When the economy is in a highly inflationary period, the government should use: Group of answer choices contractionary fiscal policy to decrease aggregate demand. expansionary fiscal policy to increase aggregate demand. contractionary fiscal policy to increase aggregate demand. expansionary fiscal policy to decrease aggregate demand.
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