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Here's your money briefing for Tuesday, August 29.

I'm JR Whalen for the Wall Street Journal.

We make financial decisions every day.

Whether we're swiping a credit card at the store, paying the rent, or deciding where to eat dinner.

But recent studies have shown that there's a specific age when we're more likely to make the smartest financial decisions.

You know, your ability to understand what's going on in the markets with investments,

real basic things like inflation, pricing, savings.

So what's the magic number? And what can people of any age do to make better money decisions?

We'll go through the numbers with the WSJ's Claire Ansbury. That's after the break.

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Most adults are faced with making good financial choices almost every day.

But it turns out as a particular age when people tend to make their best financial decisions.

Wall Street Journal reporter Claire Ansbury reviewed studies conducted by Australia's arc center of excellence in population aging research,

as well as the National University of Singapore. And she joins me now.

So Claire, just to make sure we know what we're talking about, what do we mean when we say good financial decision making?

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