It has been somewhat of a puzzle that Obama's economists haven't rebelled at his Administration's assault on the US economy. Economics is, after all, economics. Finally!
In today's NYTimes, Christina Romer, former head of Obama's Council of Economic Advisors, questions the necessity of the minimum wage. She not only wonders openly about increasing the minimum wage, but questions the very idea of minimum wage legislation.
Romer is right that the minimum wage is not the way to go. While she doesn't go far enough to oppose the minimum wage outright, it is hard to see her op-ed piece as anything but a plea for sanity and clear opposition to Obama's recent call for a minimum wage increse.
