[pclmulqdq]

What's bizarre is that this is a particularly big bank to be going under. Most of the ones that die are tiny because banks have a real economy of scale here.

Lehman and Washington Mutual were truly exceptional cases in the 2008 crisis, and SVB may be right there with them in a few weeks.

[Asparagirl]

2008 also had IndyMac and Wachovia[1] and a whole lot of regional banks, which were not small either.

[1] which technically didn't fail but had its retail banking operations forcibly absorbed by Citigroup in an overnight shotgun wedding officiated by the FDIC, but hey who's counting

[pclmulqdq]

You can also add Bear Stearns to that list. Another "rescue" merger of a large-cap bank.

[icelancer]

WaMu failing was so strange.

[kragen]

most banks that fail are tiny because most banks are tiny