Grab your cardigans, take out your boxing gloves and get your disco on — 2024 has loads of new trends in store, according to a Pinterest predictions report.
Why it matters: With a new year comes new fads and fascinations, and this year'semerging trends in music, fashion, sports and hobbies have something in store for each generation.
It's the only generation born fully in the 21st century: the oldest are about 13, and the youngest will be born in the coming year.
The big picture: EnterGeneration Alpha, the first entirely online cohort. Its members have grappled with a climate crisis and pandemic — and can spend money more easily at their age than even their savviest close elders.
Stocks have soared under President Biden, although not by quite as much as they had at the same point in former President Trump's term.
Why it matters: Voters often feel like stock market performance is a gauge of America's economic health, and of presidential policy, even if most economists would disagree.