The example below is similar to the one I presented last year in You Can't Rescue the
Financial System if You Can't Read a Balance Sheet, but makes
allowance for the fact that
assets continue to be impaired due to policy failures, and that deposit banks such
as Citigroup use more bond financing than investment banks.
However, I believe that RGGI
allowance management is different because the affected sources do not treat
allowances as a storable commodity or a
financial asset in the usual sense of the term.