Chaotic times are no excuse for making poor choices, despite the fact that all this stuff is happening that you cannot control.

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This, the Fed cannot hope to control.

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First, all the important spending decisions remain under the control of future Congresses, which cannot be bound by what this one did.

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"I am used to playing with pain but this was a new and different pain I cannot control, " he said on his website on Monday.

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This is not to say that private landowners cannot also exercise collective self-control.

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This year's unanticipated slowdown reinforced what most Asian governments already know: they cannot exert total control over their economic future.

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