Common Sense Investing Practices Could Have Prevented SVB’s Failure — In Ernest Hemingway’s classic 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises, Bill Gorton asks Mike Campbell, “How did you go bankrupt?” Campbell replies, “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” That’s what happened recently with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), and its parent SVB Financial Group. With over $200 billion in assets, it was…