Economic Policy
Warnings From the Wilderness: LaRouche's 2004 Call to Restore Banking Safeguards and the Collapse That Proved Him Right
Long before Wall Street's implosion made headlines in September 2008, Lyndon LaRouche was sounding alarms from the campaign trail about the catastrophic risks embedded in America's deregulated financial architecture. His 2004 platform placed the restoration of Glass-Steagall at the center of a broader economic rescue program—a position that mainstream economists and political commentators dismissed as fringe, until history proved otherwise. This analysis traces the intellectual lineage of those
Jul 11, 2026