Related: http://www.npr.org/series/248799434/planet-moneys-t-shirt-pr...
NPR's Planet Money podcast created a T-shirt and attempted to follow it every step of it's economic journey. An interesting look into the gears and cogs of global manufacturing of an everyday object.
Also related: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/26/491342091/plane...
Planet Money buys a barrel of crude oil and follows its journey through the various actors and entities in between pumping it out of the ground and selling it as a final product.