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That’s right in general but not in the case of SVB. It was a bank that had a highly narrow client mix that all stopped raising money at the exact same time after a decade of raising tons of money. So SVBs depositors all started withdrawing money at the exact same time. No other bank in the world has that same client mix. If there is another Run it’s because of heard mentality not because of a real problem



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