To say that the U.S. economy benefits from trade is not to say that every individual American worker or family benefits, or that the structural changes induced by trade are not disruptive,
The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities.
One would be forgiven for concluding that the assumed benefits of financial innovation are not all they were cracked up to be.