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infinite recession 

The point at which a financial professional observes the market from an infinite distance, upon which he becomes part of the market and is both the observer and the observed.
Infinite recession:
"Jerry - we're going into recession."
"OMG! I'll withdraw all my funds from the stock market and put it into gold."
"I'm gonna sell all my bank shares, that'll leave all of the hard-working people who make things without any money, while I'll have all my money in gold."
"But pulling shares from the banks will take us further into recession!"
"Watch me care when I have all my bling",
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infinite nerd recursion 

The situation wherein a small group of nerds will tend to jump from tangent to tangent because each point gives other people new things they want to talk about.
"Okay, so my wizard will cast color spray on the three guards."

"Man, wizards are so overpowered"

"Wait till I get epic level and can teleport you into orbit of the planet. You can't get down unless you have some ability to fly"

"Wouldn't you just explode from the pressure"

"Actually, as long as you breath out, you can stay alive and conscious for a minute or so. And the people at spaceX have training for when this might happen"

"Man, I'm amazed that a privately funded space organization has gotten so far"

"It's what happens when you get a bunch of nerds together"

"And a lot of money"

"You don't need the money, one of my professors built a submarine with his friends"

"It must have been a pain in the ass to organize"

"Yeah, it's like herding cats, where one of them can weld really well!"

... this infinite nerd recursion can continue indefinitely ...
infinite nerd recursion by Lab_Monkey December 14, 2010
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