The $1M Pokemon Card Heist, Black Monday Never Happened, and Why Markets Are the Only Truth Machine
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Threadguy is back from the long weekend and revisits Black Monday 1987 after the internet spent three days predicting a sequel. Then the $1M FedEx heist of PSA graded Pokemon cards, who is actually guarding the card vaults, why an old GPU is worth more than he paid for it, a three story gacha arcade in NYC, the lore behind the Onion Futures Act, and South Korea's fake food delivery apps.
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