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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.

  1. hace 4 h

    Grading Mistakes in Cards: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced

    9 grading mistakes killing your sports card and Pokémon profits broken down by skill level.  Matt covers PSA's new 50–70 business day turnaround at the $80 tier, why Beckett only bumps a certain amount off the average, how PSA actually grades, and why annualized ROI matters more than raw margin.  Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced grading traps drawn from ~$50K in personal grading spend over 18 months.  Weekly Newsletter Signup: Slabnomics.com 🎥Youtube 📸Instagram

  2. 18 ago

    PSA vs BGS vs CGC vs SGC vs TAG: Who Actually Grades Hardest

    Five of the most graded cards in history. Every grade from every grader. The data says a PSA 10 is easier to obtain than most competing top grades, and the market pays for it anyway. Cards analyzed: 2023 Van Gogh Pikachu, 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. rookie, 1990 Fleer Michael Jordan, 1986 Topps Jerry Rice rookie, 1999 Unlimited Charizard Holo. Covered: PSA vs BGS vs CGC vs SGC vs TAG, gem rates and condition rarity, percentile difficulty by grade, BGS 10 Pristine and Black Label scarcity, CGC 10 Pristine mispricing, why SGC 10s look underpriced, PSA 9 value cases, and why I have to play Devil's advocate with PSA. Sourcing note: population data from GemRate and public pop reports. Values are last-sale references, not appraisals. Keep Building. Weekly Newsletter Signup: Slabnomics.com 🎥Youtube 📸Instagram

  3. 11 ago

    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 COVID volume surge that turned grading into the backbone of an asset class. We cover what old label standards mean for the population data you rely on today, and why PSA 10 counts across sports and TCG look nothing like they did in 2020. From there we get into the squeeze. Bulk and value submission tiers are closing across the major graders. We work through what an $80 per card floor does to submission math, how lock-up time factors into grading ROI, and which cards stop making sense to send at all. The back half covers what each grade actually represents. PSA 10, BGS 9.5 True Gem, BGS 10 Pristine, Black Label, CGC 10 Pristine, and where TAG sits. Vintage centering versus ultra modern parallels. Then three predictions on where grade premiums move next. Topics: card grading history, PSA population inflation, bulk submission shutdown, grading cost thresholds, repackers and breakers, institutional capital in collectibles, BGS Black Label, CGC 10 Pristine, TAG accuracy, Pokemon and ultra modern grading, PSA 9 versus PSA 10 ratios. Keep Building. Weekly Newsletter Signup: Slabnomics.com 🎥Youtube 📸Instagram

  4. 5 ago

    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:  Loss aversion and the psychology behind selling  Why the COVID comparison breaks down  Institutional money, breaking, and new distribution  The Panini to Fanatics shift as a market signal  Pokemon, One Piece, Disney, F1, and modern soccer as early markets  What a healthy pullback looks like No call on the top. A method for reading the room. Weekly Newsletter Signup: Slabnomics.com 🎥Youtube 📸Instagram

  5. 28 jul

    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 where the sports card and tcg markets are going.  Then it's into listener questions: does soccer rebound? Matt walks through: The full World Cup cycle,why he was wrong on Pulisic, why you sell before the tournament and not during, and why he's still long-term bullish on soccer cards with the World Cup hosted stateside.Finally, Pokémon. The index has been up 27 straight weeks even while headline cards pulled back 40%. New collectors are shook. Veterans aren't. A pullback is not a crash and Matt explains how to tell the difference. Free COMPED newsletter → Signup at Slabnomics.com Weekly Newsletter Signup: Slabnomics.com 🎥Youtube 📸Instagram

  6. 21 jul

    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 accumulation phase. You don't. You win in the two phases before it, and the two after. Covered in this episode: The running back age cliff as a model for card value curvesHype as opium: why "best shape of his life" and "this player's team is going to be good" are the same worthless signalJonathan Taylor vs Clyde Edwards-Helaire, and what that trade teaches about buying undervalued assetsWhy Messi cards will not go 2-3x on a World Cup win (10-20% bump, then a fade)Cash flow management and why stale inventory is locked capitalThe three things championship teams actually doYou cannot manage what you have not measured. Weekly Newsletter Signup: Slabnomics.com 🎥Youtube 📸Instagram

  7. 14 jul

    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 LeBron. 2014 World Cup Prizm Messi. 1999 Base Set Charizard. Weekly Newsletter Signup: Slabnomics.com 🎥Youtube 📸Instagram

  8. 7 jul

    I Ran a 15-Month Soccer Card Fund. Here's What Actually Worked.

    A 15-month soccer card investment fund, reviewed in real time during the 2026 World Cup. Why demand trickles top-down in illiquid markets, why case hits (Kaboom, Color Blast, Stained Glass) hold a floor, and why Messi, Mbappé, and Haaland moved the market while prospects burned capital. Supply, demand, and the pre-tournament dip.  Invest, don't gamble.  Music licensed through Soundstripe. Code: HZJPVCKVKAJUFFXF, UXMVRMTVRBJROCR9, BKVEPZEKUG6S4GRO, CN3FU0R0WNSQEIMP, UZQZMIMZRGSWFOJQ, 0Q5RITPLSX8TZN25, I2I8GOQBXBKD8MSC Weekly Newsletter Signup: Slabnomics.com 🎥Youtube 📸Instagram

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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.

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  • Creado por
    Matt
  • Años en activo
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodios
    67
  • Clasificación
    Apto
  • Derechos de autor
    © 2026 Slabnomics
  • Sitio web del podcast
    Slabnomics
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