"if a country is trying to recover from a recent recession, it is unlikely their government officials will decide to because it would "

Raise interest rates; Decrease aggregate demand.

Explanation:

Raising interest rates, as the exercise explains, would in turn decrease aggregate demand which would be unfortunate for a country recovering from a recent recession given that interest rates affect expenditures more than they affect savings, provoking the aggregate demand (the total demand for all goods within a given market at a given time) to slope down.

industry had made the u.s. the richest nation in the world at this time. the second industrial revolution caused growth in industry and transportation, which allowed increased trade between nations.

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