Pump and Dump 5 February 2010, Cervera de los Montes A4 (29,7 x 21,0 cm) Acrylic color, watercolor, pencil, color pencil and felt-tip pen on letter-head paper i Pump and dump is a form of microcap stock fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive statements, in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price. Once the operators of the scheme "dump" their overvalued shares, the price falls and investors lose their money. The figure is Dig'em Frog, the mascot of Honey Smacks, a sweetened puffed wheat breakfast cereal made by Kellogg's. A taboo is a strong social prohibition relating to any area of human activity or social custom that is sacred and forbidden based on moral judgment and sometimes even religious beliefs. Private collection, Madrid. Tags: hotel, economy, taboo 411 / 779