This is getting painful to watch. He is right, you are wrong. He isn’t being pedantic, he is being precise. “A public company is one that issues shares that ar

This is getting painful to watch. He is right, you are wrong. He isn’t being pedantic, he is being precise. “A public company is one that issues shares that are publicly traded, meaning the shares are available for anyone to buy and sell on the open market, usually very easily. Note that publicly traded companies are not publicly owned -- they are not owned or controlled by any government.” https://www.fool.com/terms/p/publicly-traded-companies https://www.fool.com/terms/p/publicly-traded-companies