September 18, 2017· 36 min
The Baseball Card Bubble Can Tell You A Surprising Amount About How Markets Work
Orality
Model
70%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)
Speaker Breakdown
HostTracy Alloway(2,183 words)
M:29%
HostJoe Weisenthal(765 words)
M:94%
GuestDave Jamieson(3,691 words)
M:94%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic36%
literally, completely, amazing
Engagement75%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
know (109x), they (77x), like (74x)
Parallelism89%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So Tracy, we continue with our..., And what's amazing is there ar...
Sound Patterns71%
50 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases3%
i mean
Literate Indicators
Hedging9%
probably, could, maybe
Passive Voice8%
was rekindled, were created, be assigned
Abstract Nouns11%
investment, recommendation, personality
Subordination6%
because, until, however
Sentence Length38%
Avg: 14.4 words/sentence
Word Complexity43%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style25%
530 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
literally, completely, probably
Description
There's a good chance that if you were a boy in the early 90s that you were a collector of baseball cards. For a few years, the baseball card industry went from being a niche collectible to a massive industry. It was, for a brief period, a legitimate bubble. On this week's Odd Lots podcast we talk to Dave Jamieson, the author of Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession. Among the topics we discussed include the role that pricing guides had in exacerbating the boom, the way that supply massively expanded to meet the raging demand, and how baseball cards have always been a gateway to various vices. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.