COMMENT | When it comes to national debt, discussing it intelligently and accurately is like walking through a minefield - take the wrong steps and you blast wrong information off to a multitude of unsuspecting people, most of whom know little about the subject.

When Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said unequivocally that debt has been reduced, as he did in a Bernama report quoting him on an X video, he was undoubtedly wrong.

What has been achieved...