comments for With News Like This, It Must Be Friday en-us 2009 seattle_jeremy2 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:30:00 -0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss jeremy.m.barker@gmail.com jeremy.m.barker@gmail.com 60 http://seattlest.com/2009/02/27/extra_extra_unemployment_leads_to.php#comment-1600342 http://seattlest.com/2009/02/27/extra_extra_unemployment_leads_to.php#comment-1600342 Comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:16:04 -0800 <p>Back during the dot-com meltdown of the early '00s, I lived in San Francisco and worked in Cupertino. The traffic was a great barometer of business conditions. First, it actually got WORSE as lots of people stopped traveling for work and were commuting instead, and then the traffic dropped off precipitously. I haven't seen traffic drop off here yet, though.</p>