Here is an article that I feel paints a fairly accurate picture of the risks that the USA is facing:

http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/bernanke-running-amuck-6-3842...

There are a few things I don't agree with, but compare it in honesty with, for example, mainstream media's fudging of employment figures and playing along with our government's trying to hide the M3 figures, etc.