What's your honest take on the U.S. economy?

Time Magazine has a column this week saying that today, as opposed to the Depression or WW II years, so many economic statistics and analyses are being churned out and so many of them are in direct conflict, that it’s almost impossible to assess what’s happening or to predict what’s to come. Even if all the data actually WAS accurate, an impossibility, nobody would understand it enough to truly comprehend, let along alter, natural economic ebbs and flows. Where do YOU think our economy is headed and what makes you believe so?