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Henry Dubroff

Henry Dubroff is the chairman, editor and majority owner of the Pacific Coast Business Times.


| Thursday, December 17th, 2015

City National bank CEO heralds Fed decision to raise rates

Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Latest news, Top Stories

The Federal Reserve’s Dec. 16 decision to begin the long process of normalizing short-term interest rates got a thumbs up from one of Southern California’s most influential bankers. City National Bank CEO Russell Goldsmith heralded the decision to raise the benchmark short-term rate to 25 basis points from zero — the first rate hike in Read More →

| Friday, December 11th, 2015

Low gas prices great for tri-county consumers but not all businesses

Columns, Energy, Latest news

Market disruptions have consequences. And the downward spiral in oil prices looks like the sort of disruption that could have far-ranging consequences. For one thing, we may be at the dawn of a decade where baby-boom era memories of gasoline lines fade and global demand for petroleum products is suppressed as China’s appetite for commodities Read More →

| Friday, November 27th, 2015

Dubroff: Small business owners not as optimistic as they should be

Columns, Tri-County Economy

Despite the growing hype around Small Business Saturday, the promotion developed by American Express that’s gotten some traction in the past few years, the nation’s small business owners aren’t really that happy a bunch. Writing in a Nov. 13 report, Scott Anderson, the chief economist for Bank of the West, notes that one recent indicator Read More →

| Friday, November 20th, 2015

Dignity Health investment in Central Coast paying off

Columns, Health Care & Life Science, Latest news

During the past five years, Dignity Health has made methodical moves to bolster the healthcare system in North Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. That strategy has paid off in improved patient care and better facilities. Now health care is emerging as an industry that attracts talent and capital. It’s an industry that has Read More →

| Friday, November 13th, 2015

Dubroff: UCSB grad school will help tech managers innovate in digital age

Central Coast, Columns, Latest news, Technology

The Central Coast has a growing reputation as a cool place for startups. But amid dozens of new ventures and talk of a tech-centric future looms the reality of growing a fully functional technology company. Listening to the earnings calls for AppFolio and MindBody, which recently had successful IPOs, you begin to realize just how Read More →

| Friday, November 6th, 2015

Dubroff: Region’s road warriors weary of business in the slow lane

Columns

  When mudslides shut Interstate Highway 5 through the Grapevine in mid-October, the effect on the Central Coast was immediate and severe. Thousands of cars and trucks had little choice but to travel via Highway 101 and they clogged the route from Ventura to Santa Barbara — a trip that takes 30 minutes in light Read More →

| Friday, October 30th, 2015

Dubroff: Obama administration’s anti-trust efforts failing in Tri-Counties

Columns, Latest news

Monopoly is a fun game — as long as you’re the winner. And so it is in the actual game of business, where monopoly has become the all-too-frequent outcome of mergers and acquisitions. It happened just a few months ago in the grocery business. Office supplies and pharmacies could be next. The grocery saga is Read More →