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A Claire's store in Toronto is pictured.
After a brief 2022 reemergence, mall boutique Claire's filed for its second bankruptcy in August.
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Welcome back, readers. I'm Phil Rosen, writing to you from New York. 

Now that it's April, we can say a spate of banks collapsed last month, but the repercussions of the crisis continue to unfold as if it all happened yesterday. 

The chatter now centers around a looming credit crunch —  but the troubling part is that red flags were flying well before we heard a peep from Silicon Valley Bank.