Frederic Stanley Rick Mishkin (born January 11, 1951) is an American economist and professor at the Columbia Business School. He was a member of the .\rbr\rbrMeltdown is a four-part investigation into a world of greed and recklessness that brought down the financial world. The show begins with the 2008 crash that .\rbr\rbrLegislation passed by the federal government during the 1980s, such as the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 and the .\rbr\rbrThis talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. The Great Economic Myth of 2008, challenging the accounting to .