At which point would the government be most likely to
try to stimulate the economy?
at which point would a business be most likely to hire
new workers?

Explanation:

You can you can only stimulate an economy if it is Falling into recession

You can hire new workers if the business is growing

you can hire a new workers when your company or business is expanding also,

you can hire new workers as if as it is a necessity to reshuffle the system of a business due to lack of productivity or bad characters within or among the workers which is affecting the business

Thirdly , you can also fire the workers if most of the workers are coming to the age of retirement you have the order numbers of people already going to retirement about the limit of the age of productivity of your business system, then you need to lay off and hire new workers so that their productivity will not affect your business because of the age

Government would most likely stimulate the economy when Economic is in Recession.

Business will most likely hire new workers when they are Expanding operations or when most of the workers are close to Retirement .

Explanation:

Economic stimulus: these are fiscal and monetary policies used by Government to stimulate the economy that has in the deep or in the thick of economic recession example of such policies are increase in government spending cutting down on interest rates and encourage healthy spending.

Business will need new workers/employees when they are expanding,reshuffling or sending some workers on a long period of study leave or also If the company have a very huge project to handle that the current number of staffs can't handle successfully. retirement point are also a key point for business to hire new workers.