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Released: August 17, 2025 | Duration: 27:49 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This is a show-your-work episode. The framework is Market, Legacy, and Design. The cards are the 2012 Panini Prizm Tom Brady Silver and the 2014 Panini Prizm World Cup Messi Silver. The question is whether the market is pricing these two correctly relative … Read more

Released: August 12, 2025 | Duration: 39:00 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode features Mark Hill, founder and CEO of MyCardPost, discussing one of the most daunting undertakings in any industry: building a marketplace from scratch. Mark shares the origin story of MyCardPost, a subscription-based platform with no seller fees that has grown to … Read more

Released: July 29, 2025 | Duration: 19:02 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This is the most personal episode in the early run of Slabnomics: no guest, no structured argument, just a stream of thoughts recorded in the week before the National and the SoKo Expo. It covers three things in roughly equal measure: how to … Read more

Released: July 29, 2025 | Duration: 27:22 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode distills practical buying and selling wisdom from two major card shows: The National and the SoCo Expo. Instead of theory or speculation, this episode delivers actionable secrets that help collectors and dealers win on both sides of the table. These are … Read more

Released: July 22, 2025 | Duration: 50:22 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Chris McGill built CardLadder during his final semester of law school, working nights on a data product for a hobby that had no research infrastructure. The soft launch date, June 23, 2020 (6/23 for LeBron James and Michael Jordan), was not an accident. … Read more

Released: July 18, 2025 | Duration: 7:37 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This is a bonus episode where the host flips the usual mailbag format and asks the audience 27 questions across four categories: investment strategy and risk, buying edge and market positioning, selling and margin optimization, and brand building in the sports card space. … Read more

Released: July 15, 2025 | Duration: 17:49 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode uses Breaking Bad as a framework to explain why money velocity matters more than return multiples in sports card investing. Walter White set a target of $737,000 to provide for his family. He hit that number by the end of season … Read more

Released: July 8, 2025 | Duration: 48:48 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode features Ryan, the founder of Gemrate, discussing how population data, gem rates, and grading trends reveal opportunities that most collectors miss. Gemrate started as a solution to a personal problem: Ryan needed better tools to understand card supply and pricing beyond … Read more

Released: July 1, 2025 | Duration: 19:23 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode is a departure from frameworks and case studies. It is the origin story of Slabnomics, told through the lens of the host's background in finance, his entry into sports cards, and the lessons learned from both successes and spectacular failures. The … Read more

Released: June 24, 2025 | Duration: 14:29 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode breaks down the psychological forces that move sports card markets and explains how to use them to your advantage. It opens with the story of Odd Duck, an Austin restaurant that almost failed because they were charging too little for what … Read more