Would You Rather: The Hot Card, or the Bargain Card?
Issue #17 | June 25, 2026 This newsletter issue is exclusive to Slabnomics Investor Tier subscribers. ← Back to Comped Investor Archive
Market Intelligence for Trading Cards
Issue #17 | June 25, 2026 This newsletter issue is exclusive to Slabnomics Investor Tier subscribers. ← Back to Comped Investor Archive
Issue #23 | June 20, 2026 Comped The Numbers –Baseball flat on midseason doldrums–Basketball 16 week streak…will offseason break it?–Football really establishing positive momentum–Soccer Lionel Messi is good at futbol–Pokemon 23 consecutive weeks of gains–One Piece wishes it were Pokemon–S&P 500 back to bullish✅–Gold concerning recent weeks–Bitcoin looks like last week was a dead cat … Read more
Released: June 16, 2026 | Duration: 34:07 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode deconstructs the full rainbow of Victor Wembanyama's 2023 Panini Prizm rookie card, number 136, across all 63 parallels, all four major graders, and every grade. The total invested market cap across the rainbow comes in at roughly $138 million, nearly double … Read more
Released: June 9, 2026 | Duration: 15:57 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode of Slabnomics digs into the 1952 Topps Baseball set, often called the most iconic set in the hobby, and asks a brutal question. Out of 10 hand-picked Hall of Famers, how many actually beat the S&P 500 over 22 years of … Read more
Released: June 1, 2026 | Duration: 17:01 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode On June 2nd, PSA stopped taking your cheap cards. Value, Value Bulk, Value Plus, and Value Max all closed at once, with the company citing a 10 million card backlog that it wants down to 5 million in roughly four months. Most of … Read more
Released: May 26, 2026 | Duration: 28:50 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Picture a desert island with three people and one mango tree. Three mangoes a day for three mouths. The harvest never changes much, but the population does, and so does the number of mangoes the hoarder keeps locked in his hut. That is … Read more
Issue #16 | June 18, 2026 This newsletter issue is exclusive to Slabnomics Investor Tier subscribers. ← Back to Comped Investor Archive
Issue #22 | June 13, 2026 Comped The Numbers –Baseball Strong week–Basketball 15 week streak, impressive entry–Football another offseason w–Soccer welcome to The World cup–Pokemon 22 consecutive weeks of gains–One Piece back up on the seesaw–S&P 500 back to bullish?–Gold not looking good–Bitcoin dead cat bounce or dead for now? I’ve been waiting a year … Read more
Issue #15 | June 11, 2026 This newsletter issue is exclusive to Slabnomics Investor Tier subscribers. ← Back to Comped Investor Archive
Issue #21 | June 6, 2026 Comped The Numbers Short Bitcoin/Long Pokemon would crush –Baseball largely unchanged–Basketball 14 week streak, continues impressive movement–Football slight bump–Soccer World Cup in 6 days–Pokemon 21 consecutive weeks of gains–One Piece correcting after big last week–S&P 500 very negative week–Gold ouch–Bitcoin big ouch We’re reaching the mirror point in two … Read more