Michael Tipsord, vice chairman, president, and chief operating officer of State Farm Insurance Companies, addressed the Economic Club of Phoenix, sharing information about the company’s growth and how it will benefit customers, employees, and the Phoenix area.

The 1990s are remembered for robust employment growth, but that decade began with several years of very slow growth — about 2 percent per year, similar to the slow rate of growth in Arizona since 2010.

The Arizona economy is predicted to sustain stable, subtle growth over the next year under the Trump administration, according to our economists.

The website for Whole Foods Market declares that “we seek out the finest natural and organic foods available, maintain the strictest quality standards in the industry, and have an unshakeable commitment to sustainable agriculture.” At the January Economic Club of Phoenix luncheon, club president

Business writer John S. Kiernan included insights from the W. P. Carey School’s Nobel Laureate and economist, Edward Prescott, in a wrap up of 2015 economic predictions.

On Jan. 1, 2015, David Jackson succeeded Kevin Knight as CEO of Knight Transportation.

James Glassman, managing director and head economist for commercial banking at JPMorgan Chase & Co., and John Lonski, managing director and chief financial markets economist at Moody's Analytics, agreed that the economy of the nation, like Arizona, is recovering but not yet recovered.

At the 51st Annual ASU/JPMorgan Chase Economic Forecast Luncheon, two experts shared their progress reports on the economic recovery in Arizona. Both Lee McPheters and Elliott Pollack said that construction jobs lie at the heart of the job growth problem.

Ray Anderson is Arizona State University’s athletic director and university vice president. Before accepting the position in January 2014, Anderson was managing football operations for the NFL. At the Economic Club of Phoenix luncheon on Oct.