After the winding-up by the second finance minister on the budget debate at the committee level in the Dewan Rakyat on Nov 11, I felt compelled to write my two-cent worth of thought on our economy.

For a start, the news about China’s stimulus package of US$586 billion, or RM2.1trillion, not capable of counteracting the effect of the US-led slowdown and that the euphoric rally observed in the Asian bursas could only last for a day, which was Monday, are indeed very frightening.