"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” With this infamous line from the 1987 classic Wall Street, the fictional CEO Gordon Gekko summed up private equity culture, suggesting corporate greed could even provide the motivation to save “that other malfunctioning corporation called the U.S.A.” So, nearly 40 years on, have private equity firms saved America? Far from it, says Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Must Read In a video uploaded to her website, Warren argues “private equity guts everything” — from Red ...