Market Intelligence for Trading Cards
Released: August 18, 2026 | Duration: 23:06 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Grading is expensive again. CGC still runs the only bulk tiers ($17 to $55 a card), PSA and Beckett start at $80, and TAG has paused everything below its top tiers. In that climate, which grader you send to matters more than it … Read more
Released: August 11, 2026 | Duration: 27:08 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode The episode traces the ongoing shutdown of bulk grading tiers across the major graders. Beckett cut every tier below $79.99 per card in the last ten days, PSA closed its bulk submissions months earlier, and TAG has now followed the same path. That … Read more
Released: August 4, 2026 | Duration: 15:19 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode A year and a half into the current bull run, plenty of collectors are getting nervous. Creators are calling for caution and drawing parallels to the COVID bull that crashed in 2022 just as fast as it climbed. The host argues this AI … Read more
Released: July 27, 2026 | Duration: 20:58 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode In this episode, the host walks the floor of Fanatics Fest, a 3.3 million square foot experience where roughly 7 out of 10 tables were carrying Pokemon cards, then previews the National in Chicago and the Soko soccer-only expo. He frames the noise … Read more
Released: July 21, 2026 | Duration: 21:03 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Eighteen years of fantasy football, 24 leagues at the peak, and four championship finals last season. Behind the trash talk sits a repeatable process that maps almost perfectly onto sports card investing. This episode of Slabnomics walks through the five phases a dynasty … Read more
Released: July 14, 2026 | Duration: 19:38 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Six months ago, a Slabnomics Instagram post arguing that the PSA 9 is dead in ultra-modern went past a million views. This episode inverts that thesis. Using PSA sales indexed to both player and sport baskets, three iconic cards get the same treatment: … Read more
Released: July 7, 2026 | Duration: 20:35 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode For 15 months, the Slabnomics investor tier fund was built around one thesis: a World Cup on American soil would function like an emerging-markets trade, with new capital rushing into an illiquid asset class where 52% of resale volume already sits in the … Read more
Released: June 29, 2026 | Duration: 18:25 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This episode is a thought dump spanning three parallel projects. The centerpiece is Victor Wembanyama's 2023 Prizm rookie card. All 83 parallels, all graders, roughly a year and a half of sales, indexed against Wembanyama's own Card Ladder player index to strip out … Read more
Issue #27 | July 18, 2026 Comped The Numbers RIP soccer bull –Baseball surges forward–Basketball 19 week streak; continues to crush–Football sees very positive trend forming–Soccer Messi’s market is doing well, but that’s about it–Pokemon 27 consecutive weeks of gains–One Piece seesaw swings down–S&P 500 bad week for equities–Gold bounce after signs of a bottom … Read more
Issue #26 | July 11, 2026 Comped The Numbers But bro, he’s the king of the pirates ⭐Celebrating 🥳 half a year of Comped⭐ –Baseball ekes out a gain–Basketball 18 week streak continues in a big way–Football continues offseason speculating–Soccer bearish volume trend over the last month–Pokemon 26 consecutive weeks of gains–One Piece…and there’s the … Read more