QE has become a bull market phenomenon. Central banks have spent all their “tools” to fight deflation and contraction with precious little to show for it. Look out below!

http://www.dlacalle.com/the-ecb-must-stop-its-qe-program-now-here-is-why/

The growth figures of the European economy are good, and manufacturing indices are expanding. But they were already in expansion before QE was launched. The European manufacturing PMI is at six-year highs, the expected growth for 2017 will be 1.7% and 1.8% for 2018, unemployment will fall to 9.4% and 8.9% in 2017 and 2018 respectively, and growth of investment and credit is close to 2.5%. However, inflation by decree has been a failure, rising in energy and food prices and poor in core underlying inflation, a consequence of accumulated overcapacity and poor productivity.
You could say that these good growth figures are because of the ECB policy, but Europe was already expanding and recovering before they bought a single bond. Europe has been improving for five years. But that is not the debate. Even if we assume, for a moment, that the ECB policy has “worked” -despite 1.2 trillion euro of excess liquidity and high-risk bonds at the lowest rates in thirty-five years- the ECB must stop the monetary laughing gas urgently, for several reasons: