Michael Covel speaks with Terry Burnham on today’s podcast. Burnham is an economist who studies the biological and evolutionary basis of human behavior. He wrote "Mean Markets and Lizard Brains". Covel and Burnham discuss why Burnham removed $1 million from his Bank of America account and said “I don’t trust the banks”; the two ways to think about risk; separating the ideas of luck and skill; the lizard brain and how it relates back to our choices; a story about interacting with Paul Tudor Jones; why markets have momentum; the great driver of conformity; rationality and irrationality; captive chimps vs. chimps in the wild and the differences in behavior; predicting when the Fed will step in; thinking of the worst case scenario for equities and looking to Japan for an example; and negative interest rates. For more information on Terry Burnham, go to terryburnham.com. Want a free trend following DVD? Go to trendfollowing.com/win.