birth data. Adams was well paid by her clients for her predictions. She was said to successfully predict changes in the stock market. However, author Carol Krismann noted that: Skeptics point out that Adams had no knowledge of economics and that her predictions were always fuzzy, foretelling disaster but not specific disasters, and telling that the market would go up when in fact the country was in a period of remarkable growth in the stock market. People who believed often forgot the erroneous predictions and used the ones that happened to come true to "prove" that she was accurate. Adams' most infamous failed prediction was that the "stocks might climb to heaven" a few weeks before the 1929 crash. Investment analyst Kenneth Fisher has written that her few successful predictions were publicized whilst her misses were ignored by those desperate to believe. He described Adams as an "obvious quack with no real investment knowledge." Notes References External links , from the TV series 'Secrets in the Stars' (1999) narrated by Leonard Nimoy. 1868 births 1932 deaths American astrologers American astrological writers 19th-century astrologers 20th-century astrologers 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 19th-century American women writers 19th-century American writers American women non-fiction writers