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.

	Right type of investments
	Mahathir’s ego