David Bloom, a currency strategist at HSBC, a bank, draws a clear lesson from all this.

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One of the things we missed most when I dropped out of the race was seeing David Bloom each day.

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"There are still players, but there aren't the numbers out there anymore, " said David Bloom, a scout with the Baltimore Orioles.

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David Bloom, for example, of HSBC, predicts that 2013 will be the year in which the currency's "underlying frailties will be exposed".

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David Bloom was a very special man.

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