Why you need to care about climate change even if you don’t (want to) believe it — Four months ago, my wife and I realized a years’-long dream to relocate to New England from our beloved home state of California where I’ve lived essentially all my life, and my wife, since her emigration from Romania some twenty years ago. I was fortunate enough to grow up and…

When (seemingly) anticompetitive tactics increase social utility and benefit consumers — Copyright © 2022 Marc Hoag. All Rights Reserved. Not for copy or duplication, in whole or in part, without express written permission by the author Marc Hoag. Quotations allowed with full citation and link back to this article. Author’s note, July 2022 I wrote this research paper in November 2007…

Why the elimination of women’s most fundamental right is a reduction of all our rights, and shouldn’t even be questioned in the first place — I was one of those geeks in law school who actually loved law: I loved both the academics behind the law — I truly enjoyed law school — as well as the profound social impacts of our legal system. When the Great Recession of 2008 tragically scuttled all my law…

Every time I vote, I try to wrap my head around how We the People are expected to make informed, educated voting decisions not just regarding the presidency, but on state and local issues too. I try to educate myself as well as possible from the most legitimate, unbiased, academically-verified…

Twitter and Square both announced recently that henceforth, their employees may work from home… forever. Meanwhile, Facebook is effectively full-time WFH until 2021 (except, tentatively anyway, July 6 for those who need to be in the office); Google is on full WFH status until, somewhat weirdly, NYE 2021; and Microsoft…

Last week, we discussed how COVID-19 could put autonomous (and electric) vehicles in the fast-track lane for testing and full revenue deployment. Now we’ll discuss how COVID-19 could amplify the already profound impacts that autonomous vehicles will have on urban development and the real estate market generally. Spoiler alert: The…

Point 1: Autonomous vehicles need more testing (obviously) It is indisputable that autonomous vehicles (AVs) need adequate testing before going mainstream. Also undisputed is that testing is nowhere near where it needs to be. Fortunately, we’re now in the COVID-19 era where streets, boulevards, and freeways around the world are experiencing 30–50% reductions in traffic, and in some…