(Reuters) – The U.S economy should avoid a recession in the coming year, according to an increasingly large majority of economists polled by the National Association of Business Economics. Some 91% of respondents to the latest NABE survey, published on Monday, assigned a probability of 50% or less to the U.S. entering a recession over the next 12 months. That was up from 79% in the October survey, and a far cry from the view a year ago, when a majority of economists expected a recession as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to fight high inflation. The rising optimism apparent in the su…