Charizard card vs US home prices
The parental advice was to get the house instead of the cards. Turns out a PSA 10 first edition Charizard was sitting under $20,000 back in 2017, and the same grade pulled $550,000 in 2025. Median new US home prices only moved about 37% across that window. Wild gap when you stack them side by side.
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Let's just compare a house versus Pokemon cards. So the median new U.S. home went from $299,800 in early 2016 to $410,700 in mid-2026. So up about 37%. Now compare that to a Pokemon card. A first edition Charizard in PSA 10 sold for under $20,000 in 2017. And then again for $550,000 in 2025. five. That's roughly 27 times its value. So yeah, would you rather buy the house, the Pokemon card? The financial decision would have been to buy the Charizard. Stocks, rates, the Fed, and where the money is going are things that we talk about all the time over here. So if you're into that, hit that follow button.
