Stock is equity in a company. A stock market is where, by and large, publicly listed stock is traded. So why then, all this talk of bonds and governments? Most

Stock is equity in a company. A stock market is where, by and large, publicly listed stock is traded. So why then, all this talk of bonds and governments? Most debt does not trade on a stock market, but via other mechanisms. The author doesn’t have a good definition of “stock” which is worrisome in the extreme.