Slabnomics
Finance-Bro turned Card Bird explores the intersection of collecting, investment, and market theory for sports cards.
Think Financial Analyst meets Sports Card Collector.
New Episodes drop Tuesdays @ 7 AM CST.
Slabnomics
Latest Episodes
The $80 Floor: What Happens When Bulk Card Grading Dies
Grading built this market. Grading is now changing again.This episode traces card grading from the 1990s, when buyers and sellers eyeballed condition and negotiated it live, through the trust-building years of the mid 2010s, into the COV...
Does This Bull Market Have Legs? (Fanatics Fest/National/Soco)
The bull run is roughly a year and a half old. People are getting nervous.Matt takes the temperature three ways: Fanatics Fest, the National, and the SoCo Expo. Three different reads on the same hobby.Covered in this episode:<...
The Pokemon Pullback and Putrid Pulisic Performance (World Cup)
The hobby is loud. Buzz, hype, panic...and it all sounds the same until you learn which frequencies matter.Fresh off Fanatics Fest and headed to The National in Chicago, Matt breaks down what he saw on the floor and what it says about wh...
18 Years of Fantasy Football Taught Me How to Buy Cards
What do 18 years of fantasy football tell us about sports cards markets?This episode maps the five phases of dynasty fantasy football onto sports card and TCG investing. The core argument: most people think you win in the acc...
Wait, Do PSA 9s Have Better ROI Than PSA 10s?!?
Is the PSA 9 dead? Not so fast. Matt digs into three iconic cards across three sports to test a strange pattern: PSA 9s outperforming PSA 10s.He indexes every sale against player and sport baskets, then walks the data. 2003 Topps Chrome ...
