Bill Murphy first worked in the futures industry as a commodities broker. He worked for Shearson Hayden Stone and Drexel Burnham before starting up his own brokerage in New York. In 1998 he opened up lemetropolecafe.com, a financial market website geared to the gold market. In 1999 Bill became chairman of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) to expose the manipulation of the gold price by The Gold Cartel. He chaired The GATA African Gold Summit in Durban, South Africa in 2001, and in 2005 chaired Gold Rush 21 in Dawson City, Canada, a historic conference held in the Yukon to expose the manipulation of the gold market.