[jt2190]

To put some context on this, this is a “think piece”, not an official position of a large multi-national bank:

> Deutsche Bank says its research is designed to spark debate around a series of important topics.

> Report author Mr Templeman said he'd had a lot of feedback on the report. "A lot of people aren't impressed at the idea of another tax, however, some have seen it as an interesting policy that governments can use to redistribute some of the gains from the pandemic which have been unexpectedly accrued by some people while others have lost out."

[saalweachter]

The colloquial term for this sort of defense is "JAQing off"; "I'm just asking questions, you can't get mad at me for just asking questions."