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Silicon Valley Bank's Black Swan Event

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Two armed police officers, one with a baton in left hand, stand outside Silicon Valley Bank headquarters as another person behind them reads a notice taped to the closed front entrance explaining the bank's closure.
Police officers leave Silicon Valley Bank's headquarters in Santa Clara on March 10, 2023. Federal authorities swooped in and seized the assets of the bank, a key lender to start-ups since the 1980s, after a run on deposits caused its collapse. (Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images)

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