Sean Gregory

Sean Gregory is a TIME staff writer who has covered sports extensively over the last decade. He has penned profiles on athletes ranging from LeBron James, Novak Djokovic, Usain Bolt and Eli Manning, and explored issue like football's concussion crisis, and the treatment of young baseball players in the Dominican Republic. Sean has covered the the last four Olympic Games, and filed dispatches from Super Bowls, the NBA Finals, and the World Series for TIME. A native of the Bronx, N.Y., Sean enjoys firing lots of shots in pickup basketball games.

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Don’t Get Too Cheery Over Consumer Confidence

By Sean GregoryJan. 25, 20110

Americans won’t fully open their wallets until there are more jobs (photo: Fred Prouser/REUTERS)

January’s consumer confidence number just trickled in, and it’s better than anticipated. The headline index rose to 60.3, from 53.3 in December: the market expected it to come in at 54.0. That’s an 8-month high, and the strongest …