Gabriella: By raising interest rates, the government has induced people to borrow less money and ttherefore to spend less, thereby slowing the country' s economy. Ivan: I disagree with your analysis. The country' s economy is tied to the global economy. Whatever happens to the global economy also happens here, and the global economy has slowed. Ttherefore, the government' s action did not cause the economy' s slowdown. Gabriella and Ivan disagree about whether ['the global economy has slowed', "raising interest rates caused the country's economy to slow", 'the economic slowdown in the country has caused people to spend less', 'raising interest rates caused a significant decrease in borrowing']