The European Central Bank will stop printing money by the end of the year, but should do so much sooner, a majority of economists polled by Reuters said, citing a solid and synchronized growth outlook for the currency bloc. The debate on the central bank ending its quantitative easing (QE) program has now moved to when rather than should. That is largely driven by robust growth expectations with upgrades for a majority of the euro zone economies in the latest Reuters poll of over 100 economists taken Jan 11-19. “The ECB should not have run such a big and extended QE program in the first place, but given that they ... (full story)