Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Esther George said she still wants to see more data before the central bank’s next policy-setting meeting on September 18, paying special attention to any impacts of the ongoing trade war.

“There have continued to be concerns, uncertainty around trade,” George told Yahoo Finance on the sidelines of the Kansas City Fed-hosted Jackson Hole conference. “That factors into that. I think it's too soon to judge how the real economy is going to be affected.”

George, a voting member of this year’s Federal Open Market Committee, dissented against the Fed’s July 31 decision to cut interest rates by 25 basis points. In her dissent she said incoming data would have to “point to a weakening economy” before she could support interest rate cuts.

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George told Yahoo Finance the data received since the Fed’s last meeting have been “mixed.” In contrast to weakness in business fixed investment, George pointed to estimate-beating retail sales numbers for the month of July.

“I'll be watching the data up until the time that meeting starts,” George said.

One data point that has caught a lot of attention since the last Fed meeting: the inverting yield curve. On August 14, the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury dipped below the yield on the 2-year U.S. Treasury for the first time since 2007, just before the financial crisis. This type of “yield curve inversion” has a strong track record of predicting downturns; an inversion has preceded the last seven of seven recessions dating back to 1969.

George said policymakers need to be “careful” reacting to the yield curve, which broadly measures investor sentiment of the economic future in the U.S. Although she acknowledged that inversions are a decent predictor of a recession, she said pressures on U.S. yields may be the result of international pressure.

“Right now, although I'm always careful to say ‘this time is different,’ I think there are some factors when you look at the rest of the world and the weaknesses in some of those economies,” George said. “That could be playing into why we see long-term rates so low.”

Scoring Powell’s communication

Although George did not hint at whether or not she would support cuts in the Fed’s next meeting, she acknowledged concerns over Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s efforts to communicate its policy to the public.

“Certainly as the policy choices become more difficult, the challenges arise on how to communicate that,” George said. “I think he has done a good job of trying to express how the committee arrives at its decisions.”