Hi Kyle, welcome to the board. There's a lot of great information and people on this board. You'll enjoy it.
Like you, I recently just got back into collecting. From what I can tell (mainly through reading discussions here) is that the price increases of the last few years have been driven primarily through an interest in the collecting market by non trading card collectors. It seems that a significant amount of people who are looking for high return investments vs. genuine collectors have entered the market and driven prices up.
You may also hear about manipulation of the market artificially driving up prices, but I'm still not in the mainstream enough to really confirm or deny.
ENJOY!
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