This was a good week for him to break through. He was one of three players who moved into the top 54 in the Charles Schwab Cup to advance to the second postseason event next week in Arkansas.

As we have seen in the previous columns in this series, manufacturing employment is a better predictor of economic development than manufacturing output.

The daughter of Charles Schwab’s co-chairman and founder, Charles R. Schwab, plans to sell more than $18 million of the ...