So the Stock Market Crashed… Why? And How am I Investing in Response?

Michael Yorke
9 min readMay 19, 2022
Photo by Andy Holmes on Unsplash

If you’re an investor, it’s been a wild ride the last couple of years. Back at the beginning of 2020, Covid came out of nowhere sending the world into lockdown. Factories closed their doors, planes were grounded and people stopped leaving their homes. Share prices tumbled in response, and on March 16th 2020 the S&P 500 dropped 12% in a single day. Governments around the…

Michael Yorke

Sharing my take on things that I find interesting and important.