washingtona slew of highstakes deadlines will collide on capitol hill this week setting up potentially chaotic negotiations against the backdrop of expiring government funding and the threat of a possible us default even by the standards of a capitol used to operating under pressure this weeks maelstrom of legislative and fiscal crosscurrents is setting the stage for an extraordinary sprint democratic leaders are trying to shepherd two complicated legislative packages a roughly 1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and a sprawling healthcare education and climate package whose proposed 35 trillion price tag and contents are still under intense debate within the party warehouse operators are throwing every tool they can at increasingly urgent efforts to hire seasonal workers as they brace for an expected flood of holiday goods amid competition for scarce labor from deeppocketed rivals logistics providers are boosting pay adding flexibility to shifts blanketing social media with recruitment ads and even shipping in more robots to help workers field surging ecommerce volumes they are also jockeying with titans like amazoncom inc walmart inc and united parcel service inc that are dangling inducements from signing bonuses to assistance with college tuition as they push to bring on hundreds of thousands of workers ahead of the holidays bitcoin miners under fire for their sizable environmental footprint are forging partnerships with owners of struggling nuclearpower plants with electricity to spare the matchups have the potential to solve key issues facing each industry executives and analysts say electricityhungry bitcoin miners want stable and carbonfree power while nuclear plants facing competition from cheaper power sources need new customers shares of robinhood markets inc had mostly disappointed the trading apps fans since their initial public offering but harsh patel felt sure that was about to change mr patel a 27yearold nurse in columbus ohio figured its price would rise after he saw chatter about robinhood light up a stock market chatboard so on aug 4 he paid 600 for a call optiona contract that confers the right though not the obligation to purchase 100 shares at a stated price by a certain date a buyout boom fueled by easy money and a looming hike in the capitalgains tax is sweeping wall street deal making to highs not seen since before the 2008 financial crisis companies have issued 120 billion of leveraged loans this year through sept 23 to finance corporate buyouts by privateequity firmsjust shy of the 124 billion record for the first nine months of the year set in 2007 according to data from sp global market intelligences lcd labor shortages and supplychain disruptions have become makeorbreak factors for some investors weighing bets on corporate debt tom murphy portfolio manager and head of global investmentgrade credit at columbia threadneedle said the asset manager is placing companies in two buckets those that can offset increased wages bottlenecks and shortages with higher prices and those that cant without losing business that has him avoiding packagedgoods makers and department stores prudential plc will raise 24 billion by issuing new shares proceeds of which will be used by the insurer to redeem highcoupon debt due in six months and invest for growth the uk insurer will sell 1308 million new shares in the hong kong offer at a maximum price of 1438 hong kong dollars per share us1846 prudential said late sunday all times in gmt powered by kantar media and dow jones write to us at newslettersdowjonescom we offer an enhanced version of this briefing that is optimized for viewing on mobile devices and sent directly to your email inbox if you would like to sign up please go to httpsnewspluswsjcomsubscriptions this article is a text version of a wall street journal newsletter published earlier today