what's up everyone take down here welcome back to another video today I'm going to be sharing my thoughts and predictions on who I think is going to make it into the NHL playoffs this year and which teams I think are going to go on to win the NHL Stanley Cup for 2020 let's get right into this okay since we are approaching the halfway point for this year's season I decided to make this video like I have been doing every year now and just kind of discussing all the teams that I think are going to make it into the playoffs considering everything that I've seen so far this season now some people on my list of which teams I think are going to make it into the playoffs are not quite there yet I think by the end of the season they hopefully will continue to do good things on the ice and to hopefully move up in the standing so they can make it into the playoffs but some of these are going to be a little bit questionable near the end but we're going to be really excited to see who is going to make it and I'm also going to be discussing who I think is going to win the Stanley Cup playoffs as of now it being the halfway in part for this season so first I'm just going to share who I think is going to make it into the playoffs this year I'm going to start with the east coast first because that's easier for me up first is the Washington capitals they are doing amazing on the ice right now I believe at the time I'm recording this video is about 53 points which is amazing for the halfway point of course they have a lot of great players on their team and they're doing great things they're former Stanley Cup champions so I can see them doing really good for the rest of the season and continue with the success they've been having next for me would be the New York Islanders we've been seeing great things from them for the past few years of course Robin Leonard is no longer part of the Islanders he's now on Chicago which isn't doing so hot this season but Islanders are still doing pretty good on the ice next would be the Carolina Hurricanes who at the beginning of the season were doing really great they did make it into the playoffs last year and they're one of the teams that I was pulling forward to go on and win the Stanley Cup but I'm glad that the St. Louis Blues did win last year and they've been doing really great things so I think they're going to continue with their success and also the Pittsburgh Penguins but we see the Pittsburgh Penguins making it in the Stanley Cup every year this year I think if they make it into the playoffs honestly it's sad for me to say this but I'm hoping they get eliminated first round because I'm tired of always seeing the same team the Pittsburgh Penguins get into the finals and win the Stanley Cup and it just started to get dull for me that's why I'm glad that new teams are starting to win St. Louis last year the first time winning it but another team for the east coast that I'd like to see Bump Pittsburgh out or one of the other teams that I just mentioned would be the Philadelphia Flyers I feel like they're not quite there yet but if they keep doing what they're doing on the ice and try a little bit harder I feel like they can make it into the playoffs which is something I'd honestly like to see now whether or not they pass Pittsburgh Penguins and replace them in the playoffs I don't know if that's going to happen I think Pittsburgh Penguins can still put up a great fight and still remain in the playoffs but maybe Philadelphia will bump another team instead also I have the Boston Bruins who made it into the finals last year and I'm really glad that they didn't win because Boston Bruins they have a great team they have great players they've won the cup before which is awesome for them to do they are one of the NHL original six teams which is awesome but there is one player on the team which I don't like so much I like that he backs himself up and he does what he wants but he's really aggressive and especially in the playoffs when they make it to the playoffs they go hardcore which is nice to see because a lot of teams don't they just go into freaking dominate which is awesome I just don't see them winning this year next would be Montreal Canadians who I feel always choke whenever it comes to the playoffs it's either they make it to the playoffs or they don't but if they make it to the playoffs they usually choke now they do have some great players Max Domi who I'm a huge fan of is doing great so I could see different things but I think they're definitely going to make it into the playoffs with the success they've had so far this season next up is one that again it might be questionable right now they're in the standings to make it to the playoffs but anything can happen for the rest of the season and that is the Buffalo Sabres their team that they're doing great things they're starting to really pick up the wins that they need to make it into the playoffs and continue for the rest of the season but that's an iffy one for me and the last one for the east coast or the eastern division I should say eastern conference sorry is the Florida Panthers now they're not quite there yet they still need to get pushed a lot more and they still need to be accumulating a lot more wins which they haven't been recently but of course at the end of last season they ended up acquiring Sergei Bobrowski which I'm really happy because I'm a great fan of his he is and in my opinion a top goalie and with all the other talent Mike Hoffman and the rest of the team that's doing great things on the ice I feel like they can definitely be contenders for the playoffs they need to pick up more wins of course they need to get more points and they need to start pushing and pushing and pushing for the playoffs but their team I definitely feel could be going into the playoffs this year and I'm really hoping they do next for the western conference first up it's going to be the st. louis blues they are dominating this season like they did last season of course they won the cup last year I actually see them going on not only going into the playoffs but making it into the finals because of what they've been doing so far this season so I'm really excited to see if that happens and if they can be a two time with two consecutive years winning the cup I'd honestly love to see that next would be colorado avalanche who I'm also a fan of I think they need to continue what they're doing but also pick up they have a lot of young talent they have a lot of great players which I like to see but I really want to see a little bit more of crazy stuff from them and hopefully they can continue with their success next would be dallas stars who I feel like they're a team that can definitely be contenders and definitely make it to the finals it's just every year for the playoffs it seems like they always slip or something happens they have great players on the teams it's just they always miss that opportunity so I feel like they're definitely somebody that could make it to the finals hopefully and next is going to be the winnipeg jets now I'm a Canadian I love cheering for the Canadian teams it's just if any of the teams st. louis blues colorado avalanche dallas stars or winnipeg jets were to be replaced by another team I feel like winnipeg jets could get bumped out that's the team I'm going to pick to get bumped out if any do but I think they're doing great things and they need to continue that another team that would be nice to see get in which they're not quite there and I'd be okay if they didn't but if they did I'd expect great things and that's Nashville creditors they've been doing great things of course they had a great shot last year maybe it was the year before I can't quite remember and they were doing great things on the ice and with Mike Fisher's return that was amazing for the playoffs to see him come back I absolutely loved them in the playoffs they didn't quite do what they wanted to do but it that's okay so I'm hoping they make it into the playoffs as well but if they do they'd have to bump out winnipeg jets in my opinion which is something I think they could do if they keep going they just need to get to that point this season and next will be the last four will be Arizona coyotes who are doing amazing this season of course at the end of last season they acquired Phil Kessel from the Pittsburgh Penguins who I didn't expect to go to that team prior to him making it to the team I always felt like Carolina sorry Arizona coyotes were a under card team they weren't quite there to be contenders they were trying a lot of new things they had a lot of young players a lot of rookies and they're always losing top talents but with them signing Phil Kessel right away they started doing great things on the ice and I'm really excited to see what the team has to offer and of course recently a couple weeks ago Taylor Hall was acquired from Arizona coyotes which to me is a huge factor for them making to the playoffs of course with him and Phil Kessel and the rest of the team we were who are doing great it's not just these two players that falls on the team whole team's doing great this season I feel like they're definitely making it to the playoffs and hopefully the finals that's something I would love to see Vegas Golden Knights their first year into the league they made it all the way to the finals which was incredible for them to do they did dominating season the next year they still did great they didn't quite do what they wanted to this season I think they're going to continue doing great things they have key players but whenever you have too many key players everything stops working the way it should be so it's going to be interesting to see if they can continue on this momentum next Edmonton Oilers they've been slipping the past few years they've been slipping for a long time in my opinion Connor McDavid's on the team who I feel should be doing better he's great on the ice but the team itself is not doing so hot I remember last season this season before he was mentioning in interviews that the team just isn't what they should be they're they're arguing all the time they're blaming each other and they should be working together more and I hundred percent agree with that so I feel if the team can be won as a whole and work together and use teamwork with Connor McDavid with his skills I feel like they can definitely be contenders this year and of course the Calgary Flames I'm a huge fan of the Calgary Flames I think they can make it to the playoffs if they don't choke that's something I see them doing is making it to the playoffs usually they choke hopefully they can actually make good this year they were one of my picks to win last year's Stanley Cup because the success they had last season so I'm hoping they continue and make it to the playoffs this year and so we can see what we can do one team that I really think will not make it to the playoffs however for the western division or western conference story is the San Jose Sharks I feel like they've just acquired so many top talent that now that they have so many top talent they're kind of combating each other and they're just not working out the team as a whole is very dysfunctional and I think there's big changes that need to happen and it will definitely happen in the future so they can become contenders but I don't see them making it so this is who I think is going to make it to the playoffs now as of right now since it's the halfway mark who I think will win the playoffs this year normally I pick one team from the east coast one team from the west coast this year I have two teams from the east coast and two teams from the west coast that I really think could win or I hope to see them win so up first the east coast I'm going to pick the Washington capitals they've been doing great things they've been dominating this season and it's only the halfway mark so I see their success continuing for the rest of the season so that's my first pick of who I think is actually going to win for the east coast another team for the east coast who isn't quite there but I'm really expecting them to and I'd honestly be extremely happy if they won the Stanley Cup this year that is the Florida Panthers they're not quite there yet they've always been an undercard team but with the acquiring of Sergei Bobrovsky and with the teams other players and the success they've been having over the past few years I see them really being contentious this year and hopefully dominating and making it to the playoffs and then seeing what they can do in the playoffs and proving what they can do I really would like to see them but that's one that they as of right now are not in the playoffs so we will see later on see what they can do and what they will do and if they can make to the playoffs I'm hoping they do because they're one of my picks for winning the Stanley Cup this year and now for the west coast of course I'm going to pick the St. Louis Blues they're contenders from last year they're the champions from last year I really feel like they've been dominating this season and with the success and riding on the high from winning last year I feel like they can go into this year and win the Stanley Cup again I feel like they're definitely going to make it to the finals at least for the Stanley Cup that would be lovely to see I honestly am a huge fan and seeing what they've been doing this season really inspires me to want them to win the Cup again which is something that I wasn't wasn't too sure how I felt with them winning last year but with them winning last year I'm glad it was a new team I would like to see them win again that would be awesome to see and the last team I'm going to pick and this for the Western Conference is the Arizona Coyotes they've been doing great like I've already mentioned in this video they've been dominating they have Phil Kessel and Taylor Taylor Hall now along with a bunch of other talents and a lot of young rookies and they've been doing great this season I really if you asked me a couple years ago if I would expect to see Arizona Coyotes in the playoffs and make them in the future a pick to win the playoffs I probably would say I highly doubt it now with what they're doing this season and this past season now that they have acquired these two top players and their players all are doing great in my opinion I feel like they're definitely contenders it's going to be interesting to see what they can do and I really wish they go on to win the Stanley Cup so these are my four picks to win the Stanley Cup this year normally I just picked one East Coast one West Coast I honestly couldn't narrow it down so that's why I decided to pick Florida Panthers Washington Capitals St. Louis Blues and Arizona Coyotes so I'm going to leave this video here we are approaching the halfway mark by the time I upload this it will probably be the halfway mark so comment down below who you feel is going to make it to the playoffs this year who you feel is going to win the Stanley Cup this year as of right now with it being the halfway mark and comment down below if your team if you feel like they're going to make it to the Stanley Cup playoffs this year I'm an Ottawa Senators fan I just don't see them doing it this year next season if they continue with what they're doing on the ice with Anthony doing great things as well I can see the team doing better but comment that down below I believe this video here please take care peace


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Hello and welcome to an insight and ID. I'm very pleased to welcome George Soros, billionaire philanthropist and former hedge fund manager. And today we're going to discuss the difference between natural phenomenon and social phenomenon, an idea, a big idea, Mr. Soros, that has really guided you through life. It's my pleasure. It's basically something that I developed as a student days and it has really kind of guided me both in making money and in spending money. Now tell us the basics and exactly when you thought of it. Was there a special moment where you thought actually this is what our society is about? No, as a student I was studying economics and at the same time I was reading Karl Popper, the philosopher, and studying basic economics, theory of perfect competition, which originally assumed perfect knowledge. And then I was reading Popper who made it clear that perfect knowledge is unattainable, that even in science you can't validate theories, you can only falsify them. So the two ideas were directly contradictory and I sided with Popper. And also economics was rather using a lot of math and I was not very good at math. So I rather questioned the assumptions on which the math was based and that's how I came to this recognition that economics ignored this fundamental difference between natural phenomena and social phenomena because in natural phenomena the imperfect understanding which is part of human nature, unavoidable, doesn't enter into the sequence of events that you are studying. So you can actually establish universally valid laws which can be used both to predict and to explain. And it's actually a really beautiful construction, natural science. In social phenomena this doesn't work because the imperfect understanding enters into the sequence of events and it introduces an element of uncertainty that's actually absent in natural phenomena. You also have uncertainty principle in physics, but this human uncertainty principle is an additional source of uncertainty. So when Heisenberg discovered the uncertainty principle it didn't change the behavior of the quanta that it was referring to whereas when you discover a theory about social affairs it actually can change society. So when let's say Karl Marx proposed his theory of history it actually changed his history. This is an idea, a big idea that didn't get much traction at the beginning but you felt vindicated in 2008. I developed this, I actually published it first in 1987, the Alchemy of Finance and I called it Alchemy to indicate that it doesn't claim to be a scientific explanation of financial markets. But it's a better explanation than the scientific one which ignored this fundamental difference. So you know the Alchemists made a big mistake when they tried to change the behavior of metals by Abra Kadabra. They should have gone into financial markets because there you actually can change the sequence of events by Abra Kadabra. So what lessons have we learned actually from the crisis? Well, so then let's say my interpretation of financial markets which I put forward in 1987 was basically ignored. It was recognized or studied in business schools but academic economists either, I mean they basically ignored it. But then with the financial crisis which got serious in August 2007 but actually pretty well predicted it at Davos in January 1987 and then culminated in the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. That really shook the existing efficient market hypothesis rational expectations theory because it did not actually allow for that to happen. So that's when my construction which is sort of built on two pillars of fallibility and reflexivity, it gained traction. And that was really when one could really start having public discussions about it. Until then I developed it pretty well on my own because it wasn't seriously discussed. So it really requires a lot more development than it has had so far. And actually I also established or founded the Institute for New Economic Thinking which is not actually devoted to reflexivity as such but where within which you can also discuss reflexivity. What does it mean for the future? What is your big prediction for the next two to three years? Are we in a phase where it's very easy to come back to what happened in 2008 because we're in such a fragile state? Well, I mean the unfortunate fact is that the established theory has collapsed but we haven't actually got a proper understanding how financial markets operate. And we have introduced synthetic instruments, invented derivatives where we don't fully understand the effect they have. And the concept of equilibrium which was basically borrowed from Newtonian physics is not applicable to financial markets because they are actually, it's not that equilibrium is impossible but it's an extreme that actually is not attained. You can be sometimes close to equilibrium but at other times you are very far from equilibrium with no particular tendency to return to equilibrium. And we are actually since 2008 in this far from equilibrium territory because when financial markets collapsed and they really actually did and the authorities had to intervene to actually keep it on what I call artificial respiration. And the artificial respiration was to substitute the credit of the state, the sovereign credit for the financial credit that collapsed. And that meant a sort of a delicate two-phase maneuver where you actually had to inject additional credit in a situation which was a crisis situation which was brought about by too much leverage and too much credit. You actually had to add more in order to correct the situation to bring it under control. So when a car is skidding you first have to turn the wheel in the same direction as the skid to regain control because if you don't then you have the car rolling over. So you firstly regain control and then you correct the direction. So that's what the authorities did. That was actually something that they learned from the previous occasion in the 1930s when not doing this, when trying to balance the budget when you had insufficient demand actually created a depression. So this was the lesson, a quantitative easing, let's say pioneered by Bananke, is, let's say, the lesson learned from the 1930s. But what is the car doing at the moment? What is the car doing? We're not in a forward trajectory yet. The first phase of the maneuver is pretty well complete but the second phase we haven't yet started. And you now had the Euro crisis which actually has preoccupied me for the last year or so because there this emphasis put on the injection of sovereign credit revealed a flaw in the construction of the Euro, a fundamental flaw that the authorities themselves didn't realize because the government debt of the member countries is designated in a currency which they don't control. So they actually have a debt in a foreign currency similar to the less developed countries, the developing world that got over indebted in dollars or yen or whatever in other foreign currency. And so that added a risk that was unrecognized, credit risk, namely the danger of default because if you issue debt in your own currency you have absolutely no reason to default because you can always print it, right? But the member countries couldn't print euros so they could default. And therefore suddenly when the markets realized this and they were rather slow in realizing it, they put on a tremendous risk premium. Are we now in danger of having a credit bubble because of all of this cheap liquidity? Yeah. Well, this is a big issue, the unresolved issue. I think it should be possible to withdraw the additional credit as the economy gets going. But it hasn't been done yet and therefore there's a fear that this could result in a runaway inflation. This is the fear that prevails particularly in Germany. So Germany and the Eurozone because it's dominated by Germany is out of tune with the rest of the world. So even though the euro crisis has been sort of brought under control in 2013, this disagreement on how to handle the recession actually remains very acute and it has become more acute this year than it has been before because the last holdout in the rest of the world, namely Japan, has changed course at the beginning of this year. But how difficult is it for central banks to decide when they have to mop up this liquidity? Yeah. This is a maneuver that has to be carried out by the central banks. But it's difficult to decide the ideal moment to do this, is it not? It's probably impossible to do it and it's going to be a tricky thing. And in fact, most likely if the economy actually gathers momentum and the money injected into the system, gathers momentum, interest rates will shoot up and arrest the recovery. So we are facing, I think, a period of go stop which is far superior to no go at all.  Can you give us concrete examples? Well, yes. I mean, for instance, when I set up a foundation in the United States because the foundation is devoted to promoting open society, which is an idea that I took over from Karl Paufer. Now, the first thing is that actually I discovered that the concept of open society which guided me in getting involved in the collapse of the Soviet Union is also flawed. So when I applied the theory, I discovered actually it has a flaw in it. So that's one example of recognizing the pervasive influence of misconceptions in shaping the course of history. The idea which was guiding me also has a flaw in it. So that's one example. Then when things in the former Soviet Union kind of calmed down, the revolution kind of abated, then I wanted to address the deficiencies of what I considered to be one of the most developed and successful open societies in the United States. So I set up a foundation active in America. And two of the first issues that we addressed were issues that were basically insoluble problems where the way of dealing with insoluble problems made the problems worse than they need to be. And one of these problems actually is death. It's rather unavoidable and it's actually quite unacceptable to our consciousness because it's the demise of our consciousness. So it's anathema to our thinking. And so we invent all kinds of myths and things to sort of make it acceptable. What's basically is unacceptable. And in the case of the United States, America, it's really there's a cult of denying death, not accepting it, and that in many ways makes the process of dying much more painful. If you don't accept it beforehand. There comes a point where you have to accept, eventually give up the struggle and just accept it. And that project I think made a lot of impact, particularly in the medical profession, which also denied death. So for instance, dying is not accepted as something that has to be dealt or it was not accepted as a subject for medical reimbursement. And of course doctors and nurses were trained to fight it beyond any, not to accept it properly. So thinking has really changed. And also I think public opinion has also shifted a bit in that respect. Mr. Soros, I think we're about to wrap up. I just want to get one last thought from you. Do you believe that everything is fallible? Do you believe that everything has a flaw? And is this what we have to take away from your big idea? Yes, I mean it's a very good, let's say, practical assumption, a working assumption to assume or to recognize that your way of thinking and acting may be flawed. And in fact, inevitably, if you actually have something that works, you will overburden it, put too much weight on it until it becomes flawed. So you even, let's say, natural science, which actually does produce fantastic results, has been overburdened by applying the Matzitsyn criteria to the study of social phenomena. So what works in the field of natural phenomena can actually be misleading in applying those methods to social phenomena. So that is a very good example of a true idea getting overburdened until it becomes misleading. And central bankers, policy makers and governments need to understand this to avoid the next crisis? That is, and it's very hard to come to terms with it. And of course, particularly institutions, governments, hang on to their mistakes. And the Euro crisis is the perfect example because it's very largely self-inflicted because having made an original error, it hasn't been actually admitted, recognized and corrected. Mr. Soros, thank you.


You know every morning I wake up and I make my wife and I cup of coffee now She likes her coffee with six sugars and two splashes of cream me I like mine with five sugars and two to three splashes of cream and it may be one or something That's just like life. You know, we all have our different tastes and styles and and it's also like YouTube as well YouTube life is just like taste buds. Everybody's is different.  Let me know what you think in the comments below. I'm trying to see something


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