Since World War II, the United States economy has been hemorrhaged by 11 recessions. Two have hit over the past 15 years alone and nearly eight years after the last one in 2008, the nation and Tennessee are continuing to rebound and see strong growth. Economists William Fox and Matthew Murray, with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research, estimate that trends related to that growth will continue into 2017.