General Motors earnings are up by 157%. They made $2.87 billion in the second quarter of this year.
This is up from $1.1 billion last year.
“General Motors continues to be on a roll,” said Detroit News business columnist Daniel Howes.
Howes said CEO Mary Barra is now trying to convince the investment community General Motors is an “earning machine.”
However, earlier this month a federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled that the General Motors bankruptcy does not protect it from lawsuits over the ignition-switch defect. Lawyers during that hearing were talking about $10 billion in claims.
“There are clearly offsets,” Howes said.
Howes says that, as we have seen with Volkswagen, the contemporary American legal system is going to hold manufacturers accountable.
“[General Motors is] going to have to continue to work their way through this,” he said.
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GUEST Daniel Howes is business columnist and associate business editor of The Detroit News.
