“Sin taxes” on alcohol and sugar are not enough, warns economic researchers in “ZiB 2”

Economic researcher Holger Bonin was able to do so in the very last ZiB 2 of the old year did not exude any real optimism for 2025: “Well, we can’t be sure” that things will improve economically at all in the coming year. But the director of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) got to the heart of what was at stake with a small slip of the tongue: Things have to get better, and this requires trust in improvement. Maybe that’s what he meant when he mistakenly spoke of “optimism.” And no, the topic is too serious to make fun of small slips of the tongue.