WHAS - News - Business http://www.whas11.com/news/business RSS Feed for WHAS - News - Business en-us Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:00:38 GMT Founder of Louisville's Republic Bank dies http://www.whas11.com/news/business/Found-of-Louisvilles-Republic-Bank-dies-139133879.html Bernard Trager, the man behind one of Louisville’s most successful business stories died Friday afternoon at the age of 83-years-old. Trager founded Republic in 1982. Bloomberg Business Page http://www.whas11.com/news/business/111944184.html Obama budget: New spending with recycled tax ideas http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139157164.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is focusing on re-election themes such as jobs and public works projects in President Barack Obama's new budget blueprint while relying on familiar but never enacted tax increases on the wealthy and corporations to reduce future deficits after four years of trillion dollar-plus shortfalls. Obama budget seeks to boost trade enforcement http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139155934.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's new budget proposal will ask Congress to devote millions of dollars for a new trade enforcement center and more U.S. inspectors in China as the administration takes aim at unfair trade practices abroad, a senior administration official said Saturday. Greece's grim choice: deep budget cuts or default http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139152449.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Why would Greece accept more pain when unemployment is at 21 percent, the economy is enduring its fifth year of recession and rioters are hurling gasoline bombs in the streets of Athens? NY cable dispute blacks out Knicks, 4 NHL teams http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139152439.html NEW YORK (AP) — As the glow fades from the Giants' Super Bowl win, some New York sports fans are focusing on basketball and hockey. Republic Bancorp founder Bernard Trager dies at 83 http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139135664.html LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials say Bernard Trager, the founder and chairman of Republic Bancorp Inc., has died. He was 83. Justice Department calls Swiss Bank a "fugitive" http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139124674.html NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department is calling Switzerland's largest private bank a fugitive from justice after it didn't show up for a court hearing in New York. Under fire, Obama adjusts his birth control policy http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139090594.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead. Ill. man gets 3 years in erectile pump case http://www.whas11.com/news/business/139135709.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An Illinois man was sentenced Friday by a federal judge in Rhode Island to more than three years in prison for shipping unwanted penis enlargers to diabetes patients as part of a larger fraud scheme that prosecutors say bilked $2.2 million from Medicare over four years.