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Pokemon (The Gym): Attention Liquidity

The Pokémon Company has weaponized nostalgia into a high-frequency trading floor. Algorithmic retail distribution and synthetic scarcity create an Attention Liquidity bubble: a PSA-10 Charizard sits in a Delaware vault, sliced into micro-shares, while grading backlogs trap retail buyers in cardboard they cannot sell.

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