and titans many charged with being woke, but the fact of the matter was, it was a bank that made the wrong bet on treasuries at the wrong time and bought tens of billions of those, the price of treasuries went down and flat-footed while people wanted their money. now it s in receivership and run by the federal deposit insurance corporation. it s a dramatic played out amidst talk there could be other problems out there. kelly o grady has more from los angeles. kelly. good morning to you, neil. yes, it s the second biggest banking collapse in u.s. history. the first major one since 2008 and it all happened in the span of 48 hours, what started this is svb found its self short on cash. the stock was plummeting. invests warned they might not be able to raise money and a bank run and loss of clients and simultaneously tried to withdraw fund. and the regulators have taken over it and insured depositors will gain access by monday. fallout could be dire. roughly 50% of venture capi
some are hoping that a white knight might swoop in. and elon musk said could look into a digital bank. and most banks have been under tighter safeguards since 2008 and svb was making that on bonds. i used to work on the that side and we were wondering when the bubble would burst. neil: thank you. kelly on that. shark thing was telling me that he thinks that this is not a fed problem that this was unique to this bank, so it s silicon valley bank problem. take a look. the reason this bank went to zero is very old-fashioned reason, poor management.