New Deals

As the pall of the Michael Cohen scandals begins to descend on the tRump administration, the dealmaker in chief just scuttled the Iran deal on nukes and touted his upcoming summit with N. Korea as proof that only he can make the world safe from the "Axis of Evil".  Until the actual weapons start to detonate over our cities, the late night talk shows should have ample monologue material!   As Kevin Drum pointed out in the aftermath of tRump's announcement, a Saudi Prince just purchased the Plaza Hotel in New York for about $600,000,000.  That's about $350,000,000 less than Orange Julius spent to buy and renovate the same structure in the late 1980's.  Nuff said.