In a few minutes, Marketplace goes to a Marketplace to start a series to try to reward you for getting through a fraught election season, whatever your politics.

First, a Wall Street Credit Rating Agency has a new calculation saying the U.S. government's finances could deteriorate if President-elect Donald Trump implements the fiscal policies on which he campaigned.

Here's Marketplace's Novosopo.

Moody says Donald Trump's campaign promises, such as more tax cuts, are increasing the risks associated with U.S. sovereign debt because they could blow a hole in the federal budget.

The nonpartisan committee for a responsible federal budget found

the tax cuts could add $7.5 trillion to the nation's debt over the next decade. Moody's is the last

of the three main credit rating agencies to maintain a top rating for U.S. government debt. Others

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We call ourselves Marketplace, so part of our job is exploring how marketplaces work in all their forms, knowing a

bruising election season would require a change of pace the week that followed here.

I set out to visit five markets, all in the near orbit of this program's world headquarters

in Los Angeles. None are financial markets in a formal sense, but all markets are financial

markets in a way, right?

My goal was to learn the right and the wrong moves with an expert.

Today, Tricks of the Trade in one of the great bazaars in America,

the Rose Bowl flea market in Pasadena, California.

All right, going through the entrance now into the Great Emporium.

It's a perfect morning.

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