FT Series

The entire economy is Fyre Festival

Peer behind the curtain of the modern economy, and you'll often find that value is worth nothing

The Fyre Festival fire sale

Get your hands on a piece of finance fraud history for just a few hundred bucks!

The entire economy is Fyre Festival, crypto edition

Scammers gon’ scam. 

When rent-seeking gets shameless

The rights to the “.org” registry have been bought by a private equity company. 

Spotted in NYC: a very bad Twitter ad

“Using Twitter is like dipping your toes into an ocean of human beings.” 

Turns out WeWork’s future is bright

SoftBank’s ‘Aim to achieve Turnaround’ is pretty impressive/insane.

When risky zero-sum behaviours prop-up growth

David Levy on what if we’re not investing too little, but too much in a “bubble or nothing” economy that doesn’t generate enough income? 

More from this Series

Will artificial intelligence destroy poker?

An application of AI that isn’t primarily about marketing.

Marketing in the Fyre Festival economy

Vom. 

Uber becomes modern art

The ride-sharing company posts a staggering loss, misses on revenue and becomes cash-burning performance art.

Enron’s Glassdoor page

A glimpse into the past, and the future, of employee feedback.

Vaudeville, in pictures

Thank you to all who attended!

TEEIFF: confirmed by third parties

Capitalism, apparently, no longer requires capital.

The security and prosperity paradox, shoplifting edition

If surveillance society is so effective, why are costs going up?

Vaudeville, now with real celebrities

Thank you ASA, for helping to promote our own Fyre Festival.

How a guy called Colin Platt became the richest person in the world

(By launching the shittest of all the shitcoins, of course.)

Why security tokens are categorically and absolutely not crypto tokens

Pinch, punch, first of the month.

Today in TEEIFF

Virtual assistant delights in your loss.

The UK's used car write-off conundrum

In the TEEIFF, someone is always losing.

GMO's Montier on the rise of the dual economy

And how profitability strangely doesn't seem to matter any more.

Just because it's digital doesn't mean it's green

Digital technologies now account for twice as many greenhouse gas emissions as civil aviation. And they're not even adding to global growth.

Kylie Jenner is the world's youngest 'self-made billionaire'

Righty-ho.

Deliveroo announces “click and collect”

Because outsourcing delivery to your customers is the future.

What does a spike in pedestrian fatalities mean?

Albert Edwards, the perma-bear, wants to know.

Why wordcrime has destroyed the economy

And why the entire economy is Fyre Festival (TEEiFF).

The entire economy is Fyre Festival

And the trance may finally be breaking.