Former Guthrie chairperson Khalid Ibrahim elaborates on the poor grasp of economics among political leaders, a budget that has a ballooning operations expenditure and whether it was necessary to build Putrajaya in concluding his interview with malaysiakini .

Khalid, who served under then premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad, also describes the contradictory nature of his former boss, who launched a scathing attack against Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's administration in May.