a disaster for america as rising suicide rates now a test. but for silicon valley, it made for an epic pay day and then epic payday was soon reflected epically on the balance sheets of his biggest local lenders, which was called silicon valley bank in 2018 cfib had about forty nine billion dollars on deposit. three years later, that same bank had amassed more than one hundred and eighty nine billion. that is a gargantuan increase in deposits over a very short period of time. well, certainly dramatic enough to have raised a very serious question and an obvious one . what was silicon valley banking to do with all that money? even the san francisco bay area, it would be hard to find qualified borrowers for one hundred and eighty nine billion dollars. you could not responsibly loan all of that money even if you wanted to . so what would you do with it now? that s a question you would have asked if you were paying attention both from inside svp or from the federal regulatory agenc