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Today’s The Snark Factor 3 in 3 starts with the market doing what it does best: reacting to one hopeful headline like a dog hearing a treat bag open. Stocks rallied, and oil prices fell on Monday after President Trump hinted the war with Iran could end, even as Iran denied negotiations were happening.
From there, we get into a new survey showing teens now feel more pressure to be online than they do to smoke, vape, or drink — which feels about right for a world where adolescence now includes personal branding, platform management, and pretending you didn’t spend 14 minutes choosing a caption.
And finally, we close on one of my favorite kinds of stories: people getting nostalgic for 2016, which is amazing, because if you actually lived through 2016, it did not exactly feel like a warm bath. It felt more like America had eaten gas-station sushi and was trying to walk it off.
In this episode:Markets rally and oil prices fall on hopes the Iran conflict could cool downTeens feel more pressure to be online than to smoke or drinkPeople are now nostalgic for 2016, which should concern all of us
Sources: AP; survey coverage on teen online pressure; AP
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