The last paragraph reminds me a little of the short story The Library of Babel. Where all possible permutations of ‘knowledge’ is available and it all becomes useless/impossible to find.

The Farage speech just seemed to be part of a pump and dump on the pound.

In my more cynical moments I think that was the whole point of Brexit. An awful lot of the big names in the pro-Brexit movement were in one sort of investment-management business or another, and I'd love to see what positions they and their companies held in June 2016.