These loans resemble the subprime mortgages that led to the financial crisis.

The automaker recalled another 700,000 vehicles today.

General Motors isn't using liability insurance to pay ignition switch claims.

And it'll cost the automaker another $1.2 billion.

GM has recalled 20 million vehicles this year.

General Motors CEO Mary Barra responds.

David Gura sits down with Felix Salmon, from Reuters, and Catherine Rampell, from The Washington Post, to wrap up the week.

And yes, there's a flap unfolding

GM is now free of the U.S. government holding at stake in it, and has named a new chief executive, its first woman but a GM lifer.

Mary Barra, the current global head of product development at GM, will become chief executive in January.