shock treatment

He has said that "shock treatment" would be needed to drag the country out of its economic crisis, and added that those who opposed him would usher in "a social catastrophe of biblical proportions".

After being sworn in last month, President Milei told Argentines that a "shock treatment" would be needed to drag the country out of the economic crisis in which it has been mired.

Argentina's new far-right president has vowed to deliver economic "shock treatment" in his first speech after formally taking office.

Yet skeptics of Mr. Volcker’s economic shock treatment have pointed out that he partly got lucky.

He underwent spinal taps and shock treatments as part of his physical rehabilitation.