The author starts with 8 paragraphs on gold, and the word gold is mentioned 33 times throughout the article, spread about evenly throughout. By no means did the author "move on" from talking about gold, let alone "quickly".

The concluding paragraph is a recomendation for hard money as a % of your porfolio, making the case for gold is the raison d'etre for the entire post.

even that is too much for a rock that returns very low for a decade. return of below inflation is only a rock would make it possible